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Delia Cuffy-Weekes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wednesday, November 25, 2020<\/p>\n

Day 1 of 16 days of activism to reject Violence Against Women and girls<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Sir<\/p>\n

Permit me, through this medium to draw to your attention a matter which is long outstanding in relation to the protection of the children of the lovely island state of the Commonwealth of Dominica.<\/p>\n

Seven years ago, on November 25, 2013 I met with you at your office to deliver a petition signed by over 3000 people, supporting the idea of raising the age of consent from sixteen (16) to eighteen (18).\u00a0 The petition was accompanied by a cover letter that, among other things, justified why the age of consent should be increased.\u00a0 You, in the presence of Mr. Emanuel Nanthan, indicated that you understood my point of view and that of all the people who had appended their signatures as a sign of their support, but you were unwilling to take such a decision on your own and would therefore discuss same with your Cabinet of Ministers.\u00a0 I have waited for seven years to see if something would be said to the people of Dominica on this matter but to no avail.<\/p>\n

Mr. Prime Minister, do we still believe that the present and future of this country lies on the shoulders of our youth?\u00a0 Are we being honest when we sing \u201cI believe the children are our future\u201d?\u00a0 Can I interpret the inaction of this government on this important issue to mean that sixteen year old children will continue to have the right to consent to sexual relations when at the same time the State holds parents responsible for providing food, clothing, shelter and education for the same children? Are you aware of the risks associated with children being sexually active?\u00a0 Young girls are at risk of teenage pregnancy and the attendant possible complications especially during difficult child birth.\u00a0 Young people are at risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections, including the dreaded HIV and the increased risk of contracting cervical cancer later on in life.<\/p>\n

Sir, the signature of sixteen year olds is not legally acceptable.\u00a0 This means that they cannot open accounts at financial institutions and would therefore require the signature of an adult, someone eighteen years or older to validate their actions.\u00a0 These are the same young people who are given carte blanche to go out and have \u2018fun\u2019 with whomsoever they please, but in the event of an ensuing pregnancy, the young girl MUST be accompanied by an adult to seek medical attention since it would place the medical practitioner at risk if he\/she were to attend to the child in the absence of an adult.<\/p>\n

Mr. Prime Minister, a sixteen year old child is vulnerable to sexual abuse, grooming and coercion because they are not yet fully mature and the section of the brain responsible for decision making is not yet fully developed.\u00a0 This means that people who would prey on these children encounter very little resistance and abuse of our children may happen without responsible adults being aware, unless something catastrophic happens.\u00a0 The usual cycle is underage sexual activity leading to teenaged pregnancy where the options are an illegal abortion or carrying the baby and either giving it up to someone else or keeping it and facing a life of hardship unless the teenager is very lucky.\u00a0 Most sixteen year olds are still within the education system and pregnancy may be an abrupt end to their education thus decreasing their employability.\u00a0 Many young women end up with a number of children as they struggle to care for those they already have.<\/p>\n

While no action is being taken to protect our young children from sexual exploitation, there was an urgency to take a bill to Parliament to legalize possession of twenty-eight grams of cannabis.\u00a0 Has consideration been given to the fact that this \u2018legal cannabis\u2019 may be used as another tool in the arsenal of the predators against the young people?\u00a0 Is the possession of small amounts of cannabis more urgent than legalizing it for medical use?<\/p>\n

Sir, my own children are long past the stipulated age of consent but some of the children that I am advocating for are the result of underage sexual activity.\u00a0 While many single mothers are out there struggling to make ends meet to provide for their children, they are unable to supervise the children and so they are at the mercy of unscrupulous adults who think nothing of taking advantage of them.\u00a0 A child who would have been nine years old when I launched this petition would now be able to say \u201cyes\u201d to sexual activity.<\/p>\n

I humbly request that some consideration be given to the protection of our children especially from people within our society who know better but refuse to act accordingly.\u00a0 As we enter another season of sixteen (16) days where we focus on rejecting violence against women and girls, I want to highlight the point that allowing children to engage in sexual activity when they are ill equipped to deal with the possible consequences is a form of violence against our children.<\/p>\n

Mr. Prime Minister, let it not be said that the nation of Dominica did not care enough about its children, to protect them from people who would take advantage of their vulnerability. Let us do whatever we can to cushion our \u2018future\u2019 by creating a safer environment where, according to Tasha P, our children can be children. \u00a0In this way we can delay the onset of adult problems until they enter adulthood at the mature age of eighteen.<\/p>\n

Together with all the concerned adults who signed and those who did not have the opportunity to sign but have reached out to put their support firmly behind this move, I ask again for the age of consent to sexual activity be moved from sixteen years to eighteen years, the legal age of adulthood in the Commonwealth of Dominica.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Respectfully<\/p>\n

Delia Cuffy-Weekes<\/p>\n

Concerned Dominican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, November 25, 2020 Day 1 of 16 days of activism to reject Violence Against Women and girls   Sir Permit me, through this medium to draw to your attention a matter which is long outstanding in relation to the…","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":259426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,262,11,77,235,15,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educationyouth","category-gender","category-general","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-letters-to-the-editor","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nOPEN LETTER To the Honourable Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/letters-to-the-editor\/open-letter-to-the-honourable-prime-minister-of-the-commonwealth-of-dominica\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OPEN LETTER To the Honourable Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica - 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