Months after severing her relationship with a man, Stephanie Broomes says she is being harassed by police as they act on trumped up allegations against her made by the man and his current girlfriend.
Broomes, 20, said the latest allegation saw her being arrested and spending a night in the East Ruimveldt lock-ups, after she was accused of beating up the man’s girlfriend.
She said that had the police been interested in conducting a fair investigation, they would have discovered that she could not have committed the act since she was at work when the incident allegedly happened
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Her ex-boyfriend, the woman said, is a close relative of an employee working in a government office and she believes that the officers may be taking orders from this official. The woman said that while she and her ex-boyfriend were still together, there were occasions when the official would use his influence to get police to act on behalf of his relative.
Recounting her recent experiences, Broomes said she received a call on Sunday asking her to go to the police station. After seeking advice from her pastor, she decided not to go.
However, on Thursday afternoon when she returned to her South Ruimveldt home, her father told her that a policeman had been to the house looking for her. She then decided to go to the Ruimveldt Police Station in the company of her mother. At the station she met her ex-boyfriend and his father, the woman recounted. She said there she was accused of having a male make threatening calls to him and also send threatening texts.
According to the woman, she was asked to sign a document and then released.
On Friday, the woman said, she was attending a church service at Charlestown, when two police officers turned up at the church to see her. She said she and her three-year-old daughter then accompanied the officers to the Ruimveldt police station in the company of two church members.
When at the station, she said the two members were asked to leave by the police. She said she gave her daughter to one of the church members to go home.
The woman said an officer told her that a woman (the girlfriend of her ex-boyfriend) had complained that she had beaten her up. Broomes said this could not be true because at the time the incident allegedly took place, she was at work.
She said the police told her she would have to stay in custody and sent her to La Penitence Police station where she spent a night. She was released on Saturday morning on $5,000 station bail which her father paid.
The woman insists that she is innocent of all these allegations and said that all she wants is to live her life without being harassed.
