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Neighbours assault disabled mom
Pagan Thompson, of Lot 975 Hendy Block X, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara is pleading with the relevant authorities to sanction two of his neighbours for allegedly assaulting his disabled mother.
The disabled Debra Thompson.
His mother, 55-year-old Debra Thompson, who is deaf and dumb, is reported to have been the victim of physical assault by the neighbours–a man and his wife.
Pagan Thompson says that several complaints made to the Turkeyen Police Station have gone without action.
About nine months ago, prior to the incident they were living in peace and harmony. Thompson said that when the neighbours would leave their home unattended to work in the interior for several weeks at a time, he and his wife acted as security, ensuring that no one broke into their house.
A few weeks later the neighbours began hurling insults at his family, including his children and his disabled mother.
The man stated that the on December 6, last, the neighbour reported to the police that he was exposing himself to her. He said that he was taken to the Turkeyen Police Station where the officers listened to the matter and instructed both neighbours to keep the peace.
On February 8, 2017, he secured employment at a reputable geotechnical investigation firm and on his first day of work he was escorted yet again to the station where he was informed he was being arrested for verbally abusing the neighbours. He said that he was placed on bail.
During the last two years his mother, Debra Thompson, has been living with him due to the death of her mother. Approximately two months ago the neighbours began making Debra the target of their insults.
Thompson said that he and his wife would normally leave his mom home because they both worked. When he returned he would be greeted with complaints of the neighbours pelting bricks on the roof and at his mother when she went to the bathroom, which is located at the back of the house.
The man said that the situation became so bad, he insisted that his mother bathe before he and his wife left for work and remain in the house, so as to avoid any contact with the neighbours.
The matter came to a head on May 10, last, when his wife took his mother to collect her social assistance benefit from the Campbellville Post Office, as she would normally do.
Thompson said that his wife brought his mother part of the way back home on her bicycle since she was late for work, leaving Debra to walk the short distance to the house. But on that day the neighbours attacked the woman on the road when she was passing.
According to other neighbours in the village the man and his wife grabbed the woman by her shirt and dealt her several blows. Thompson said that his younger brother would usually check on his mother when they are at work.
The brother said that on the day of the incident while he was on his way to see his mother he found her crying on the road and when he inquired as to what was the matter, she indicated to him that the neighbours had pelted her and had assaulted her.
He recounted that he then subsequently informed other relatives of what had transpired. They checked for injuries and took the woman to the Police Station to lodge a report, but were informed that due to her disabilities the police could not take a report from her without an interpreter being present.
The police instructed them to return the following day when they would try to have an interpreter available.
Back home, upon entering the yard the neighbours began making remarks, suggesting that his mother was dumb and stupid and that was the reason the police would not take a report from her.
The man and his wife took the woman to the Sophia Health Centre to have a medical examination done, which revealed she had a swollen hip (left hip) secondary to trauma.
They then returned the medical report to the Turkeyen Police Station and were instructed to attend to the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court on May 19.
When they arrived at the court on Friday they saw the neighbours sitting outside so they decided to sit and wait until they heard their names. After two hours of waiting Pagan Thompson said that he enquired from the orderly whether the court had their names, only to learn that their case file had not been sent across.
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