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A 19-year-old girl was last evening admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing stab wounds to her right lower abdomen.

Shalo Gildharie of 316 Enterprise Gardens, East Coast Demerara reportedly received the injuries some time before 4 pm yesterday.

When Stabroek News visited the GPH yesterday, Gildharie’s mother Sugito Ramcoomar said that her daughter’s mother-in law had told her that Gildharie was walking down the stairs when she slipped and fell on a knife she had been cleaning fish with.

However, the visibly distressed Ramcoomar said she had her doubts as to whether that was what had happened.

“I know I wasn’t there when dis thing happen, but I don’t believe that me daughter fall down on no knife. Duh ain’t sound right to me.

How de damage [wounds] deh, it look like is somebody stab she,” the distressed mother said.

Ramcoomar said Gildharie and her husband had an argument on Friday and that resulted in him slapping her.
She opined that the spat between her daughter and husband might have escalated resulting in him injuring her yesterday.

When asked what had caused the quarrel, Ramcoomar could not say. “I don’t live with dem, suh me aint really know.

But meh daughter tell meh dat she and she husband had a quarrel and he slap she.”



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  1. Wow, what an incredulous story, the husband should be investigated, once he slap you he will do it again that’s all i’m gonna say.

  2. rose TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO says:

    when is the abuse of women will be over in g/t STOP DOMESTIC VOILENCE

  3. dove UNITED STATES says:

    it is every day folks – they are striving on crime with the constanding stabbing, shooting and domestic violence at it’s peak.

  4. malomucho58 UNITED STATES says:

    There is a virus in that polluted water the Guyanese people drink. It has infected their brains hence the need to try and knock off each other. This is the only reasonable explanation for this behavior.

  5. arc UNITED STATES says:

    When is a girl, a girl and not a woman, in the press.Is a married, ninteen year old woman a girl? Or does it depend on what is being reported on the female person? If this did not happen to have serious connotations for male/female relationships it would be insipiod.

  6. josefina BARBADOS says:

    IF SHE IS GOING TO START SHIELDING HER HUSBAND FAULT FROM NOW,THEN LATER ON WOULD BE A WORST STABBING , WHICH SHE MAY NOT BE ABLE TO SURVIVE . LOVE HAS A LIMIT , BUT NOT WHEN SOME ONE START HITTING AND WHERE KNIFE IS CONCERN . SHE BETTER GET REAL AND THINK WISE .

  7. unknown GUYANA says:

    domestic violence needs stricter penalities

  8. DESMOND HOYTE CANADA says:

    I believe that she fell on the knife.

  9. lorna NETHERLANDS says:

    hi everyone .its hard for me to believe that she fall on a knife .that kind of story mi dont believe .she is hiding some thing from the police.. … lorna .



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