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I am sure that most Jamaicans are appalled at the rape and murder of a little 10-year-old girl – Shani Coke – in Troy, Trelawny, on July 21. The alleged perpetrator is a convicted sex offender who had previously been arrested for buggery in Portland in 2014, sexual touching of a child in Trelawny in 2017, and another buggery offence in Trelawny in 2019. He served five years at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre for the 2019 conviction before being released in August 2025. No one saw him commit the offence, but a mob applied jungle justice and he was chopped to death the same day.
I don’t at all approve of jungle justice; but clearly there are some who don’t approve of child sex abuse.
Eleven-year-old Ananda Dean went missing on September 17, 2008. She was last seen leaving her school in Whitehall, St. Andrew. Her body was found less than two weeks later. Ananda Dean – only 11 years old – had been raped and murdered. No one has yet been charged.
These are not isolated cases. I am sure readers can recall other cases that triggered public outrage at the time.
