Armed men terrorise Berbice family, threaten to rape 9-year-old
Four armed men executed a brazen attack on a Corentyne family on Christmas Eve during which they threatened to rape a nine-year-old girl.
The gun-toting bandits invaded the Lot 4B Number 46 Village home about 22:00h when the owner of the house was about to lock the main access door.
It is believed that the men were staking out the house and carried out the attack moments after the woman returned home with her granddaughter.
Chandrawattie Singh, also called Asha, 54, recalled that as she closed the door behind her, someone pulled it open.
“A person with black all over pull open the door. I see two other persons coming behind. One come up to me and put a gun to my face and say ‘don’t holla.’ They say they want money and jewellery.”
She told them that she did not have any money at home. The men ordered her to sit on the floor with her granddaughter besides her.
“’Tomorrow is Christmas, so you can’t tell me that you don’t have money’,” she recalled one of the men telling her. “’Bring the money. This house get money, you all doing business’,” they insisted.
Singh said she was punched to the face. However, the bandits, all of whom, were masked claimed that Singh was a money lender, but she insisted that she did not conduct such business. At that time, the woman stated her granddaughter attempted to speak to the men.
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