JYAN calls for joint select committee focused on protecting the vulnerable from violence

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July 23, 2026

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KINGSTON, Jamaica—The Jamaica Youth Advocacy Network (JYAN) is condemning the killing of 10-year-old Shani Coke of Trelawny.

Coke’s partially nude body was found with her throat slashed on a dirt track in bushes in Tyre district near Troy, Trelawny, Tuesday evening.

READ: UPDATE: Police identify child killed gruesomely in Trelawny

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