Cadet recruit reports gang rape at Cadet HQ

She said following the rape act she was threatened and told she would be removed from the training if she reported the matter to the police. The woman said that she underwent severe emotional stress and could not function properly and every time she saw the two suspects while at the Cadet headquarters she would feel sick and depressed. She said on Friday she could take it no more and decided to report the matter so she could get some form of justice.

The woman could not be medically examined and was told to return on Wednesday so she could be taken to a District Medical Officer (DMO) to be examined.

Newsday understands that officers of the Carenage CID are expected to interview the suspects this week and a file will then be forwarded to the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for directions in the matter. The female recruit was advised to continue to report to duties and not be intimidated by anyone.

Sources revealed this is not the first time that female recruits have been sexually assaulted at the headquarters but the matters were never reported because of threats issued to the victims.

In an unrelated matter, a 27-year-old woman of St John Road, St Augustine who was remanded in custody at the Golden Grove prison, Arouca on Tuesday for trafficking in drugs told a senior prisons officer that earlier this month she was walking along Centenary Street, Tunapuna where she was pulled into an abandoned house by a man known to her and was sexually assaulted. The officer alerted the Tunapuna police and the remand prisoner was interviewed and medically examined by a DMO.

Investigations are continuing in that matter.