Thursday, June 19, 2014
YOUTH and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna yesterday sought advice from Attorney General Patrick Atkinson on what legal recourse can be sought by her ministry against human rights lobby group Jamaicans for Justice (JFJ) for manuals used in its sex education programme that targeted wards of six privately operated children's homes.
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| YOUTH and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna |
The manuals, used in JFJ's 'Healthy Sexual Growth and Development in Marginalised Youth: Rights, Responsibilities and Life Skills' programme, were found to include age-inappropriate oral, anal and vaginal penetration lessons under the guise of 'tolerance'.
In a press release yesterday, Hanna said she had also referred the manuals used by the rights group in its unauthorised sexual education programme to the attention of Children's Advocate Diahann Gordon Harrison.
"Minister Hanna is committed to doing all within her power to ensure there is never a recurrence of this breach of the protection of the children in state care from inappropriate content as well as this betrayal of the trust of the children by those employed to look after their best interests," the ministry said.
Hanna, at the same time, said she has given strict instructions to the Child Development Agency (CDA) to immediately sharpen its monitoring functions.
Hanna has come under fire from several quarters, including Opposition Spokesman Olivia 'Babsy' Grange, for being in the dark about the contents of the manuals. more
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