A MOTHER was brutally raped last Sunday morning around 02:00 hours at Devonshire Castle on the Essequibo Coast while sleeping in her home with her 75-year- old husband .

According to reports, the woman of Amerindian origin was dragged from her bed and brutally raped on the concrete floor of her home by two thieves who entered the home after breaking a window.
Reports said the woman who is the mother of several children from a previous marriage, lived with the pensioner in a common- law relationship at his home at Devonshire Castle main dam.The pensioner Ashborne Mazarene said he and his common- law wife had a few drinks and retired to bed about 23:00 hours).
According to the pensioner, he was awakened by some noise in the house around 02 :00 hours and got up to investigate, but someone threw a liquid in his face that he quickly recognised as pepper sauce. He said his eyes started to burn and the persons whom he recognised as thieves started to beat him in his head, face and stomach until he lost consciousness.
The pensioner, who suffered cuts to his face and head and bruises to his stomach, said when he regained consciousness he did not see his wife. He said the entire house was ransacked and his pension that he had collected on Saturday at a post office was missing from his pants pocket, along with his ID card and other household articles.
He said when he saw his wife at daybreak she told him that while he was unconscious, the two men dragged her off the bed and brutally raped her on the concrete floor. According to the pensioner, when the men finished with her she quietly came out the house and ran to the public road to a friend’s house for help. He said he found his wife’s underwear on the floor.
His reputed wife however did not return to the home, but went instead to her daughter’s home where she was taken for medical treatment at a hospital. The pensioner, also because of fear is now sleeping at his sister’s place in Dartmouth during the night.
The man said his reputed wife suffered terrible bruises to her back during the brutal rape attack and added that it is the second time thieves had attacked him and raped his wife.
He said the matter was reported to the police at Anna Regina and two suspects are in custody assisting with the investigation.

(Rajendra Prabhulall in Essequibo)