Sexually assaulted teen recounts horrific ordeal

Feb 08, 2013 News

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The 17-year-old female who was reportedly sexually assaulted on Wednesday by a man who subsequently knifed four-year-old Jamal Naranjan to death, is convinced that the man would have killed her as well, if he had caught up with her.
The distraught woman, who ran out of the Wismar house, said in an emotionally charged interview with this newspaper that she instinctively felt that her attacker was going to kill her and “bag her off”, after he asked her for a “big rice bag” when he had finished raping her.
Her attacker lives less than 50 yards away from his girlfriend, who happens to be the slain toddler’s mother and a relative of the female victim, while the Wismar Police Station is located about 100 yards from where the incident occurred.
“He asked me for this rice bag to pack up some wares that he said he had, and I knew that he had no
wares. So I thought to myself, he probably will kill me and put me in the bag and dump it somewhere.”
The teenager disclosed that her female relative had ended a relationship with Samuels about five days before the incident. The mother of the now dead four-year-old Jamal Naranjan, was too distraught to speak to Kaieteur News.
The teen then recounted: “It was a little after twelve when he (suspect) came to the house, and said he came to collect some papers. At the time I was washing, so I told him he could go and collect the papers, but instead he go upstairs and collect some pictures, and when he come downstairs, he started to play some games on he laptop. So after I finish wash, I told him I got to go out, because I had to go on the highway.”
She said she only told him that because she wanted him to go away, because she always felt scared around him. “He was always too quiet, and I never trust people when they are too quiet. Only Monday night when I was sleeping, I suddenly wake up, and I felt as if somebody was looking at me, and when I opened my eyes I see somebody run past.”
The teenager said that she immediately told her mother that she suspected that the man had been watching her.
She said that after telling him that she was going out, she went for a bath, and it was when she came out of the bathroom and was getting dressed that the man went upstairs behind her and barged into the room before she could lock the door.
“So I seh ‘wha happen boy?’ and he seh ‘wha happen?’ And with dat, he bend down like if he going to pick up something from my shoe rack, then he turn round suddenly and scramble me from the back of me neck and lift me up. And he tell me not to scream or anything or he would kill me.”
The victim said the man took her into the living room where he continued choking her.
He then started to question her about her relative, asking if she was in a relationship.
The woman said that even though she had no idea, she gave the man a fictitious name and address just to appease him, because she was afraid that if she said she didn’t know, he would harm her.
After further interrogating her about the woman’s movements, the teen said that the man ordered her to undress.
She said she did what she was told out of fear, but kept begging the man not to rape or kill her.
She related that prior to raping her, the man disconnected the telephone, and donned a pair of green gloves. He then ordered her to lie on the bed.
“He raped me twice,” she recounted.
The teen said that all the while he kept telling her, how he loved her relative.
According to the woman, the man then picked up a pillow and attempted to suffocate her with it but she managed to wrestle it from his hands and threw it on the ground. She said that he threatened to slit her throat if she told anybody what had happened and then would flee into the hinterland.
The teen said she later managed to distract the man and started to “holler for murder”. She ran out of the house and went straight to the Wismar Police station.
She said it was while she was on her way to the station that she looked back and saw the man scramble the little boy and hoist him on his shoulder.
After reporting the matter to the police, the teenager said that she looked across at her house and saw the man bending down over the little boy in the yard, and the child’s legs were kicking in the air.
To her it appeared as though he was repeatedly cuffing the child. What she did not realise was that he was actually plunging a knife into his body.
She said that she started crying, and begged the police to go and save the boy, but they told her that she was hostile, “and that I shouldn’t be making noise in the station.”
“Then a woman who had already gone to the station, and reported the matter, returned a second time to call the police, saying ‘buddy look y’all deh hey and a lil boy deh getting jook up, and dey tell she ‘look, you come out the station because you always inciting some police story, you always stirring up strife’.”
A few persons in the Buck Hill neighbourhood, said that earlier in the day the suspect had been walking
around as if he was ‘creasing’ the place, or checking to see whether residents were at home.
Residents of Linden expressed shock and outrage, at the child’s murder, and the sexual assault. They also condemned what they called the “lackadaisical” attitude of the police, at the Wismar Police Station, which is a stone’s throw away.
But persons who knew the suspect expressed astonishment that he would commit such a heinous crime.
Most persons described him as an easy-going and quiet individual.
Meanwhile, a group calling themselves the “Mothers of Linden”, yesterday staged a protest at the Mackenzie Police Station condemning what they called the negligent and unprofessional behaviour of the Police at the Wismar Station.  (Enid Joaquin)

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