“RAVO,” the call name of the young teenager from Belle Vue, West Bank Demerara, who was reportedly gang-raped by 10 males including one of his friends, might now be on his last. This is according to the 18-year old’s mother Deomattie Persaud during an interview with the Guyana Chronicle.
Ms. Persaud said that based on her assessment, her son’s condition looks as if it is degenerating and that he was moving from a state of bad to worse. “I feel to myself that he going now, I don’t have anything else to do but just pray,” Persaud told this publication during a telephone conversation.
Added to that, the mother said that health workers at the GPHC have placed very strict visiting restrictions on who are allowed to visit the boy, even as she said that she and the husband are allowed to see him at any time.
Persaud said that the decision of the health workers had a lot to do with the condition of her son and added that even his sisters and other brother who wish to see him have to get permission from the nurse and/or doctor on duty at the time.
The devastated mother also pointed out that from her last visit to the young man’s bedside on Friday to yesterday, his condition is not looking good. She said that on Friday her son’s mouth was not closing and his eyes not opening; and when she revisited yesterday the situation remained the same.
In addition, she told this publication that her son’s hands and feet felt extremely cold. Persaud explained that doctors after her son was admitted to the GPHC, ordered several blood tests and other tests that were conducted on his person, but she was not briefed on the findings. She added that there was also an X-ray done.
On Saturday the young man continued to toss and roll all over the bed as he has been doing since his admission to the health institution, which seems to be his way of expressing through his body language, the level of pain he continues to suffer due to the alleged act of buggery.
Ms. Persaud on Friday dispelled rumours that her son was or is mad or “out of sorts” and contends that it was the trauma and shock that her son experienced after he was taken advantage of that has placed him in the present state he is.
She pleaded for those persons-including the young man in custody- who are responsible for the act against her son to come forward and say what they used to drug her son with, so that doctors will at least be able to know what they need to treat him for and with what.
“Ravo” was on Old Years Night allegedly raped repeatedly by his friend Romel and others in a house at Vreed-en- Hoop after he left his home to attend an Old Year’s Night party with his friend. The young man claimed that he was drugged by his friend and others who raped him repeatedly and locked him in a building and returned to commit the act again; and when they were finished they let him go and threatened to kill him and destroy his family.
On Friday Ms. Persaud said that she was informed by doctors that her son might have a 50/50 chance of returning to normalcy, given the levels of shock and trauma he has suffered.
