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Alleged gang-rape…Teenager’s story yet to be confirmed – Divisional Commander

Jan 10, 2015 News

The story told by an 18-year-old Bellevue, West Bank Demerara (WBD) man that he was drugged and gang-raped by 10 men on Old Year’s night is yet to be confirmed, according the Commander for ‘D’ Division, Ian Amsterdam.
The Commander was at the time referring to an article in yesterday’s edition of the Kaieteur News in which a male teen alleged that his friend took him to a house at Vreed en Hoop, West Coast Demerara (WCD) and drugged him.
The teenager who is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) further alleged that his friend sodomized him and then organized nine of his friends to do the same.
The friend was subsequently arrested and later released on bail.
Yesterday, Amsterdam told this newspaper that while they have received information that the teen was sodomized, a police rank is yet to visit the victim in the hospital to get a detailed statement.
“Police went to the West Demerara Hospital but they didn’t find him. They went to the GPHC and they were unable to find him too. His mother was supposed to come (yesterday) to take a police rank to the hospital,” the senior official said.
The Commander added that a medical report from a doctor at one of the medical institutions the teen visited indicates that there was some sort of sexual activity to his anus.
However, he said that they cannot confirm how many men raped the teen.
“We have to meet with the teen first because the man he said raped him is denying the allegation. We understand, too, that the teen would usually sleep by the man he is alleging raped him,” the Commander said.
According to reports, around 16:00 hrs on December 31, last, the teen left his home to attend an Old Year’s Night party with the friend.
The teen’s mother told this publication that her son did not return home later that night.
“The next day (New Year’s Day) about five o’clock in the afternoon (17:00 hrs) I get a call from my son’s friend. He said that my son would sleep by him the night and come home the next day (Friday, January 2) and I said that was okay,” the mother said.
She added that later that night (New Year’s), she received another call from her son’s friend.
“He call and tell me that he sending my son in a taxi, but my son reach home till around 11 o’clock (23:00hrs) that night. He came with a car and as soon as the car stop, he run out,” the mother of nine said.
“My son was in a terrible condition. He was scared for his life; he was nervous, his body was trembling, and I could see he was in pain.”
According to the devastated mother, at that point she did not question the teen much, since he was in too much discomfort.
She said that he later asked to use the washroom.
“I hold him up, but he couldn’t defecate. He was just shaking and he was crying out for belly pain. When he wiped himself, there was a lot of blood on the tissue and I hold him up and put him to lie down on a bed.”
The mother said that when she questioned her son, he related the dreadful news to her.
“He said that his friend jook he with a needle, he and about nine other men rape him in a house. He said that blood spray up on the sheet, and the boys dem take off the sheet and hide it.”
She said that the teenager’s arm was swollen which seemed to indicate that he had indeed been injected.
Almost in tears, the woman said that her son told her that the men then locked him in the house and later went back for him.
“He said that the boys took him somewhere and they were going to shoot him, but a lady see and shout, and tell him to run. He run and jump in a taxi and the car bring him home,” the mother said.
At present, the teenager is not in any condition to give police a statement of what happened to him since he cannot speak and is said to be hallucinating.
Investigations are ongoing.

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