March 3, 2025
Dr Sandra Dean-Patterson speaks during a press conference where the Bahamas Crisis Centre presented the Good Samaritan Award to Delano Clarke at the Ministry of National Security on February 28, 2025. Photo: Dante Carrer/Tribune Staff
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Over 200 children sought help for sexual abuse last year
MORE than 200 children sought help from the Bahamas Crisis Centre in 2025 after experiencing sexual abuse, underscoring what its director said is a continuing failure to adequately protect victims or prevent abuse in The Bahamas.
180 child sex abuse cases reported to Crisis Centre in past year
The Bahamas Crisis Centre has reported that 180 children, aged between 2 and 17, were referred for sexual assault over the past 11 months.
Lack of labs delaying justice for rape victims
THE lack of a national forensic lab — which the government has called too costly — is leaving rape victims in The Bahamas waiting months for critical DNA testing, a delay that Bahamas Crisis Centre director Dr Sandra Dean-Patterson says denies survivors justice and retraumatises them in court.
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