BY COREY CONNELLY

Social Development Minister Anthony Roberts says he is yet to receive the report on allegations of sexual abuse at the Cry Foundation.

“I was at my desk on Sunday last and I have not seen a report as yet,” he told reporters yesterday.

“I do not know if it was submitted. Usually the route is through the permanent secretary, but I have not seen the report as yet. I guess it is on its way.”

Roberts was speaking in an interview during the tea break at his ministry’s staff retreat at the Centre of Excellence in Macoya.

The event, entitled Let’s Celebrate: One Year, One Ministry, One Family, saw the merging of the Social Development Ministry and the Social Services Delivery arm of the Office of the Prime Minister.

Almost two weeks ago, it was revealed that at least four out of ten children from the Claxton Bay institution had been sexually abused.

Last week, Roberts said that prior to the report that was made to the police, he had received correspondence from the National Family Services Division that the institution needed to get some additional funding and requested a report from them.

News of alleged abuse at the Cry Foundation came days after the grizzly sodomy and murder of four-year-old Amy Emily Annamunthodo.

Marlon King, the young girl’s stepfather, has been charged with her murder.

The minister said yesterday that homes for abused and abandoned children were continually investigated through the division.

“That is ongoing,” he said, adding that legislation to promote the Children’s Authority would also go to Parliament in the near future.

Outlining changes in the ministry’s structure, Roberts stressed: We are restructuring some of the divisions of the ministry and there will be new divisions as well.”