Four days after the gruesome murder of schoolboy Videsh Dookran, police have identified people who may be "of interest" in the case, but no arrests have been made to date.
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In the instances where domestic violence victims are too afraid to report abuse, activists are calling on the Government to make law external party reports on domestic violence, which would give the police the right to intervene to save a life.
The call comes in the wake of the country’s fourth domestic violence-related killing for 2021, in which 53-year-old Karen Rauseo was allegedly beaten to death by a close male relative on Tuesday. Her death came after numerous reports to the police by family members about abuse they said Rauseo endured repeatedly. But it was also reported that Rauseo had never made any police reports nor applied for any protection order because she was too afraid.
Professor Dr Gerard Hutchinson, psychiatrist and university lecturer
Even as gender-based violence (GBV) remains one of the most earnest threats facing women in T&T, there were still too many not admitting they were being abused which could be counter-productive in the fight to eliminate violence against women.
This was said by psychiatrist and university lecturer, Professor Dr Gerard Hutchinson while responding to Guardian Media’s question about the importance of clinical intervention in GBV.
In an email response, he wrote: “In many cases, the victims do not admit that their injuries or illnesses were occurring in the context of GBV, which presents the first hurdle.”
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