(Trinidad Guardian) After identifying her daughter’s brutalised body, which was found floating in the Guayamare River, Caroni, on Sunday evening, Sandra Baboolal spent hours weeping at her Enterprise home on Monday.
“I can’t believe they do that to my daughter. Nobody can believe they do this to her. She was a nice girl. She did not deserve this,” Baboolal told Guardian Media in a telephone interview last night.
Baboolal said she was still trying to come to terms with Rehana Jaggernauth’s untimely and brutal end.
“They rape her because she had no clothes underneath (when I saw her body). She was wearing a vest and brassiere. She had no tights, no panties and no slippers,” Baboolal cried in anguish.
The distraught mother added, “Crime not nice. I never expected this to happen to my daughter. Anything else but not this boy, this was brutal. I went and see her today. That was brutal. Women are not supposed to go so. My daughter was a nice girl. She not supposed to die so.”
Expressing outrage, Baboolal said, “Women make sons who become monsters like that. How could they do a woman like that? You don’t have sisters, a mother, cousins, no girl children? To do a woman something like that?”
Baboolal also begged God for courage.
“The only thing I could do is pray and beg for the help to fight this. I don’t know how far it will go but I fighting to cope. My child living seven years in Moruga and only come up here with her family for her father 40 days,” Baboolal said.
She revealed that on the morning Rehana went missing, they had shared coffee and a good laugh.
“Friday morning she got up and we drink coffee together, we laugh and talk. She said ‘mammy, everything now start to look up for us’. I was doing some work for Christmas so I go to work in the morning,” Baboolal said.
She revealed that seeing her daughter’s body was the worst experience she has ever had.
Jaggernauth, 32, had been living in Marac Village, Moruga for seven years with her husband Kevon Noel and their three children – Gabriel, 5, Uriel, aged three and Daniel, two.
They left Moruga and went to Enterprise in Chaguanas to attend a 40-day memorial for her deceased father.
After the prayers, they spent several more days with Baboolal and Rehana’s eldest daughter Emily, 16, who has been living with Baboolal since birth.
Baboolal said Rehana, whom she fondly called Rena, left home to go to a nearby shop around 1.30 pm on Friday but she never returned. A missing person’s report was later made at the Chaguanas Police Station.
On Sunday evening, the family’s worst fears were realised when a group of fishermen found Rehana’s body floating in the river.
An autopsy will be performed this week.
