ComPol on Viral Video: “No child should be subjected to such abuse.”

The Commissioner of Police as weighed in on a viral video that captures a Belize City man physically assaulting a child. The shocking footage shows the individual slapping, kicking and punching the infant multiple times on two separate occasions. The perpetrator has since been arrested and charged with common assault. ComPol Williams had a few choice words for the culprit.  He also noted that further measures would have been taken against the individual if police were in possession of the video before he was taken to court. Here is what he told us.

 

Chester Williams, Commissioner of Police

“I cannot say what I want to say publicly. But when I first saw the video the first thing that came to my mind is this really Belize? And then the next thing that came to my mind is this actually a person? Is this person a man? I do not know. But the level of abuse that that “thing”, I don’t event want to call him a man, put on that child, is disgusting and it should be condemned in its greatest term. No child should be subjected to such abuse. And to make it worse, the child seemed so mannerly, seemed so compliant and as much as the child was mannerly and compliant this thing continued to beat the child, for what? What was he trying to achieve? What did that child do to him for him to beat the child in such a way? It is disgusting. As I saw the video I communicated with Mr. Romero, and I was happy that he told me that we have already dealt with the matter and the man has been charged. The only sad part about the whole story is that we did not see the video until after he had gone to court, because if we had seen the video before he had gone to court, we would have objected to bail. So that is the only sad part about it, by the time we saw the video he was already in court and had already gotten bail. I don’t believe a person of his magnitude should be out in public, he should not be. He should be around no child, absolutely none.”