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  • 10 months ago
A file is to be sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions on investigations by police, involving elderly abuse in Tobago. This from Senior Superintendent of Police Earl Elie during an interview with TV6'S Elizabeth Williams, on elderly abuse cases in Tobago.
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00:00The investigation is ongoing. We will submit our files to the DPP for advice and a steady way forward.
00:09Senior Superintendent of Police Earl Elie told TV6 News a number of charges can be laid in the matter.
00:16Well, anytime somebody is keeping you against your will in any location,
00:22we look at offences of possible forced imprisonment and other offences.
00:28So that's why we'll be approaching the DPP for advice.
00:31But I want to strongly encourage persons, especially me, who would have submitted their elderly to these homes,
00:38to please pay attention to them. Don't take it for granted that they are being treated fairly.
00:43Officer Elie told TV6 News other elderly homes in Tobago are being looked at.
00:49Our attention will not just remain focused on this home alone, but we'll be looking at all the other homes for the age
00:55to identify if there are cases similar to this one that needs our investigation.
01:02I would love to see those perpetrators prosecuted to the full point of the law
01:07and those homes shut down. As a matter of fact, if I had my will, I shut down that home weeks ago.
01:13Elie said this month-long investigation by officers in Tobago is far from finished.
01:20An officer has been assigned to do investigations into the report.
01:26Let me tell you, the investigation is ongoing. It's far from finished.
01:30Our intention is to use every portion of the law that is available to us
01:38to bring some kind of justice to these elderly citizens who are allegedly abused.
01:43Elizabeth Williams, TV6 News.
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