Human Rights lobby group, J-FLAG, is renewing calls for the government to urgently amend the buggery law.
In a statement yesterday, J-FLAG said 80 per cent of buggery victims in cases reported to the Jamaica Constabulary Force, JCF, between 2016 and 2020, are children.
It noted that the statistics are contained in the second updated research by J-FLAG into the status of sections 76 to 79 of the Offences Against The Person Act commonly referred to as the buggery law.
It said the report revealed that children were victims in 286 of the 358 buggery cases reported to the JCF, while women were victims in 55 and men in 17.
Interim Executive Director of J-FLAG, Glenroy Murray told our news centre yesterday that the buggery law provides very little protection to people who try to use it.
He argued that if a boy is raped by his male relatives, this is not considered incest under the law.
Glenroy Murray, Interim Executive Director of J-FLAG.
J-FLAG is a human rights and social justice organisation advocating for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, LGBT, people since December 1998.
