Youth caught raping elderly woman outside La Penitence Market

Jul 08, 2021 News

Kaieteur News – A young man, who appeared to be in his late teens or early 20s, was last evening caught raping a homeless woman on Saffon Street, Charlestown, just outside of the La Penitence Market.

Ranks making the arrest at the scene.

Some of the elderly woman’s belongings.

The area where the rape took place.

The youth was caught in the act, sometime after 19:00hrs, by a group of persons passing in a car. “He was raping the woman right on the road,” said a female passenger who helped to rescue the elderly woman.
She said that at first they were convinced that “it was two young people” but on closer inspection they realised that it was a young man raping an old woman. As such, the driver decided to turn the car around in order to rescue her.
“When we turn around the car, he run away through a corner and deh stand up peeping,” the passenger related. However, two men, who were also in the car, reportedly blocked him off and efforts were made to summon the police.

The youth bowing his head while in custody.

When Kaieteur News arrived at the scene, ranks were preparing to arrest the young man. He was clad only in a “stripe pattern” t-shirt and boxers. The suspect tried to resist being arrested but the ranks picked him up and threw him into the back of their patrol vehicle.
Again, the young man tried to fight back but was overpowered by the ranks.
Angry residents who turned up at the scene, lambasted the young man’s action but he kept insisting, “bai me aint do nobody nothing.”
After calling an ambulance to take the elderly woman to the hospital, the police ranks, with the young man in custody, drove off, heading to the Ruimveldt Police Station. By this time, the ambulance had arrived and as the woman was being helped into it, Kaieteur News’ reporters observed that she was limping and blood could be seen on her hands, legs and clothing.
According to the residents who were at the scene, the woman is believed to be about 80 years old and has been a vagrant in the area for some time. They revealed that she is sometimes seen in the Market or on the pavement in front of an unoccupied building.
Meanwhile, at the station, the suspect bowed his head, presumably in shame, as ranks handcuffed him to a bench and started to interrogate him. He, however, refused to cooperate with the investigators and kept his head bowed between his knees.