An acting head teacher, of West Coast Berbice, is seeking justice after what she says was an unprovoked assault on her by a teen at Number 9 Village, West Coast Berbice.
Stabroek News was yesterday told that the teenager has been charged and is to appear in court.
The teacher, Gangadai Sebarat Isaacs, 33, of Number 9 Village, says the attack occurred on Saturday last at around 6.15 pm as she was returning home with her two young children, ages 11 and three, and her five-year-old niece.
“He walk past the two girls and then he come in front of my direction coming towards me. He walked straight up to me and stop and I ask him what’s wrong with him but he did not respond. Then I hold my son [who is three years] and pull him so he could pass but he walked into my son,” Isaacs told Stabroek News.
The woman said she again asked the lad if something was wrong with him, after which he immediately turn around and pushed her. “He come and stand up in front of me and he kiss me on my lips and I spit and then he start cuff me in my face and all part of my body and then he mother appear and took him to the station,” she added.
Isaacs sustained injuries to her face, stomach and back.
Due to the assault, her face was swollen and other parts of her body were left black and blue.
Isaacs explained that before she could arrive at the Fort Wellington Police Station, the youth and his mother, who is a security official, had already turned up. “The police ask what happen to my face and he say he ain’t know and the mother say that she only see I spit on she son and she son didn’t do anything,” she noted.
Isaacs is dissatisfied with the way in which the ranks attached to the police station handled the matter. “I went for a medical and when I was coming back to the station, I saw his mother take him home. She [mother] does tell everybody that no police can’t do she son anything because she does call persons in higher authority,” she alleged.
Additionally, Isaacs charged that the lad would often interfere with other persons in the community but his mother always intervenes. “One time he choke somebody and when the police come, they end up lock up the man that get choke. One jeep full a police come. The whole village willing to talk because people scared,” she claimed.
The woman added that she feels unsafe in her community since relatives of the accused have been issuing verbal threats to her and her family. “He coulda do my children them something on the road and he can still do them something when them walking,” she said.
Additionally, the woman claimed that in late hours of the night the teen can be seen walking in the community with a cutlass in his hands. “I don’t know what he could do. He is a threat to the entire community,” she added.
Stabroek News was told that Isaacs met with Commander of ‘B’ Division Paul Langevine yesterday afternoon and he put her on to the officer-in-charge of the Fort Wellington Police Station. “The officer, Mr. Davidson, told me to meet him at the station at 2.30 (pm yesterday) because he want to meet with both parties,” she noted.
According to information received, a confrontation was held between the two parties, after which statements were taken and an investigation has been launched.
