Stranger beats, rapes teen in cemetery at Best Village

A TEENAGE girl was on Friday night beaten and brutally raped by a knife-wielding stranger in the cemetary at Best Village, where he abandoned her among tombs in the dark and eerie environment.According to reliable information reaching this newspaper, the girl, who lives at Best Village, near the West Demerara Regional Hospital, was walking home from work at around 19:00hrs along the lonely, bushy and unlit Best Road when the incident occurred.

"Lamumba say coolie love to complain?"

As she walked, she said, she heard the sound of a motorcycle coming behind her, but paid it no mind. After riding past her, the motorcyclist circled back and passed her again. After passing her a third time, he got off the motorcycle a little ahead of her and pretended to be urinating. Then, just as she was about to pass him, he grabbed her from behind and put her in a vice. He then dragged her into the cemetery, and, at knife-point, threw her to the ground and raped her. When he was done, he left her, crying and terrified, lying amidst the tombs and rode off into the night on his motorcycle. Still fearful, she stumbled through the dark graveyard and headed for the first house in the electrified Best Squatting Area, aback the West Demerara Regional Hospital. Breathless, she related her dreadful experience to the compassionate family living there, who lent her an ear. Shocked on learning of the teen’s encounter, they took her in, and assisted in making contact with her family, who came to get her.

"Philip Bynoe say no big thing?"

Meanwhile, residents have expressed outrage over the fact that for the longest while, despite repeated calls for street lights along the Best Road, and for the dense bushes to be cleared, nothing has been done.

"Kit say small Potatoes?"

“This continued failure of the Regional Administration to address such an urgent need, and a situation that puts the residents of the community at risk, is shameful and deserves strong condemnation,” residents declared.

McClean say this happen everyday

at National Service.

While expressing sympathy for the young woman, they are calling once more on the authorities to get their act together and move with all due haste to have the bushes cut and street lights installed.

Joe Hamilton....Nothing New