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Female prisoner in dramatic protest
Vanessa Schroeder
A female prisoner who was recently released on a murder charge and was subsequently incarcerated on another matter, on Tuesday afternoon staged a dramatic protest against what she deemed the constant harassment and injustices she has had to endure while in jail.
Vanessa Schroeder, 39, of Linden, caused uproar after she escaped from the building and climbed to the top of a trestle situated at the side of the female block, where she staged a protest for about half an hour before she was persuaded to come down.
Carrying just a bottle of water, the inmate vented her feelings as she attempted to capture the attention of prison officials and media operatives, stating that she wants “the world to know what is going on”.
She related how she had had spent 13 years in jail and was mistreated by a number of prison officers whose names she called out boisterously.
“They want to kill me, they always locking me up. They showing me signs how they would cut off my neck. I fed up. They putting me in the lock up and only loosing me for one hour. I want the world to know what is going on. I came to live and I will have to live.”
She also gave the names of her father and other relatives and also the phone numbers of her family members.
At the end of her protest, the woman calmly descended the trestle and reentered the prison through a window.
It is unclear what has been her fate as efforts to get a follow-up on the matter proved futile.
Schroeder, a mother of five, was previously convicted twice on serious charges. She was 32 when she was convicted of manslaughter, in the killing of her 16-day-old baby, Iana. She was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment by Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards in that matter.
She had changed her plea from not guilty of murder to guilty of manslaughter for the offence which was committed on February 23, 2001.Before she was sentenced for that offence the judge had ordered a Psychiatric report, which was presented by psychiatrist Dr. Bhairo Harry, who had described the convict as a person suffering from an organic brain disorder, and one who would need treatment.
She had earlier served three years’ imprisonment for killing her brother.
Schroeder was recommended for lifelong medical treatment for the brain damage.
The case for the prosecution then was that Schroeder had reported her child missing to Police, but the baby was subsequently found beneath some disturbed floor boards in an abandoned house, at Gardina Street, Wismar, Linden, with its neck severed. In a confession, admitted in evidence at the trial, the mother had claimed that she paid a man $500 to kill the infant.
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