A/HRC/16/52/Add.3 and “donkey food”. In principle, the detainees could be visited every day, but this privilege was often restricted for disciplinary purposes. In addition, they were regularly beaten by warders. The most violent of the warders was Officer Morgan. The bathroom was not working and needed to be fixed. 153. P.J., aged17, had been at Stony Hill for two months, since early January. There was regular violence and not enough food. Four days before the visit of the Special Rapporteur, he had a fight with another boy in the dorm. As a sanction, Officer Witter hit him with a long wooden stick and Officer Morgan with a cricket pad. Officer Morgan also slapped him on the face. Then he had to kneel down and hold up a chair in the air for two hours. Both warders ordered the boy with whom he had the fight to punch him on the mouth. The findings of the forensic expert of the Special Rapporteur corroborated the allegations of illtreatment. 154. C.S., aged 16. He had been at St. John Bosco Children’s Home from March to August 2009 for being “uncontrollable”. From August to 1 October 2009, he was at Alpha Boys Home and at Stony Hill since 1 February 2010. The latter was by far the worse because the children were locked up and subjected to constant violence, fighting and beatings. As a punishment, they had to kneel down, clean the dorm and the bathroom, wash the walls, were beaten and could not receive visits for up to two or three months. Usually, his mother could visit him every two weeks. 155. D.M., aged 12, had initially spent one month at the Alpha Boys Home in Kingston for being “uncontrollable”. He had been at St. Andrew for a week, which was far worse. At the Alpha Boys Home, the guards did not beat children, but in St. Andrew this was a regular practice. On 16 February, he had to kneel down with his hands up while Officer Morgan beat him on the buttocks with a brown wooden board, roughly one meter long. 156. D.D., aged 16, had been at Freeport Police Station since August 2009 and was transferred to Stony Hill some days before the visit of the Special Rapporteur. In Freeport he had been beaten with batons and had to sleep on the concrete floor. He found Stony Hill comparably better, although the toilets were very dirty and his family could not visit him since they lived far away. 157. M.A., aged 15, had been in St. Andrew since November 2009 and had been previously held at Central Police Station. He had been beaten by the officers in St. Andrew and felt homesick. 158. T.C., aged 16, was arrested on 21 January 2010 and taken to Central Police Station. On 11 February, he was transferred to St. Andrew. He had not been beaten but complained about the bad hygienic conditions. 159. A boy, aged 16, had been held at St. Augustine Place of Safety for one year and was transferred to St. Andrew three weeks prior to the visit of the Special Rapporteur. He was charged for attempted murder and had no lawyer. He was HIV positive since birth and both his parents had died of the disease some years before. He had regular access to a doctor. He preferred St. Augustine because he had more freedom and could go out more. He had no money to buy water or snacks. He would like to use the computers and improve his skills, but there were too many people and he almost never had access. He felt very bad and lonely at St. Andrew because the other boys called him names and sometimes beat him. He was never hit by an officer. 160. M.J., aged 14, had been detained in the remand centre for one and a half months. He had been beaten by the warders two weeks before the visit. He was in dorm number 1 and had a fight with another boy. Three warders came and took him to the front office, where he was told to bend over the table. A fat officer, who drove a Kingfish car, took a belt closet, doubled it and beat him on the buttocks. He wore shorts. He did not count the blows but 50

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