EIGHTEEN-year-old Deraj Persaud was taken “as is” to the Sisters Police Station, East Bank Berbice after his girlfriend’s mother found him aback her house in the neighbouring Brother’s Village, East Bank Berbice almost naked.

Persaud told the Guyana Chronicle that his 16-year-old friend, Fabiola, had invited him to the home on Sunday to watch a movie, but her mother returned home shortly afterwards, forcing her to usher him through the back door while she rushed to open the front door to admit her agitated mother.

Speaking with a Trinidadian accent acquired from living in the twin-island republic for six months, Persaud recalled: “After I was pushed out by Fabiola I went and hid, but Kishan, the young man who was chosen to marry Fabiola, found me. He had returned with the girl’s mother. He found me.

“He held onto me and shouted, ‘Auntie Kutie, I get a surprise for you.’”

Referring to Fabiola’s mother as Aunty Kutie, Persaud said, “She came and called on her son to bring a piece of wood. In the meantime, she started to cuff me across my face. I pleaded with her son not to bring the wood, but he did, and she lashed me across my head and face. I started to scream for help, but no one came to my rescue.

“Kishan viced me and pulled me into the house. She asked for a cutlass, but her son did not bring it. Aunty Kutie asked her daughter, ‘How many times you and this boy had sex?’ She said, ‘We did not have sex’. (Auntie Kutie) started to beat her, and the girl started to cry.

“‘Oh you crying?’ Auntie Kutie shouted. You crying because you man getting beat up?’ You all tek off you clothes!’” she demanded.

Persaud said he was afraid, as blood was flowing from the wounds on his head and face, and so he complied by undressing, but kept on his underpants.

“She continued to beat me before walking with me to the Sisters Police Station. I was taken there in my underwear,” he said.

A report was subsequently made, and the matter was transferred to the Central Police Station in New Amsterdam, were a medical form was issued.

A visit to the New Amsterdam Hospital resulted in a medical certificate being issued in Persaud’s favour. Persaud intends to have the matter prosecuted. He said he sustained seven blunt traumas to the head and right eye; lacerations to the head; and abrasions to the face, abdomen and mouth.
Investigations are continuing.