Dear Editor,

It is amazing to see the murder of our children become fodder for political platforms or social media.

Children have been molested and abused in Jamaica and communities and family members remain silent because, for many, it has become the norm and it is easier to blame poverty and the Goverment, when the truth is that we are not doing what is necessary to ensure the safety and well-being of our.

In less than three weeks two 14-year-old girls have been brutally murdered under particularly disturbing circumstances.

Then we have a seven-year-old boy who was allegedly brutally raped by a man known to him in his district.

The truth is we have a society of sick, depraved, demented adults who will prey on our children, and sadly not too many of us get the point that this is not a JLP or a PNP isssue. It is a problem for all Jamaicans; one and requires each and every one of us to do something about it. At what point will we get it that neither the Jamaica Labour Party nor the People’s National Party can fix what has been broken for years?

If the news had said gay Jamaican beaten and killed every international agency, every human rights organisation, would be over it like ‘stink on a monkey’, yet the silence from these quarters is deafening, especially the silence of the church.

It now requires Jamaicans to put aside the partisan politics and get to the point where they understand that this takes all of us to fix, as a people and as a country. We need to stop pointing fingers (myself included) and begin to do what is necessary to protect our children.

Michelle Bradshaw

michelleannmariebradshaw@gmail.com