–over assault of Lowlands teenager

By Alva Solomon

POLICE on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) are still hunting for a man who assaulted a teenage girl in the community of Lowlands last Monday night, amidst reports that the suspect has been seen in the area following the incident.The teenager’s mother told this newspaper last week that her daughter was attacked by the man after she disembarked a minibus near the “Hope Turn”. The area is usually dark at nights and after making inquiries about someone called “Mark”, the man grabbed the teenager’s neck and dragged her into a nearby cemetery where he later left her, bound and gagged, in a muddied state.

The young lady’s mother told this newspaper Tuesday that persons in the area reported seeing the man at a wash bay further up the ECD, in the village of Ann’s Grove soon after the incident. She said persons recognized the muddied state of the Honda CG motorcycle which the man rides. He is described by persons at Lowlands as a serial rapist.

The woman said that alert persons at Lowlands saw a car in the village this week and a man in the vehicle was asking persons “if the girl dead”. She said the car’s registration number was reported to the police and checks by relatives revealed that the car is owned by someone who resides at Vryheid’s Lust, also on the East Coast.

“There are more questions than answers and I want the police to find this man because I can’t sleep,” she related Tuesday.

She said that a man was picked up by the ranks at the Cove and John Police Station on Monday night but her daughter related that he was not the suspect following an identification parade.

“This man, the police know him and I think they need to find him,” she said. Last weekend, this publication reported on the incident, which occurred around 19:00hrs, soon after the woman’s daughter disembarked a minibus. After the assault the young lady sought assistance from persons on the Railway Line Embankment.

A medical examination indicated that the teenager, who sat the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams last year, was physically, but not sexually assaulted .