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MORE victims of rape and other sexual offences are coming forward to report these crimes.
This turn of events is in stark contrast to what existed up to two years ago when some Jamaicans, particularly girls and women from inner city communities controlled by dons, were afraid of the vicious reprisals that would be meted out to anyone who filed such reports to the police.
The arm of the police force that has been established to probe sexual offences and child abuse has reported that more victims — both in urban and rural Jamaican communities — are taking steps to ensure that the perpetrators of such crimes are brought to justice.
"A lot of persons are coming forward now more than ever to report carnal abuse and rape, which is one of the reasons why we have seen the increase in the reported cases of rapes for last year," said head of the Centre for the Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse (CISOCA), Superintendent Gladys Brown-Campbell.
"We have more sensitisation programmes going around and people are less fearful now," she said.
While not prepared to divulge the current figures to the Sunday Observer, in keeping with strict Jamaica Constabulary Force protocol, Brown-Campbell attributed the development to the fact that people are no longer afraid of dons.
She said this may be due to the fact that many of these community leaders who traditionally control their community through fear, are being rounded up by the security forces in the campaign which began with the Tivoli Gardens operation in May 2010, mounted in an effort to apprehend accused crime lord Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.
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