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Minister calls for swift action to find child killers

Published:Tuesday | February 24, 2009 | 8:39 AM

Minister of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports, Olivia Grange has called for swift and intensive police action to nab the killers of 14 year old Shelly-Ann Gordon.



The teen was found dead with her throat slashed in the bushes in the community of Hatfield, Westmoreland yesterday morning.



Grange described the killing as one of the most barbaric acts to be perpetrated on the country’s children.



The police had reported that Gordon was abducted from her home during a robbery on Sunday night.