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– mom of boys urges probe, charges over rem

The mother of three of the boys allegedly raped by Muslim scholar Nezaam Ali says that while she is thankful that the preliminary inquiry will be reopened, those responsible for the disappearance of key documents must be identified and placed before the court.

She told Stabroek News on Monday that it was difficult for her to accept that those who played a hand in the delay of the trial will go scot free and called on the police to launch an investigation.

Ali, of 268 Section ‘C’, 5 South Turkeyen, was charged in 2012 with raping nine boys.

The charges alleged that between December 2011 and January 2012, Ali, being a teacher attached to the Turkeyen Masjid, engaged in sexual activity with the children. He was placed on a total of $1,300,000 bail.

Earlier this year, this newspaper reported that the children’s birth certificates and statements were found to be missing from the case file which was in the Supreme Court Registry. The matter was subsequently referred to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). In a press release last month the chambers said that in a letter, dated February 13, 2017, DPP Shalimar Ali-Hack remitted the matter to the magistrate to re-open the paper committals. Further, it said on the same date, the DPP issued a directive to the Guyana Police Force to obtain “certified” copies of the original documents before the reopening of the paper committals.

There is nothing to suggest that the police were instructed to conduct an investigations into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the documents.

Contacted, Commander Calvin Brutus said that while his division was not investigating how the documents came to be missing, he was not sure if the police’s Office of Professional Responsibility was looking at the matter.

The upset mother expressed concern at the police’s apparent lack of interest in finding and holding those responsible, accountable.

“I can’t believe such important documents disappeared and no one can say how or who. I would like an inquiry into this matter,” she said. She expressed disbelief that authorities did not see it fit to launch an investigation into the disappearance.

“How they disappear is equally important as getting the case reopened…. I don’t want in two months’ time you hear again that they can’t find this and c should really be loo move them documen so it could be made of thing will not be Stabroek News.

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Brutus told Stabr police had handed