POLICE are investigating the allegation that an uncle raped his 13-year-old foster niece and killed his foster sister, 34-year-old Molly James, and her 18-year-old son, Aaron James, yesterday morning at a creek close to the Demerara River at Moblissa on the Linden Highway.

Bloodstains were evident along the Linden Highway for approximately 100 metres away from Molly James’s house, suggesting that her son, Aaron, had tried to flee from his assailant after he had been attacked along with his mother.
Sunday Chronicle visited the scene yesterday morning and was told by the dead woman’s father, Ignatius James: “This morning, when I was going to work, I heard me phone ring and a chap across the river called me as I was filing my cutlass. And when I answer the phone, he asked me, ‘Is this Saggy?’ And I said, yes. He said, ‘Man, I surprise to hear last night that something happened on the Highway.’ I said, boy, I ain’t known nothing. He said, ‘Yes, I believe Molly dead last night, and she son.’ So I said, boy, I ain’t know.”
Ignatius James continued: “Anyhow, I tell him I coming up now, and when I come I reach the police was here. I reached here around eight O’clock this morning. I don’t know when they took the bodies away, because at 8:00h the bodies were already gone.
“This is her residence, and her children include Lolita, Aaron, Sunita, Bonita, Michael, Eon and a baby.”
Ignatius James could not say whether the woman’s other children were around when the murders took place, but at the time of this newspaper’s visit to the murder scene, the children were not there because the police had taken them away to the Mackenzie Police Station, where their grandmother and a Child Protection Officer were also present.
The police have instructed Ignatius James to put in place some form of security at his daughter’s former residence, as there were valuable items in the house, such as a television set, music set, freezer and diesel generator.
Ignatius James said he lives one-and-a-half miles away from his daughter’s residence and that his daughter had been estranged from her husband.
One of the late Molly James’s cousins from Adventure said he heard of the murders at around 7:00h while he was on the road, but he noted: “when I came I did not find anybody here; the police had already gone. She child-father gone to work at Issano side. He gone a long time, a couple months. Last month he would normally be here with them. Since he gone he did not come back. We live at Adventure.”
Another man, who farms at Moblissa but lives at Amelia’s Ward in Linden, told this newspaper: “Molly lived here about two years now. I live about 1200 feet from here, and I didn’t hear anything at all. I wake up this morning making my little breakfast, and I see the police dem come here. The last time I saw her was last week Tuesday, as I was helping them raise up that house with her father.”
Molly James’s father-in-law, Lawrence Devirius, who lives about one mile from the scene, said: “Somebody rape Molly’s daughter. I met the girl that get rape around four O’clock going down the road.” He said the girl once went to school in Linden, and then in Georgetown.” According to him, “The boy’s name is Orin. He is her uncle, and he would stay with them at Molly’s home. This rape happened at the creek, where the man went and held her down and cut her on her hand in two places. I brought Molly from Region One, and I know her and her family.”
The boyfriend of the late Molly James is James Simon, who had lived with her for the past two months. He said: “I used to live with she for a few months now, and Thursday morning was the last time I saw her when we were working over the Demerara River. I reach here around 6:30hrs this morning. I saw the vehicle with the police when I came. I did not speak to the police.”
He said he could not recall anyone threatening Molly. He said Orin is not related to him, but Orin was Molly’s brother, and he did not live with them, but would occasionally come around and stay.

(By Joe Chapman)