A minor under 12 years old has been arrested and charged in Trinidad and Tobago for allegedly sexually and physically abuse a dozen children in a children’s home for a period of six yearslocal media reported this Monday.

He was the manager of the ‘Couva Children’s Home and Crisis Center Nursery’, Kerri-Ann Leon Singas well as caretakers of the place, who reported the cases to the media, according to the newspaper Guardian, in the aforementioned Caribbean territory.

The manager and caregivers attempted to transfer the defendant to another location, but the home’s superiors denied the request. From 2018 to present, at least 25 incidents of a sexual nature They were provoked by the suspect against 11 minors and two dogs, according to the employees.

Some of the alleged sexual attacks committed by the accused were touching the most intimate parts of minors with objects, watching other children bathe, forcing others to sleep with him, entering another child’s room and rubbing their genitals in front of others. minors. The first reports of these abuses came in mid-February, after two children, one 5 years old and the other 6 years old, accused the detainee of sexually assaulting them.

The 5-year-old minor confessed to a psychologist the fact of being touched “in a bad way” made him feel sad. Given this, the psychologist told the manager of the children’s home, who subsequently wrote a letter to the authorities to begin the investigation.