Marigot:--- The parents of the 15-year old boy who was allegedly sexually harassed while working at the COM is planning to file a court case against the perpetrator or his employer. SMN News has been reliably informed that the parents as well as the minor is not taking the incident lightly.
The youth was working at the Collectivity of St. Martin when an employee from the transportation department allegedly sexually harassed him. Sources say the well-known sexual predator went to the rest room and touched the child in his private areas. Upsetting to learn is that the parent of this youth is one of the vice presidents of the Collectivity and her colleagues did not take action against the employee who sexually harassed the child, instead action was taken when the vice president returned to the island. Colleagues of the employee said that they are upset with the head of personnel affairs and the head of the cabinet who only gave the employee three days sanction, reason why the parents are contemplating legal action.
SMN News broke this story two days ago and it is clear from the comments that are placed on this website that several people knew that the employee of the COM has a habit of molesting minors and nothing was done to protect youths from this person. This is second case of sexual misconduct that has been investigated by the Collectivity in recent months. An employee who was working in the Social Affairs department has been transferred when he also sexually harassed a youth that was on job training at the department.
