By Breaking Belize News Staff: Two years after police and Carnival officials condemned a viral video of an adult woman dancing sexually with a young boy during Carnival, disturbing new footage from Monday’s Orange Walk Carnival shows the same troubling issue has not disappeared but instead appears to have gotten worse.
The video, recorded during the September 21 Carnival Road March in Orange Walk, shows a young boy engaging in highly sexualized dancing with three different adult female revelers at separate points in the short clip. The women are seen bending and dancing provocatively in front of the child as he dances closely behind them, mimicking the grinding and “wining” normally associated with adult Carnival revelry.
The woman who posted the footage identifies the child as her son, writing, “One thing bout my son, Fun da fun.” BBN has blurred the child’s face in the footage being published.
The scenes bear a striking resemblance to an incident at the 2024 Belize City Carnival which prompted former Commissioner of Police Chester Williams to publicly intervene. At the time, Williams described sexually suggestive dancing between an adult woman and a young boy as “tantamount to an assault of a sexual nature upon that child.”
Williams stressed then that the fact that the child appeared to be laughing did not make the conduct acceptable, saying: “The child is laughing, but he does not know what was being done to him.” Police subsequently announced an investigation.
Belize Carnival Association President Patrick Thompson was equally forceful at the time, telling BBN: “That is something the Association will not tolerate. That is something that we definitely will condemn.” Thompson said junior Carnival bands were deliberately required to keep children fully clothed “because we don’t want anyone to prey on our children.”
Yet, two years later, highly sexualized interaction between adults and children has again surfaced publicly at a Belizean Carnival. BBN has not located any subsequent public report explaining what ultimately became of the 2024 investigation, and it remains unclear whether police, social services or Carnival authorities will take any action in relation to Monday’s Orange Walk footage.
The video also comes just weeks after the Belize Council of Churches called for greater modesty and clearer standards at Carnival, particularly where children are concerned. The Council urged organizers to establish clearer costume guidelines and called on parents and guardians to exercise discretion over their children’s participation and exposure to increasingly adult aspects of Carnival.
The Church statement followed a recent BBN commentary, “Was Granny a ‘Hot Gial’? Today’s Carnival is nothing like the original road march,” which examined how Belize Carnival evolved from a largely child-centred community celebration involving handmade costumes and choreographed dancing into an event increasingly associated with revealing costumes, alcohol and overtly sexualized dancing.
That concern is not new. Original Carnival organizer Soli Arguelles, speaking about the direction Carnival had taken and particularly its impact on children, told News Five years ago: “This is not what we wanted.”
The latest footage now raises the question once again: if authorities, Carnival organizers and child-protection advocates agreed two years ago that adults engaging children in sexualized Carnival dancing crossed a line, why is the same behaviour still happening—and what, if anything, will be done about it?
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By Breaking Belize News Staff: Two years after police and Carnival officials condemned a viral video of an adult woman dancing sexually with a young boy during Carnival, disturbing new footage from Monday’s Orange Walk Carnival shows the same troubling issue has not disappeared but instead appears to have gotten worse. The video, recorded during
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