The recovery of the teenage girl who was viciously chopped by an older partner in a mining camp at Big Creek Backdam, North West District (NWD) last May has been a slow one.
The physical reminders of the attack are present—she walks with a limp now and her speech is partly slurred—though she is unable to recollect the episode, which is believed to be as a result of the removal of a part of her brain during emergency surgery at the Georgetown Hospital.
A source close to the case told Stabroek News that following the girl’s discharge from the hospital, where she spent several months recuperating,