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Woman beats East Bank Berbice resident for courting daughter
An East Bank Berbice man, on Saturday, suffered a terrible beating at the hands of a woman whose daughter he is in love with. He was dragged into a house made to strip and beaten by the woman in the presence of her son and another man whom she wanted her daughter to marry.
The incident took place at the woman’s home at Brother’s Village, East Bank Berbice. He suffered lacerations to his head, right eye, face, arms, mouth, ribs, back, hip and both hands among other injuries.
The man Deraj Persaud, called “Vong”, 18, of Lonsdale, East Bank Berbice, and a re-migrant from Trinidad, said that since he returned to Guyana about a month ago he has been working at a sawmill in the same village not too far away from his home.
Deraj Persaud
He said that a little while ago he and the girl, who is said to be 16, struck up a friendship after she started to call out to him whenever he would pass by. He said that after a while they exchanged phone numbers and started to call and to text each other.
The girl, he said, would invite him by her home to ‘gaff’ and watch movies and he would accept the invitation.
The man said that he learnt that the girl’s mother, Kuntie, wants her daughter to marry someone else and therefore was not happy with the relationship.
He said that she subsequently told him to “ease off from her daughter.” The girl’s sister would also call him and tell him the same thing. However, the man said that the girl would ignore their warnings and continue to call him and invite him home.
He said that on Saturday he had ventured to the girl’s home at her invitation. He said that he was inside watching a movie when he heard her mother approaching. The girl, he said, opened the back door and told him to hide in the back yard. She then proceeded to open the front door to let her mother in.
One Kishan (the man whom her mother wants her to marry) ventured into the back yard and subsequently accosted him. Kishan called out to the girl’s mother, “Aunty, I get a surprise fo yu”. The woman upon seeing him immediately grabbed him and started to beat him about the body.
The woman then ordered Kishan to drag him into the house, lock the door and beat him about his body with a piece of wood. The girl started to cry and she too was dealt some lashes.
The woman, he said, told her, “You crying because yu man getting licks; tek some more”. She questioned them if they ever had sex. When they answered in the negative they were beaten again. He was ordered to stand next to the girl and to strip. When they refused they were beaten again.
The girl refused to strip, but he was forced to strip to his underwear and beaten. The woman, he said, kept warning him to keep away from her daughter. She warned him to move out of the area or the next time it will be more severe.
The woman and her accomplice then took him to the Sisters Police Station in his underwear, so that he could be locked up. At the station the woman told the police that he was caught in his underwear, but her daughter told the police that it was her mother who had beaten Persaud and forced him to take off his clothes.
He was subsequently given a medical and was referred to the New Amsterdam Hospital where he was examined by a doctor. Upon the intervention of his mother, the matter was reported to the Central Police Station and the 44-year-old woman was taken into custody.
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