“SHE is now in a safe place,” the 62-year-old mother who has been accused of imprisoning her daughter in squalid conditions in a room of her home said, as she alluded to the woman being admitted to the Psychiatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).On Friday, the 31-year-old daughter was transferred from the Suddie Public Hospital to the GPH, where she is undergoing treatment. The transfer comes approximately one week after she was discharged from the Suddie Public Hospital, where she had been an in-patient for two weeks after being rescued from being confined in a faeces-filled room.

In an interview with the Guyana Chronicle on Sunday, the mother said she would forever be grateful to the medical team at the Suddie Public Hospital, who did not force her child out of the hospital after she had been discharged, but instead sought a better alternative for her accommodation.

“I don’t know how long she would be there for, but I am happy that she is in a safe place, getting the treatment she needs,” the woman said. She was a part of the team that assisted in the transfer of her daughter, who is now considered to be mentally ill.

“God is in charge and all is well. You know, what man cannot do, God can, because he is a miracle-working God,” the woman added.

The mother of three told reporters and local officials that she was forced to lock her daughter away for two primary reasons: they both were victims of rape; and the daughter, after becoming ill seven years ago, had become violent in recent years.

But even with her daughter away from the home, the mother is still living in fear. “I feel as though I can’t sleep in my own home. I feel as though I am not free to live here, because all over bar up, everywhere nail up. How long will I have to live like this?” she asked rhetorically.

She, along with her son who visits periodically, had to put extra security measures in place at the home after both mother and daughter had allegedly become victims of rape. They allegedly were last raped in December 2015. According to her, they were repeatedly raped by a man who is no stranger to the police; however, he is on the run in the interior.

“When something like that happen to you, you could never be the same. You are always afraid; there is always that fear,” she noted.

She hopes that, sooner rather than later, justice will be served.