THE police have made two more arrests in connection with the alleged rape of young girls across the island, at a time when child protection agencies are expressing concern that Jamaica's children, who are out of school, are at risk.

Police sources told the Jamaica Observer that sometime last year the child and her mother, who was in a relationship with the farmer, overnighted at his house.

Weeks later the child was at the farmer's house alone when, allegedly, he again forced himself on her and had sex with her.

But a recent dispute between the farmer and the girl's mother pushed the child to reveal that she had been raped twice by him.

For the month of April, children below 11 years of age accounted for 45 sexual cases reported to the Ministry of Justice's Victim Services Division, while children 12 to 17 years of age accounted for 114 cases.