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Aug 29, 2016 News
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For some women, dating a cop or soldier is a big deal.
It means, some believe, that they have a man in uniform who will watch over them.
But what happens when things get sour between the couple?
There’s at least one woman who says she is living under those circumstances and has described it has a living hell.
Her story goes like this—she dated a soldier back in 2010 and bore him a child.
He was then posted to serve in the interior location where he had an affair and had another child.
Nesha Samuels (not her real name) says she forgave him and welcomed him back into her life but this time he began to beat and verbally abuse her.
He eventually walked out on her and their child.
When he returned, Nesha said she had moved on with her life, and that made her former lover furious.
He would, she alleged, show up at her workplace and abuse her and even threaten to “mark” her and her new boyfriend.
He also threatened to kill her.
She was forced to take a restraining order to keep him away but as soon as it expired, he showed up at her home.
A few days ago, she took out another restraining order both seen by Kaieteur News), but that didn’t stop him. He showed up at her home and pasted newspaper clippings on her house of creatures he labeled as her.
The woman said she filed a complaint about the threats at a West Coast Demerara police station last Saturday.
As Nesha would describe it, he “works with the moon”—one time he labels her as a gorilla and another time he would write love songs, telling her how happy she made him and what she means to him and how much he loves her.
“I want him out of my life. I’ve had enough. He cursed me and tell me about my bony body and the lines on my neck and how I dressed,” a frustrated Nesha lamented.
She also alleged that her ex-partner made it clear that as long as she is occupying the 83,000 square miles of Guyana, there would be no one who can defend her against him, since “he is the law.”
“He calls and harass me from different numbers and I would remind him about the restraining order and he said that he is not scared to go to jail. I have no peace in my life and it is terrifying,”
Nesha is calling for assistance from both the Guyana Defence Force and the Police before it is too late and her children are left without a mother.
For the first five months in this year, 10 women were killed by their husband, boyfriend or ex-lover.
At a press conference, Caribbean American Domestic Violence Awareness (CADVA) representative, Dianne Madray said that more education is needed on domestic violence.
“The dangers (of domestic violence) can escalate when the community acts as a bystander, and we begin to feel that the police force does not take the level of urgency in their follow up on these matters,” Madray noted.
She said that every domestic violence case should be taken seriously to avoid a death, as in the case of Babita Sarjou, who was slain and buried in her estranged husband’s backyard for close to six years.
“When deaths occur, no amount of money can bring that person back. It makes me feel very sad and heartbroken to see the level of aggression displayed by so many of our men folk who feel ‘If they can’t have you no one else will,” the CADVA representative said.
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