Transcripts – Day 13
Day 13 – Tuesday, 1 December 1964 CHAIRMAN: This session is now convened for today. Call Dr. Winfried Fries.
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DR. WINFRIED FRIES is sworn in and she states as follows: RAMSAROOP: Doctor, are you an intern at the Georgetown Hospital?
FRIES: Yes.
RAMSAROOP: In May of this year you were an intern also? FRIES: Yes.
RAMSAROOP: Doctor, some time in May this year, did you examine two patients, Ivy Ramnarace and Seecharran?
FRIES: Yes.
RAMSAROOP: Can you tell me the exact day?
FRIES: Seecharran was the 27th May 1964, and the time of examination is not written here, but the time of admission is 7.11 p.m.
RAMSAROOP: What were the findings on your examinations of Seecharran? FRIES: He was struck with a bottle and he had an incised wound on his head.
RAMSAROOP: And Ivy Ramnarace? When was she admitted? FRIES: The 27th May, 1964, 7.10 p.m.
RAMSAROOP: And what are your findings there?
FRIES: She had multiple abrasions; she had blue marks and bruises; her hair was cut very short. She said she had long hair.
RAMSAROOP: Did she tell you how her hair was cut?
FRIES: She said she was raped by several men, and they cut her hair.
RAMSAROOP: You examined several other persons during that period? FRIES: Yes.
RAMSAROOP: But you didn’t have records of that examination?
FRIES: No. Only two persons were admitted. Those who were sent away records were not kept of them. Records were kept on the sheet; those in the hospital usually retain a sheet.
RAMSAROOP: That’s all.
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DRAYTON: You say that Ivy Ramnarace had been raped? FRIES: She said so.
DRAYTON: Was there any evidence of serious injury?
FRIES: She said she was raped by thirty men, and had soreness in her womb.