The story of Lolita is a perennial one – rich older man seduced by young girl on the make; and this is the story – more than most, that has destroyed families and lives throughout time. The macabre story I am about to relate is blood-curdling and tragic, and it is still being played out on the stage where the blind lady adjudicates, but I am telling this story here so that the optical illusions being created to make perpetrators seem victims are seen by the blind for what they are – ploys to make murderers remain undetected once more.
Sammy was a rich mid-forties divorcee with a young son, whose name was Navin.  Sammy was head of an integral department of the family business in Essequibo, but he often visited the city to conduct business, after which he would remain in town to have some fun, and that is how a teenaged Lolita tempted him.  He left his family and went to live with Lolita near to her impoverished family in Berbice, and they never had it so good.  He introduced the entire family of opportunists to a lifestyle that they had never dreamt of and encouraged Sammy to marry their promiscuous Lolita, which was to have tragic consequences for Sammy and his offsprings.
Lolita treated Sammy’s son from his first marriage with contempt, putting him to work as a gardener, and Sammy said not a word in the boy’s defence; instead he allowed Lolita to create so much strife between himself and his son that the young man was forced to leave his home and seek refuge elsewhere.
Lolita now had money to burn, so she became flashier and enticed many men into affairs.  Poor Sammy suffered in silence because by that time he had a baby daughter, Neeta, whom he loved with passion.  Lolita eventually wanted out of a marriage with an older man so she took as much money as she could lay her hands on and left the home to live with her current paramour.  She then sued Sammy for her share of the property that he had bought for them to live on after he had relocated in Berbice.  She won the case and much money and property, including a vehicle.
Sammy was forced to send his baby daughter to live with a relative while he resumed the life of a bachelor, forced to live alone, so he sought out the company of his rejected son Navin, who provided him with home-cooked meals and company.
Six years after leaving Sammy Lolita’s young lover had run through her money, severely abused her, and then abandoned her.  Seemingly contrite she asked Sammy for another chance, which he gave her – for two reasons:  He was still smitten with his Lolita and he missed a family life and his little daughter, whom had grown up with her paternal aunt In Nandy Park on the East Coast of Demerara.
Lolita, after having abandoned her child for six years, went to the school in which her aunt had enrolled her and presumptuously demanded that the teachers handed Neeta over to her, which they refused to do, because the person with whom they had been dealing with in relation to Neeta was her paternal aunt, Rama.
It broke Rama’s heart to hand over the little girl on whom she had lavished absolute love and care since she was a baby to someone whom was practically a stranger to her.  However, she knew in her heart that this day was coming sometime and she endured the pain, which lessened over the years.
Neeta was a brilliant scholar and was assigned to President’s College, simultaneous to being presented with a baby brother by the name of Joseph, whom she adored from the time of his birth, becoming his second mother.
However, Neeta soon resumed her adulterous ways. 
Benny and his wife Maria were crooks who had even conned Maria’s father of millions of dollars and they strategized on ways they could rob the very generous Sammy.   The plan was that Benny should entice the promiscuous Lolita into an affair, dispose of Sammy, then grab all the wealth that they envisaged Lolita would inherit.
Their plan succeeded to an extent and soon Sammy was out of the picture.  The only problem was that, although they had access to all the monies – millions in the house and millions in banks with Neeta having access via a bank card her father had given her, Sammy had, with great foresight, after Lolita had squandered his money on buying power motorbikes and jewelry, among other luxuries for Benny, willed his fixed properties to his two minor children.
Benny, whose relationship with Lolita was based on greed and not love turned his attention to the 14-year-old Neeta.  Jealous Lolita, who had given over all the money to Benny and had nothing else to hold him, began treating Neeta badly.  She had already taken the child out of President’s College after Sammy had died.  The phone number had been changed, Neeta’s cellphone and computer had been confiscated and she was kept as a virtual prisoner by Lolita, Benny, and Lolita’s relatives.  Sammy’s relatives were not allowed to attend his funeral or to see the children afterwards.  Even Navin, who used to visit his sister at her school, was cut off from their lives when Neeta stopped attending school.
One night, after a severe beating from Lolita, Neeta ran away from home.  Benny offered to take her to a safe place on his motorbike, took her instead to a hotel in New Amsterdam, drugged her with ecstasy, and raped her.  After that he took her back to the house, where they kept her a virtual prisoner, drugging her to keep her quiet, with Benny sleeping mostly with the young girl instead of Lolita, who had already expended all her money on him and could no longer buy his services as a stud.  Her hatred for Neeta knew no bounds because she now saw her daughter as her rival.  Only Lolita’s family had access to the children and, although Neeta begged them to save her from the atrocities being committed on her and the threat to her brother they refused, claiming that they could not afford to do so.
However Lolita’s family, who had benefitted tremendously from Sammy’s largesse, were appalled that their gravy train had dried up after Sammy’s death because their daughter had given away most of the money and was living on the interest of a fixed account and monies from a trust fund that Sammy had set up for his children.  Benny was openly boasting that it was only a matter of time before he got Sammy’s entire property and they meant to stop him by getting him away from the children to whom the property had been willed, so they called an influential member of the family to force Lolita to have Neeta taken to the authorities to complain about Benny’s abuse.
The authorities said that Lolita’s parents should keep the children and that she should pay them a fixed sum for maintenance.  Her family was appalled because they considered the amount too paltry and thought that, along with the children they would get control of the property, so, being ignorant and unaware that a minor cannot make legal decisions, they tried to force Neeta to sign over the property, which she refused, so they returned the children to their abusive daughter and her criminal paramour.
Lolita knew that she could only keep Benny if she could hold out the temptation of the children’s property to him.  By that time she was not seeing Neeta as a daughter but as a hated rival for Benny’s attention instead; so the duo devised a plan to eliminate the barrier to their acquisition of the property, but to do it as cleverly as they had eliminated Sammy out of the equation.
Neeta had already been known to run away, so they packed her suitcase into the trunk of Lolita’s car, along with her bankcard, passport, and an ornate, custom-made iron instrument belonging to Benny, then told the children they were taking them to the seawalls.  At the seawalls they bought ice cream for everyone, then Lolita told the children that she felt like going for a long drive, which she did, taking the trail to Lake Mainstay, where she stopped midway at a remote and ill-traversed location.
There in that remote location she and Benny dragged the screaming Neeta out of the car, even while her frightened little brother looked on through the car window, and beat the teenager behind a clump of bushes where Joseph could not see, deliberately breaking her hand when she attempted to fight for her life.
Thinking that she was dead they forced her body into the suitcase, which already contained her bankcard and passport.  However, Neeta had merely been unconscious and, regaining consciousness, she began struggling in the suitcase.  The murderers then pulled the child out of the suitcase and, while Lolita held her down, Benny bashed in her head with the ornate iron instrument until she finally succumbed to the battery inflicted on her frail teenaged body.
Benny asked Lolita if she wanted to get rid of Joseph at the same time but she said that they could not plausibly claim that Neeta had run away if the little boy also went missing at the same time.  She explained that, to avoid suspicion, they would have to do the elimination in stages as they had done with Sammy and Neeta, then it would only be a matter of time before the entire property became Lolita’s to do whatever she – and he wanted.
They again forced Neeta’s body into the suitcase before dumping it into a rivulet at a location where no-one ventures, weighing the suitcase down with the iron instrument brought for that exact purpose, except that it had been diverted to performing a more grisly act.
Thinking they were home free the pair returned home, but Neeta’s soul cried out for justice and her body was discovered by a hunter.
But who can depend on the blind lady for justice?  They retained high-priced lawyers whose consciences are allayed by the rancid smell of bloody lucre and almost everyone expects these bestial, cold-blooded murderers walk free, like many murderers have done before them, because there are many unscrupulous lawyers whose consciences are silenced when money talks.
In the meantime little Joseph is in the clutches of Lolita’s avaricious relatives, who are sharpening their chops in anticipation of finally getting their hands on Sammy’s property, while the little boy is well on the way to suffering the same fate as his sister, because he is the only obstacle to a much-coveted wealth.
And blind Lady Justice smiles from aloft at the casting of mankind, where criminals are provided justice whilst their victims become mere statistics in the passing eons of time.