– abused woman pleads for justice
“He stab me on Christmas Day, again on Boxing Day and he stab me on New Year’s Day,” said Angela Allison, whose ex-lover doused her with a corrosive substance last Sunday just after 10.30 pm in front of the Parliament Building.
Allison, 42, of Cross Street, Werk-en-Rust, was crying out in pain when Stabroek News visited her in the Female Open Ward at the Georgetown Public Hospital. She was surrounded by family members who encouraged her to tell of her experience with the man, who she had known, “for jus one month and during that space in time he stick me up with a knife, and carry me to he house and rape me many times”.
Allison’s face and chest are badly burned, evidence that corrosive substance was thrown on her; while her right arm, right leg and lower back bear stab wounds.
She explained that she met the man during September and during from the inception he was very abusive to her.
She stated that some time in the October, after she had ended the relationship, the man went to her home “and he kick down de door and he come in and chop me pun me hand and in me back”.
Allison said she had made a report to the police station about the incident and the man was later arrested. She said he was locked-up for about a month and when he was finally released, he went looking for her. She said she had been in hiding ever since the incident but one day, her former boyfriend spotted her in a store.
He threatened her with a knife and ordered her to walk until they got to his house. She said that when she got there he raped her and since then, whenever he saw her he would do the same thing.
On Christmas Day, Allison said, her ex-boyfriend stabbed her on her arm, leg and in her head before raping her.
Last Sunday she was at her gate at Cross Street when the man approached her and told her that he was selling a computer. She said that he then grabbed her and dragged her until they reached Parliament Building where he released her when he saw three policemen in a vehicle.
“I call out [to them] ‘Officers please help me, this is de man that I de report that stab me. He seh he gon kill me’ but they ain’t do nothing”.
She said one of the policemen told her that they were coming over to help her but “dey drive away and left me in de rain with this madman”. She said that her ex-boyfriend then grabbed her again despite her attempts to climb over the Parliament Building gate. “Meh foot dey hurting real bad, so he tek out de bottle ah acid and throw it on meh face cause he said that if he can’t get me no one can”.
Allison said she then ran behind him and begged him to take her to the hospital but he ran away. She added that at that point she was seeing blurred because some of the substance had splashed near her eyes. She said that she had barely managed to stop a car which took her to the hospital.
Allison also informed Stabroek News that as she was lying in the hospital that same Sunday night, her ex-boyfriend appeared and told her, ‘come with me, I gon put egg on it [the burns] and you gon feel better and I gon pay a private hospital to look after you”. She said she pleaded with the doctor, who was attending to her at that time, to have her ex-boyfriend locked up but her ex-boyfriend immediately left the hospital.
She also said a report was made to the police station about the incident but it was not clear if her ex-boyfriend was apprehended.
Mr. Greeen with all the domestic diputes in the country you need to educate your officers so they could a least be able to identify a situation damm how sad
But what is going on in Guyana? You know what? I am still confused with this story even though I’ve read it several times. Too many discrepancies. Seems as if society has turned a blind eye to the victim’s plight, and the victim is no better herself. Why is it that you allowed yourself to be terrorized on several occasion? This barbaric domestic abuse nonsense cannot be happening in a civilized society, no, not Guyana.
MR GREEN… do we need a separate police force to deal with domestic voilence?????? had the police take action this poor woman would have been saved from..the burning she received..
THIS IS JUST RIDICULOUS TO SAY THE LEAST. TO BE STABBED TWICE IN ONE MONTH BY THE SAME PERSON, THAT CONTINUOUSLY RAPES YOU, IS IN IT SELF A TRAGEDY. THIS WOMAN PUT UP WITH BEING “STICK UP” IN PUBLIC, WHICH IS CALLED KIDNAP. THIS GUY SHOULD BE THROWN UNDER THE JAIL OR HAVE THE KEYS THROWN AWAY WHEN HE IS LOCKED. IT’S SHOCKING TO BELIEVE THAT SOME OF THESE “MEN” CAME OUT OF A WOMAN. SUCH A RELATIONSHIP NEVER ENDS RIGHT. THE WOMAN WILL EITHER BE KILLED OR SERIOULY DAMAGED(PSYCHOLOGICALLY OR PHYSICALLY).OUR POLICE OFFICERS SHOLUD BE TRAINED TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A “LOVERS SPAT” AND THE SERIOUS NEED OF HELP. THIS WOMAN WILL NEVER BE THE SAME EMOTIONALLY OR PHYSICALLY. SHE HAS MY PRAYERS.
This is so sad to read. It points to the continuous breakdown in our education system where values such as respect for other people and women folk seem to be no longer taught. It also once again raises the issue of the quality of police that are recruited. This man should have been quickly apprehended and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There is nothing in Guyana that can restore the quality of this woman’s life. I feel very sad for her and for all women who continue to go through this kind of debasement while the law whose motto is serve and protect turns a blind eye.
Obviously everything is wrong with this picture, there seems to be something not right with the victim and the man is all screwed up mentally/ psvchologically. It is not like this woman had been with this “madman”, (as she puts it) for years, they have been together for just a few months and he had inflicted so much pain on her, abusive women experienced that in a lifetime. I am totally AGAINST violence but if you have to defend yourself, strike the first blow and too bad if it is fatal. I am not even going to mention anything about the police, it is only going to be redondant ramblings.
Sick! Despicable! Barbaric! Animalistic! Psychotic! Insane! Tragic!
Sad! I ask …when will this violence against our women folks end?
To all who is confuse about the Dams story.Where on Earth is she going to Run or go??? G/T is a Small place/ And it is indeed a small world
This is a sad story, but my question is, is this woman in her right mind or does she have a mental problem, because i can’t see why if she only know him for about one month and is abused so many times, and stay with him under that, and why hasn’t the police done anything.
In the space of ONE month this woman has been stabbed,raped, burnt with corrosive liquid no wonder men can do anything to women in Guyana. Reporting to the police don’t mean anything? Why was this man released after the first incident? Why was this man allowed to visit this girl in the hospital? Is she is not safe anywhere? I am shocked that police (not one but three standing together; no need for backup) are witness to a crime or possible crime and do NOTHING!!!!!!! Everytime I log on to the SN it is with dread.. but I still do it because I am a GT and that will never change. My heart bleeds for Guyana…..