UPDATE: The police are lying, mother of trimmed Rastafari children insists
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The mother of the two Rastafarian children who allegedly had their locks trimmed while in the custody of the Gordon Town police says that claims by the cops that their aunt is responsible for trimming them and feeding them meat are totally false.
The police in a statement last evening denied trimming the boys saying instead that their aunt took them to the barber and offered them food.
The children were reportedly taken into police custody following reports that they were being kept out of school.
Read: Gordon Town police refute reports they trimmed Rastafarian children
But the children’s mother and spouse of Reggae artiste JahDore, this morning, insisted that the police are lying.
“My sister and two other persons [aunt and cousin] were in the yard when the police got there. They left the yard long before the three police took my children. When we got to the station my aunt, my sister and my cousin were at the station…
I am very upset because the police are claiming that I gave my sister custody of my children when I did not even speak to her. They had me and Sean [JahDore] in two separate rooms away from the children,” the distraught mother said.
JahDore, in his response to the police claims, also reaffirmed that he too witnessed his two step-sons being placed in the police service vehicle — in the custody of one uniformed female and two male police officers, one in uniform and one in plain clothes. Neither did the aunt or any family member accompany them [he and his spouse] to the police station.
The mother further insisted, ”I did not give anybody any permission to trim or feed my kids and the police had no right to give my kids to anyone without my consent.”
”My kids are traumatised about it and them crying all the time because they don’t understand why they cut their hair.”
“This is a gross violation of my family’s human rights,” JahDore, a Rastafarian expressed.
“My kids are home schooled and that is completely legal,” the Reggae singer asserted.