A woman is fighting for her life after she was attacked by her common-law husband on New Year’s Day.
Her injuries are the worst Shaunell Warrick has sustained at the hands of the man with whom she has had an on-again/off-again relationship for over 15 years.
Warrick, 39, of 3471 Stevedore Housing Scheme, sustained head injuries as a result of a beating with a cutlass, relatives said. Warrick, a mother of two and a teacher at the East Street Nursery School, was attacked at the man’s home, at Crane, West Coast Demerara.
The woman has a fractured skull and doctors have told her family that she has a “50/50” chance of survival.
Angela Warrick recalled that on Old Year’s night, she and her daughter were supposed to go to church. However, Shaunell changed her mind after the taxi that was supposed to pick them up took a very long time to arrive.
Angela said she went to church on her own and when she returned home around 1am on New Year’s Day she did not check to see if her daughter was at home. Later, around 3am, she was awakened by a telephone call. The caller, she said, told her, “Come quick, ya daughter deh at the hospital. The man seh she meet with an accident.“
The woman said she became distraught and sent other relatives to the hospital. She said she later learned that it was the man’s brother-in-law who called her. She also learnt that the man had beaten Shaunell with a cutlass.
In the High Dependency Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital, Warrick was receiving oxygen and her face was swollen. According to relatives, the incident was not the first time the woman was attacked by the man.
Fellow teacher and long time friend Donna Murray recalled one instance while Warrick was a teacher at the East Ruimveldt Nursery School, where the man made an attempt on Warrick’s life but only burst her head and bruised her side. “I advised her to leave him regardless of your son or whatever,” Murray said. Murray added that Warrick kept going back to the man because “she believes that you must forgive.” “She has a heart of gold; she is a very peaceful and forgiving person. She believe if you do good, good will follow you,” Murray said.
Meanwhile, according to Warrick’s son, since the attack the man has been calling the family and making threats.
