Domestic violence victim continues to battle for life

Aug 14, 2016 News

Almost two weeks after she was attacked and left lying unconscious on her bed by her estranged partner, who later succumbed to poison, 25-year-old Shareema Khan continues to battle for her life.

Shareema Khan

The mother of three of Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo, is a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)’s Intensive Care Unit. She depends on a machine to breathe.
Khan almost lost her life when Bhawanie Harrinarine called “Moon” sneaked into the woman’s home and chopped her in her bed before stabbing her 50-year-old mother, Bibi Shameela Shamshudeen, on August 3, last.
Harrinarine, a fisherman, escaped but later turned up at the West Demerara Regional Hospital after consuming a poisonous substance. He died the following day.
Shamshudeen was hospitalized and later discharged.
Kaieteur News was told that Shareema Khan nods when spoken to and would occasionally move her body a little to indicate she can hear.
Waheeda, the older woman’s sister, said that her sibling informed her that she was asleep when she heard her daughter screaming for her.
“She (Shamshudeen) said that she went into the room and went on the bed and hugged her daughter. Then she felt her skin was wet. The light was off, so she couldn’t see. When she went to put the light on, this boy come and start stabbing her,” Shamshudeen said.
The suspect then escaped from the house.
It was the mother’s younger daughter who rushed to neighbours and informed them of what had happened.
Shamshudeen’s husband, Mohamed Ibrahim, said that he was at work when one of his daughters called and urged him to rush home, since her mother and sister were bleeding profusely.
“She was crying, so right away I know it was something serious and I rushed home. When I go, I saw two relatives hoisting my wife to put her in the car, and I rush upstairs and bring down my stepdaughter,” the man recounted.
While Ibrahim could not say what caused the attack, he said that he was informed that his stepdaughter, (Khan) and her estranged partner had an argument sometime back, during which time he had threatened her.
“He (suspect) walked out and left his girl when she was pregnant. He didn’t want the child; he said that the child was not his, so she moved back with us and we say we will take care of the baby. The child is now one year old,” the man said.
He added that although the suspect refused to financially support the child, he would still go to their home to visit the baby. “He always going there and molesting her (Khan) and his family also disown this baby.”
Khan has three children. Harrinarine was the father of the smallest.

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