The Editor, Sir:

We have long stopped denying the increase of young people committing crimes. But what about the exploitation of children going on in our country? What about parents who exploit their children sexually? How can our young people be better when the ones who care for them are sometimes the ones causing the most harm?

I was appalled in April when I read an article about a mother sentenced for helping her common-law husband to rape her daughter.

What kind of Jamaica are we living in when not even the mothers are protecting their children?

Tougher sentences

The common-law husband absconded and was still on the run when this article was published in The Gleaner. But the sentence was disappointing. Two years is not nearly enough time for the damage the parent has inflicted.

Not all parents are bad. But these 'bad egg' parents are not helping to lessen the problems and pressures facing children today.

So, I ask the parents, who are exploiting their kids, to stop it and for the law to implement tougher sentences for those who are caught.

I am, etc,

SHEENA-KAY GRAHAM

o4itjm@yahoo.com

St Catherine