The Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) group announced on Friday that it is working to coordinate services and help for child survivors of domestic homicide.
Director of CADVA Dianne Madray said under the new project the group has already began working with eight families across the country and is collecting data of surviving children in fatal domestic violence relationships.
Among those families are relatives and the surviving child of Babita Sarjou, whose skeletal remains were recently dug up from her ex-husband’s yards, six years after she went missing.
CADVA had worked alongside the mother and relatives of Sarjou to have the case reopened which later led to the gruesome discovery and the arrest and charge of her ex – husband.
Ms. Madray said some of the children who survive these cases are as young as one-year-old but attention is also being given to teenagers and early adults.
“Children living in domestic violence homes can suffer harm for several years to come,” she declared, as she also disclosed that the group is working with the Child Care and Protection Agency to ensure that the children of domestic homicide cases get a chance to live meaningful lives.
The group has also partnered with 2016 Miss World Guyana participant and winner of the Beauty with a Purpose project, Marva Langevine to assist these children.
Ms. Langevine will be CADVA’s ambassador on this new project since her platform in the pageant sought to find coping mechanisms to help children grieving for a lost parent.
The group also used Friday’s press conference to call for a reopening of the Sheema Mangar case.
Mangar died just after she was robbed of her mobile phone during September, 2010 in Georgetown.
The bank employee had attempted to chased the perpetrator, who ran her down with his car. No one has been arrested or charged with the crime. (by Kurt Campbell)
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