Woman allegedly battered at gunpoint by Govt. Official’s son

Jun 24, 2013 News

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– Top Cop launches probe

 

By Latoya Giles

Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell announced last night that he has launched an investigation into the alleged brutal assault of a 28-year-old woman by the gun-toting son of a senior government Minister.
The alleged victim said that the official’s son, who was brandishing a gun, repeatedly punched her in the face and stomach after forcing his way into her home at around 04:00 hrs yesterday.
But she also claimed that a senior officer at the Brickdam Police Station refused to take her statement when she went there to file a complaint.
Bruises were clearly visible on the woman’s face and upper body, and her eyes were bloodshot when she spoke to media operatives at her home yesterday.
“No one seems to understand what I go through …every time I try to start over fresh, he comes out of nowhere,” the alleged victim said.  The woman had severed a relationship with the official’s son and had made several reports that he had abused her physically.
Kaieteur News managed to contact Police Commissioner Leroy Brumell, who is at present overseas. After being informed about the incident, the Top Cop stated that he had ordered a Divisional Commander to investigate the woman’s complaint.
“We are investigating it…any complaint like this is serious,” he said.
A senior police official confirmed that the woman had filed a similar complaint of assault against the official’s son, with whom she had a relationship, but then asked that the matter be dropped. The official said that the accused individual had also filed a complaint against the woman and, like her, also asked the police not to proceed with the matter.
The woman said that she was in bed when she heard a knock on the door. She said that she was expecting a relative who was spending time with her, so opened the door, only to be confronted by her ex-boyfriend.
The woman said she immediately tried to shut the door but the intruder, who had a gun, forced his way in.
She said that after she kept insisting for him to leave, the government official’s son became annoyed and began punching her to her face and about the body, leaving her entire face swollen and her upper body badly bruised. The woman estimated that her ordeal lasted about 20 minutes before her ex-boyfriend left.
Afterwards the injured woman said that she contacted close friends who took her to the Alberttown Police Station. However, officers there told her that she should make a report at the Brickdam Police Station. But she alleged that when she attempted to file her complaint with an officer, the rank, whom she identified, left to go into a room and never came outside. “We were waiting there for about an hour and a half and no one came to me so I left”.
According to the woman, she then returned home. She alleged that her attacker then called to find out how she was doing. “He called me later in the morning asking if I was ok and I hung up the phone.”
Later in the afternoon friends again encouraged her to get a medical report and return to the police station. She said she then went to the Georgetown Hospital.
The woman had spoken to Kaieteur News some months ago about a similar beating she had allegedly received at the hands of the Government official’s son.
She had stated that the relationship started in July 2012 and the abuse started soon after. She said that she still stayed in the relationship, even though friends warned her not to.
The woman was beaten severely last October and had to be taken to a private City hospital for medical treatment.  According to her she was required to take a CT scan.
Less than a month later, the woman said she suffered a more severe beating. At the time, she was in her early stages of pregnancy and was beaten so severely that she miscarried.  That incident happened at her home, and she had stabbed him once in self defence.
That matter was reported, but her attacker never went ahead with pressing charges.
“He kicked me to my stomach …he kept saying that he was going to make me not be able to make other children”. This, according to her was her final straw, and she discontinued the relationship.  However that still didn’t deter the official’s son from contacting her.
She told Kaieteur News that since last year she has been receiving threatening phone calls. The woman said that the man also shows up at her house and demands to be let in. A report has been made, but she claims that the police seem not to be interested in the matter.
She said that this may be due to her discontinuing prosecution on two previous occasions.
There was an attack in April of this year when she was having dinner with friends at a city restaurant.  She was attacked but luckily her friends intervened and the Minister’s relative went away. Further, the woman said that she made contact with a government official who begged her not to go public with the story, but the official did not offer any support to her.

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