Forty-six-year-old Roxanne Alkins, up until recently a cook in a Puruni Backdam mining camp, is seeking justice after she was assaulted by a co-worker whose sexual advances she turned down.
Still smarting from a blow to her mouth that left her bloodied, Alkins told Stabroek News that what hurt even more was her employers’ apparent lack of concern for her wellbeing and their failure to ensure that the man responsible for the assault was arrested.
Alkins, who has worked in the interior as a cook for many years but was never physically assaulted before,
