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A 13-year-old girl singing Tight and Pretty with sexually explicit lyrics is a child protection issue! The Child Protection Unit of the Children’s Authority of Trinidad and Tobago needs to take immediate action!
An alleged 13-year-old child, who identifies herself as “Yung Niy Niy”, is actively producing and distributing explicit sexual content through music. This situation constitutes child endangerment and, potentially, child abuse under the laws of Trinidad and Tobago, and requires your urgent intervention.
If indeed this girl is 13 or under 18 (and this is not a marketing ploy) people need to know that a 13-year-old cannot legally consent to creating or distributing content promoting having sex, sexual positions and alcohol consumption, such as Rude Boy.
Under the Children Act of the Laws of Trinidad and Tobago, the following offenses may apply:
- Child Endangerment (exposing a minor to harmful or exploitative situations);
- Child Abuse (emotional/psychological harm through exploitation);
- Exploitation of a Child (using a minor for sexualized content);
- Violation of Child Protection Laws (failing to safeguard a minor from inappropriate material).
Additionally, the production and distribution of such content may violate:
- The Sexual Offences Act (if the content involves sexual exploitation)
- The Cybercrime Act (if distributed digitally) Which is why I won’t share any links to the content myself.
There needs to be:
- Immediate investigation into the identity and well-being of this child and confirmation they are of the age of consent.
- Intervention to remove the child from any exploitative environment.
- Collaboration with law enforcement (TTPS Child Protection Unit) to identify those responsible for enabling or profiting from this content.
- Removal of explicit content from all platforms to prevent further harm.
- Psychological assessment for the child, as this behaviour indicates potential trauma or coercion.
- Parental/guardian accountability: If parents or guardians are aware and permitting this, they must be held responsible under child protection laws.
(via YouTube.)
This exposure can lead to long-term psychological harm, exploitation by predators, and trafficking risks. The normalization of such behaviour at this age is a red flag for abuse or coercion. Every day this continues, the child remains at risk.
And once more, I want to emphasize that we still have no comprehensive sex education in our schools!
We have teenagers who are aware of every kink, rough sex, unsafe sex, inebriated sex but have no knowledge on sexual health, consent, mental health, and healthy relationships.
We have gone from Machel Montano and Natasha Wilson singing Too Early For Your Love, which was a young, innocent take on a first crush, to teens singing about taking backshots.
And there are adults around them clapping and cheering and distributing it!
Please share this with all concerned citizens.
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Jessica Joseph is currently the Creative Director of Accela Marketing St Lucia/Canada. She is a multiple ADDY Award Winning Trinidadian national, Pop Cultural Anthropologist and Humans Rights Activist.
She blogs on Huffington Post and alieninthecaribbean.blogspot.com.
