KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Ministry of Nationwide Safety has introduced a $J2 million (One Jamaica greenback=US$0.008 cents) reward for info resulting in the seize of the perpetrator(s) of the brutal homicide and suspected rape of nine-year-old Kelsey Ferrigon within the central parish of St Catherine.
On the similar time, Minister of Nationwide Safety Dr Horace Chang has vowed that the crime “is not going to go unpunished” as police intensify their seek for the suspect.
Ferrigon’s partially bare physique was found the other way up in a barrel at her dwelling on Job Lane round 8:00 pm on Friday. Investigators imagine she was sexually assaulted earlier than being killed.
In an announcement, Chang condemned the killing, calling it an “outrage.”
He has directed the Commissioner of Police, Dr Kevin Blake, to make use of each out there useful resource to swiftly deliver these accountable to justice.
“Let me be very clear, this horrific act of unspeakable violence, the place the lifetime of an harmless youngster, stuffed with promise and potential, has been cruelly extinguished, is not going to go unpunished,” the Minister stated.
“The complete pressure of the legislation might be delivered to bear on the perpetrator(s) of this evil, heinous, and cowardly act.”
The assertion additionally urged these accountable to give up to the police and warned residents in opposition to shielding the suspect.
