Police have arrested a 27-year-old man for raping a 51-year-old woman at Mon Repos.
Reports are that the victim was attending a community event, when the alleged perpetrator followed her to a secluded area where she went to urinate, and attacked her.
The incident reportedly occurred at around 10 p.m. Sunday, February 21, 2016.
The victim who spoke with St. Lucia News Online (SNO) on Thursday said that she went behind a Pre-school to urinate and while she was about to pull up her tights, she was attacked and raped.
“When I tried to pull up my tights, I felt like someone touched my back and when I was about to check, I fell on my back and the person was on me already. I tried to fight,” she explained.
But the alleged perpetrator managed to hold the woman tightly to the ground and choked her neck. He quickly spread her legs and proceeded to rape her.
“He said if I scream he would kill me. Now when I was on my back, I started praying and asked God to give me the strength and as soon as I finished praying, I just managed to push him off,” she recalled.
The victim told SNO that she was left half naked, but she was determined to get help, so she ran as fast as she could and screamed for help.
“When I reached close to a shop, I met a lady and she told me to pull up my pants. I left my slippers and my hair band fell off…everything I had was left behind, because I ran for my life,” she stated.
The distraught woman said she believe if she didn’t fight back, her alleged attacker may have killed her.
“I went to an officer there but he said he was off duty. I told him that I was raped and almost killed. He acted surprised. He gave me some attitude and he didn’t take me on,” she added.
The confused woman didn’t know what to do and who to turn to, so she decided to go home.
She related the story to her boyfriend and the next day she went to the Micoud Police Station to report the incident. She was then taken to a hospital for an medical examination.
While she did not recognize who her alleged attacker was, she later managed to identify the man with the help of residents. Persons had told her that they noticed the young man was watching her.
The following day, the man was arrested by police and to this date he remains in custody.
The victim told SNO that she is depressed by the situation and would like to see him face the full blunt of the law, while explaining that he is old enough to be her child.
The woman has five boys. Her eldest child is 30-years-old.
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