By Sherah Alleyne
POLICE are investigating the circumstances under which a 21-year-old mother died after it was alleged that she was raped days before she succumbed.Reports are that the young woman who resides at a village on the Soesdyke/Linden Highway had left with her family to attend a wedding ceremony in Soesdyke on September 4, 2016. When she returned home early hours of the morning she realised that her fiancée was not at home and she went in search of him. After her search was unsuccessful, she boarded a bus at the Soesdyke junction, where she headed to New Diamond Housing Scheme to see her son, who lives with this father.
Following this it is reported that the woman then returned to the Soesdyke junction and boarded a bus with two male passengers to return home. However, instead of taking her to the location on the highway the driver turned the bus in the direction of Georgetown and proceeded in that direction.
After putting up a fight with the driver, it is alleged that he choked and cuffed her and then threw her out of the bus in the vicinity of Pearl, East Bank Demerara. Reports stated that the driver then reversed and pick her up and took her with the other two passengers to a lonely area in the Land of Canaan community where it is alleged that the driver raped the woman.
After losing consciousness the young woman then found herself on the public road at Land of Canaan in front of a gas station. She was then assisted by public-spirited citizens who took her to the Diamond Hospital. She was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she died. A postmortem would be conducted on Wednesday to ascertain the cause of death.