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Female soldier alleges rape in army, wants matter investigated

Dec 11, 2012 News

 

–    Says there’s a covered up plot

 

A female soldier is claiming that she was raped by her Captain while being a part of a military police training course at an interior location. She says that the issue is being covered up by the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and not being addressed accordingly by the Police.
The rape was reported to the Brickdam Police Station twice, and to the upper echelon of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).
The traumatized 22-year-old said that the issue was made a joke in the army. Persons blistered her and made fun of the allegation which occurred in November 2011. Thus, the victim requested a transfer to the Coast Guard.
Indentifying the perpetrator by name, the young lady said that on the first occasion of rape, she blamed herself because the ordeal happened when she was under the influence of alcohol and was not aware of what really transpired until the following day.
She continued: “He (the captain) say we will go and take a drink with them boy, and we went at a bar at the airport in Timehri. I got drunk! I could have only remembered things in between. I then was placed in his jeep to relax.”
She explained, “He then asked me if I wanted to wash my face and he carried me into the officers’ accommodations. He then tell me I could spend the night and I would go home in the morning, I didn’t see anything wrong with it since it is somebody I trust and he is my senior.”
After waking up in the Captain’s quarters, she said the officer was asking her questions about if she was willing to have a relationship with an officer. “He then began pushing himself on me and I pushed him off, and then he force me to have sex. He was stronger than me! After he was finished he then locked me in his room and come back for me and dropped me off at Timehri bus shed…He even told me if I tell anybody nobody will believe.”
She said that she never disclosed the event to any relative since she was having issues with her family, something she confided in the said officer when she first joined the GDF in 2010. The young lady said she then confided in her boyfriend who is also in the Army but begged him bitterly not to tell anyone.
She said that the officer called her two days later apologizing and requesting a relationship, an offer she refused.
“I put the entire ordeal behind me and said I would treat him like a friend. That was also another mistake, since he carried me again and got me drunk in the city and he carried me to the seawall last May and then he drove to Camp Ayanganna. Right away I wanted to run away but people would have noticed and I would have looked even more embarrassed; he forced me into his barrack and it happened again.” she lamented.
The depressed young lady said that she then severed all communications with the Captain and reported the matter to the Chief of Staff and was later assigned a counselor.  A few months later she reported the matter to the Brickdam Police Station after she realized the issue was being covered up in the army.
“No police and Army official contacted me and it looks like they are ducking the story…This man working and watching me and laughing and behaving like if everything normal.”
The Chief of Staff was not in the country, his deputy was also not in office so there could have been no official reaction to queries on the matter.

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