FORMER Independent Senator Diana Mahabir-Wyatt, who was a member of the task force which investigated children’s homes 25 years ago, is questioning the rationale behind the Prime Minister’s demand for the police commissioner to investigate that report.

Speaking to Newsday, in a telephone interview on Tuesday, Mahabir-Wyatt who is also a human rights activist, confirmed being a member of the Robert Sabga-led task force.

On Dr Rowley's call to acting CoP McDonald Jacob to find a copy of the Sabga report and investigate it and bring those guilty to justice, Mahabir-Wyatt said she is willing to supply a copy of the report through her lawyer, if so requested.

However, up to Tuesday afternoon, she said she had not been contacted by anyone from the TTPS or the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM). She showed Newsday her personal copy of the Sabga Task Force report.

The task force, chaired by Sabga and including Mahabir-Wyatt, Vasant Ramkissoon, Valerie Alleyne-Rawlins and Basdai Gayadeen-Catchpole, investigated nine children’s homes and uncovered neglect and abuse of the children, a paedophile ring, a system of “kick-backs” by “senior officials,” fraud and more.

“After a certain number of years have passed, you can no longer charge somebody with an offence. I don’t have the names because the report I have, does not include names, other than an allegation against one security guard who was said to have sexually abused children, and one particular nun who was being cruel and abusive,” Mahabir-Wyatt told Newsday.

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On Monday, in a statement on the Office of the Prime Minister's Facebook page, Dr Rowley said he always paid special attention to homes for children and only became aware of the Sabga report when articles about it appeared in the media.

Rowley said he was told that the Cabinet-appointed committee, led by retired judge Judith Jones, which was appointed to look into the same issue last year, tried and failed to get a copy of the 1997 report.

[caption id="attachment_955253" align="alignnone" width="683"] Former Independent Senator Diana Mahabir-Wyatt, who was a member of the Robert Sabga Task Force, at her Cascade home on Tuesday. PHOTO BY ROGER JACOB -[/caption]

“I am today publicly calling on the commissioner of police to take immediate steps to find this Sabga report and the evidence of all those who were aware of this frightening situation and take all necessary action against all who have been implicated in or with these very shocking revelations as published,” Rowley said.

However, Mahabir-Wyatt said she was not unknown or hard to find and questioned why members of the committee, or anyone else, did not ask her.

She said the report was commissioned by then community empowerment, sport and consumer affairs minister Manohar Ramsaran and was sent to him. She said, as far as she knew, the report was taken to Cabinet which made Cabinet responsible for implementing the report's recommendations.

She said she never heard if the report led to any police investigati