A YOUNG woman was allegedly raped on Monday night while being transported in a Route #42 (Georgetown to Timehri) minibus on her way home.

“I got off from work at 10pm, I caught a bus to go home, the driver picked me up from Providence along with two other girls…the two girls stopped off at the Diamond car park, I was the only one left in the bus before he drove off from the car park. I told him I’m coming off at Tank Street and he (the driver) said ok,” the young lady related.

The traumatised woman said the bus driver while driving into Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) slowed down the minibus and asked her “Tank Street for you? I said yes.”

She explained that after estimating the time the bus should arrive at her destination she bent her head for about two minutes. “When I looked up back he was going with full speed and the music got louder after he passed my stop. I called and called and called for him, he ignored for five times, then he slowed down turned down the music and asked if I’m sure I said Tank Street, that he said he heard Friendship, then he turned and said that I need to get a Timehri bus to go back, so I was like why do I need a Timehri bus?,” she explained.

Demanding that the driver stop the minibus and let her out, the woman said that the driver then turned up the music and began to speed up the road as she began hitting the windows begging to be put off, but the driver only stopped when they reached New Hope, EBD.

“At the bypass at New Hope was where he turned in and turned off the engine and he started climbing backwards towards me asking if I’m sure I said Tank Street. I said yes but he still kept coming, so I screamed and asked what he was doing? He didn’t answer, he kept coming and when he reached to me I was about to scream again when he raised his fist as a warning to hit me and he told me to take off my clothes, so I did and then he raped me,” she revealed.

She said that after the bus driver was finished he started cleaning up the minibus and told her “I know what I’m doing,” and asked if she was married and other personal questions. The driver, she said, demanded that she move to the front passenger seat of the minibus and he later dropped her off at the street which she initially asked to be put off.

“ I didn’t get the licence plate all I got was inside the bus, the windshield had ‘Money Train’ I don’t need anyone’s pity, I just want people to acknowledge that there’s a psycho out there and females need to be careful,” she finally said.