Canadian citizen says Army Major sodomized her, police slow to act

 February 23, 2013 | By KNews | Filed Under News  

A Canada-based Guyanese woman, home on vacation, is alleging that she was sodomized by a Major of the Guyana Defence Force.
 The woman, 35, is contending that though she willingly rendezvoused with the military man at an East Bank Demerara hotel and permitted vaginal sex; anal intercourse was a no-no from the inception.
 According to the alleged victim, who was once married to the accused brother, the two checked into the hotel during the predawn hours of Valentine’s morning.
 She said that intimacy was going the conventional route until the officer inserted his finger into her anus. “I told him to stop and reminded him of our previous talks that I am not into that and he said ‘I gah get this bamsy’ then I begged him to stop but he continued.”
 The Ontario-based woman said that immediately after foundling her, the officer proceeded to sodomise her.
 The alleged victim, a telephone operator by profession, said that she almost “passed out” during the ordeal. She also noted that her forehead was consistently being banged against the bed during the “painful” torment. Bumps were still visible in her forehead.
 She was at pains to, but bravely informed Kaieteur News that the accused asked her to remove herself from next to him and told her to bathe.
 During the bath, she said that the officer pulled the shower curtains, looked at her and uttered “You see what I did for you? It (the anal intercourse) got you glowing now.”
 The woman opined yesterday while at the Brickdam Police station, that the officer showed no remorse for his actions as he refused to answer her subsequent calls.
 “I was calling him to find out why would he do this to me, and he didn’t even answer,” she said.
 The alleged victim reported the matter to the Leonora Police Station the next day. The matter was then transferred to the Brickdam Police Station Criminal Investigation Department (CID) where it is being investigated.
 According to the telephone operator, the Major was summoned to the station but did not go. She said that she was informed that this was because he was heading a course.
 A confrontation was arranged and the Army rank admitted to all the allegations but contradicted her statement that the anal act was not consented to.
 The officer was accompanied by two lawyers; one male and one female.
 During the confrontation, the victim reportedly burst into tears. She said that she has been given the “royal run around” and is afraid that the matter will be swept under the carpet.
 Executive member of the women’s rights organization, Red Thread, Karen De Souza signaled plans to  raise the matter with the GDF’s Chief-of-Staff, Commodore Gary Best, who could not have been contacted yesterday by this newspaper.
 De Souza said that as it stands now; the complaint by the woman is “in limbo” simply because the amended Sexual Offences Act has not been assented to by President Donald Ramotar.
 De Souza added that by virtue of those amendments, it is unlawful to order a confrontation between the alleged victim and accused.
 “She shouldn’t have to be repeating the ordeal all the time.”
 The women’s activist said that her organization was concerned that the officer was a flight risk. “He is a pilot and he operates mostly in Timehri and the bush; so it is easy for him to just disappear.”
 A copy of a medical examination conducted at a West Coast Demerara Hospital seen by this publication, states that hemorrhoid was seen but there was no tearing, bruising or active bleeding of the woman’s anus.
 The Ontario-based woman told reporters that the officer is known to her about 12 years. She said the man had gained her trust and had never disrespected her before.
 The man, she said, told her that he has anal sex with all of his women and that she did not really know him.
 According to the woman, she had placed so much confidence in the man that she had planned to send her teenage daughter to spend time with him. Now, she said she is happy she did not because he could have done the same thing to her.
 Though she did not volunteer information that she was married to the alleged rapist’s brother, the woman later told Kaieteur News that she had annulled a marriage with the accused brother after six months on the call of him being unfaithful.
 Asked what caused her to become intimate with her ex husband’s brother, the woman said “we were friends and he had been nice to me over the years.”
 The alleged victim said she is willing to return to Guyana to testify against the officer. I just want it to be done fairly because a lot of times things have been done by people in the army and the police force and things can be pushed under the carpet, that’s the system in Guyana.,” said the woman.