Police investigators are appealing to residents to provide information surrounding the death of a teen in St. Ann.
The body of 14-year-old Raven Wilson of Top Road in St. Ann’s Bay was discovered with a wound to the face, in a garbage bag in her community, yesterday.
Counsellors from the Education Ministry visited the school this morning to lend support to schoolmates and staff.
Head of the St. Ann Police SSP Michael Smith says investigators revisited the top road community this morning and additional evidence was recovered.
He is hoping that it may point the investigation into the right direction.
A motive has not yet been determined in the school girl’s killing.
The teen was reported missing last Friday, when she did not return home after leaving for school that morning.
The St. Ann commanding officer is renewing his call for residents, to tell the police what they know about this incident.
Meantime, State Minister for Youth Floyd Green, is describing the recent killing of 14-year old Raven Wilson as cruel, inhumane and barbaric.
In a statement this afternoon, the minister said he is disturbed by the killing of yet another promising young girl, whose life was cut short by cold and heartless criminals.
He points out that the level of violence being meted out against children needs to stop, because it is robbing them of their right to life.
Making reference to the recent spate of child murders, the minister says the government wants to send a clear message to these perpetrators that there will be no safe haven for them.
A team of first responders from the Child Protection and Family Services Agency was dispatched to initiate grief counselling to relatives of the deceased and community members.
The team visited the Ocho Rios High School to conduct counselling sessions with affected children, followed by a home visit during the course of the week.
And, the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) is expressing concern about the increasing number of children going missing, those being killed and the frequent reports of the brutal attacks on school aged children.
The association condemns the killing of Wilson and says it stands ready to assist the government and civil society in whatever way possible to devise strategies to curb attacks on the nation’s children.
Meantime, Founder of Hear the Children’s Cry, Betty-Ann Blaine, is again lamenting government’s failure, to arrange a summit to find solutions to protect the nation’s children.
Mrs. Blaine is questioning whether the socio-economic background of the children affected, has anything to do with the prime minister’s inaction.
Mrs. Blaine says, nearly forty children have been murdered across the island since January.