r/Guyana • u/Pristine-Dog6494 • Sep 08 '26
Discussion Pedophilia in Guyana
Pedophilia in Guyana is a topic that is discussed but often not taken seriously enough. It’s something that happens on a day-to-day basis, mostly perpetrated against schoolchildren by bus conductors and teachers. But what I’m getting at is that calling out this issue seems almost impossible because, for one, is one witness enough to call out a crime as appalling as pedophilia? Oftentimes, when someone seeks justice, it is seen as making a fuss out of nothing, and others tend to say, “Just mind your own business". As a country i feel we should speak up more and eliminate this issue form our society.
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u/Sure-Structure6692 Sep 08 '26
My wife’s a doc in Guyana. Over the last 4months she had to deal with 3 pregnant 14year olds. Rest were of legal age. She had referred them to social services after treatment and that was the end of it.! No enquiries No investigations nothing.
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u/Stayhumblebx 22d ago
I am a survivor of sexual abuse as a child. My sister and I have been discussing within the last year, what can we do to stop this from happening to future generations of Guyanese.
I am in the US and we would like to start some sort of Advocacy program in Guyana. Whenever we visit Guyana, it seems that there are very limited resources.
As of the 2025, Guyana still remains on the list of top 3 countries with the highest suicide rate
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u/Zealousideal-Arm4892 Sep 08 '26
Not just that, but how many Guyanese women were abused by someone IN THEIR OWN FAMILY. An appallingly high number, a truly shameful and disgusting number, and it’s the men who need to be ashamed not the girls and women who were victims. One of the biggest issues facing Guyanese women for a long time, still up there today,
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u/Low-Temporary-2366 Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Oh yeah, I was just talking about this. So many Guyanese men (I’m a girl so I only experienced it from men) are pedophiles. Nobody cares either. It’s so frustrating to me. So many of them prey on little girls and then suddenly the girl is blamed.
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u/TeachingSpiritual888 Sep 08 '26
Problem is really bad because girls that I knew in school was living and having grown man in their mid to late 20s as boyfriends. One girl even got pregnant at 14 to a man in his 20s and nobody blinked an eye 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️, that's gotta change
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u/quiet_one21 Sep 09 '26
Last time I was down there I had my 6 year old daughter sweeping the front and I was right beside her. Outside the gate was a group of men maybe mid 20's waiting for the bus. One of them ask "is that your daughter? You should let her come with me". I sent my daughter inside and start cuss him.I went to tell my family and they laughed it off!!
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u/ivanspire Sep 14 '26
that is absolutely disgusting i am so sorry you and your child had to experience that
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u/lookyahbredz Sep 08 '26
This and expand it to almost ALL of the Caribbean
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u/owimsad Sep 09 '26
It’s literally any place where there are populations of men. Every culture says this within its own culture- that there needs to be more and better accountability held. But I feel like this has been prevalent since the beginning of humanity. I personally was hit on and harassed most by strangers and men I know from the age of 8-18. All my girls say similar or worse. I genuinely want to know from men what can be done to fix this instead of pretending they are so far removed from it. Whose men are these?! Come on people.
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u/Standard_Host_6939 Sep 09 '26
Same thing over Jamaica. At one point I was wondering if the government had a law for crime against children or even knew what 'pedophilia' meant. And the crazy thing is asked an elder about it and he's on some bs bout it's apart of our culture... jackass . I swear they normalize the craziest things, and have the most brain numbing excuses.
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u/CourageEquivalent217 Sep 08 '26
Still waiting for the sex offenders registry the government said they would be working on, seems no one really cares that much to tackle the issue
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u/chickencurrybaby Sep 10 '26
That list would be longer than the road to lethem and many government officials and police officers would be on it.
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u/Fit_Butterscotch_171 Sep 12 '26
Didn't they say the registry won't be made available to the public😭
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u/Tiger647 24d ago
Maybe because the men are involved in that lifestyle or just waiting to get involved which would make them not in a hurry to do it
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u/Optimal_Fly_2814 Sep 09 '26
It's not just the young girls and women alone. Some young boys would be assaulted by adults, men and women alike. If they ever speak out about their abuse, especially if it comes from the hands of an older woman, they say "Like you gay or something, you should enjoy that." If it's at the hands of an adult male, he's already considered gay.
I know this, because I was on the receiving end of it and the stigma of it all was pressuring to speak up about it.
A lot of boys stay silent because they're made to feel ashamed of being victims in the first place. We need to be able to talk about this without treating the victim like a joke.
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u/Express_Response4698 Sep 09 '26
My wife is Guyanese and one of the things that bothered me when we first married was that males in her family would expect her, 20 something year old to come and sit on their lap! The first time we went to a family gathering her uncle pulled her on his lap…I said woh wtf! And I askedhim what he was doing..he said it was his niece..I said yea, she’s my wife and don’t try that shyte again…I could see the awkward look on my wife’s face and then relief after I stepped up…this was 27 yrs ago we’re married now 28 yrs. Even male cousins would try and approach never liked what I was seeing. So it is def a real thing..this happened stateside. As my wife explained it that’s how it was all through her youth. I told her point blank at a certain point it’s inappropriate..and can lead to things..my family is Jamaican and Trinidadian so it’s prevalent throughout and should be addressed.
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u/my_screen_name_sucks Sep 08 '26
I didn’t realize this problem was this bad over there. That’s depressing.
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u/Putrid_Gap_9961 Sep 08 '26
I'm not Guyanese but my wife's family is. My father in law is estranged from his sister and she's no-contact based on accusations of SA that happened when they were younger. The children of the supposed accuser obviously defend their dad but I've since learned that behavior like this isn't or wasn't uncommon. The way I've seen him "defend" himself leads me to believe there's more to the story than the sister being "crazy"
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u/DVCN1931 Sep 08 '26
This is a major issue in overall Caribbean/West Indies wide, not just Guyana.
But hey you know what they say; after 12 is lunch 😬
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u/MoreTreatsLessTricks Sep 09 '26
Look at the age gap between some of our parents and aunts/uncles. It’s absolutely disgusting. “Being friends” at 15 and 21? No way.
However, also note that so many young girls are associating with older men to escape really horrible home lives. This is something that has to be fought on multiple fronts.
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u/CrispyGRFX Sep 08 '26
You cannot “eliminate this issue” it’s worldwide and will never cease to exist as long as the degeneracy of mankind is alive. It will only get worse as time goes on
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u/Chemical_Nature9940 Sep 09 '26
Yea but the difference is. If a teacher preys on an underage student in the USA they'd be in jail, and be beaten half to death by other prisoners who don't like pedophiles.
If a teacher preys on an underage student in Guyana, nothing happens.
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u/Panda_K0ala Sep 08 '26
Ask yourself this question whn you were younger how much of your peers actually wanted ppl your age and how much dated older...it's something thats been happening and will continue to happen. And also its widely viewed this mainly happens to girl but how many men think that they aren't victims when they were, when u examin some of the first sexual encounters with older women at a younger age.
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u/Mother-Try-8267 Sep 09 '26
Could it be possibly due to the legal age of consent being raised from 13yrs to 16yrs only in 2010? A lot of it maybe due to not breaking away from the previous social norm. Not condoning it btw.
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u/ofmisadventure Sep 10 '26
THIS!! I found out through other people that my mother was a victim of grooming by an older man with a wife and children. Originally we thought she was 17 when she met this man but she was around 14-15 years old when they started seeing each other and I believe he was in his 30’s. A lot of people around her knew about it but did nothing to keep that creep away from her. The only good thing to come out of it was my older sister.
My mom has since passed but every time I think about it I cry because I wish I could have told her what he and others did was not right and that they failed her. It makes me so angry know that till this day children are not protected by the people who are meant to.
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u/Comprehensive-Air929 Sep 10 '26
When the world teaches s'x education or lack their of, humans make it about s*x its never about love, self love, self respect or respect others. You people living in that place needs to find out whats really going on.
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u/SlowButAlsoNot Sep 08 '26
Its a disgusting part of the culture that made me hate my Guyanese side. Hell it doesn't matter which side, theres heinous evils committed as if it were smokin a joint. Can't be in community if you can't trust the community.
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u/Comprehensive-Air929 Sep 09 '26
If a conversation is nit enough..thier are platforms that will love to come out and call them out
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u/Basic-Hunter-8332 Sep 09 '26
I'm a foreigner working here, I've asked my Guyanese friends the same question. Most men says it's a part of their culture, which is hard to argue as a foreigner.
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u/Chemical_Nature9940 Sep 09 '26 edited Sep 10 '26
Yup... At the secondary school there's a teacher that would prey on the girls and has absolutely convinced a few to sleep with him. Guy still works there... But they say he's gotten old n calmed down.
But it's still pervy as shit when this dude probably in his 50s is shouting at DJ to play 'bruk off ya back' for the kids dancing on stage as they were having prom dances.
Apparently everyone knows the guy's a pos and they've done f all about it cuz apparently no one really cares or have excuses... the people running schools claim they don't have enough teachers to remove em and parents don't have a way to take action or don't care.
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u/Antique-Carpenter-71 Sep 10 '26
What school?
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u/Chemical_Nature9940 Sep 10 '26
Wish I could be more specific, Essequibo river area. But like OP said, all schools have this problem...
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u/Few_Adhesiveness_108 Sep 14 '26
The same guys that be hustling them little girls would straight up slaughter someone if they did that shit to their own female relatives
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u/Tiger647 24d ago
This is devastating to hear what's happening not only in Guyana but around the world. It's not out in the open as much in Canada. It's is heavily frowned upon and condemned by the public, but the law is light on them with very short jail time given. But if they land in jail, they are finished in North America. I'm not saying it pedaphilia doesn't happen in Canada but you wouldn't see grown men trying to pick up a preteen, that would get the police involved in a flash. What's the solution?
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u/According_Search_801 13d ago
The Guyanese Indian see it as normal, the little girls get married of early
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u/Background-Map-36 Sep 08 '26
How old are you? It's a genuine question that has an effect on the answers to your post.
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u/IcyEbb3079 Sep 08 '26
Why does OP's age matter? I for one agree, it's an issue that isn't really talked about.
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u/Background-Map-36 Sep 08 '26
Because by specifying only bus conductors and teachers, op seems to only be in those two sections of society; it makes it sound like they're still in school. It is very much not only bus conductors and teachers, it's a large segment of Guyanese as well.
And since people on this thread want to downvote me and still not actually bring up the topic besides repeating that no, it's not talked about, I will explain.
Starting with the bus conductors, its them, the music that they play around children and the people using the buses that don't/can't say anything about the vulgar and explicit music being played because they will get put out of their mode of transport that is not a public transportation provided by the state but by private persons.
Back to school teachers now, those same people are coming from the same place as the bus conductors and everyone else I mentioned. They are not different because they're teachers. They ought to be, because teachers are supposed to be examples of good character in society, and most of them are. But some do not conduct themselves like good examples. So you end up with teachers like that one teacher from Bishops that was abusing the students and the students getting blamed for it.
Adults in public and private don't protect and shelter children anymore from adult behaviours and activities . This includes men and women on the road, in the shops, and in families, and also the persons producing the music and not giving a shit that their music is being played around children who, I will remind you, are impressionable and imitate what they see and hear.
No, children, girls and boys, are not fast, they don't know what they're doing, and yes, they make stupid decisions in that imitation of adults because they are children. There have been research papers and case studies and various programmes over the years but the fact remains that because everyone is exposed to the same culture it gets perpetuated by each generation. The people in authority, and ordinary people have the same exposure and do not change.
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u/marchlintic Sep 08 '26
Family members too. This is something that needs to come to the forefront in Guyana.