Brutally raped and later sexually assaulted twice by different persons was three times too many for Simone Daniels. And so last Saturday morning when she was attacked by a “very sick man” she defended herself by stabbing him in the chest with a small “penknife” she had in her possession for protection.
This is how the 27-year-old mother of five tells the story of why she stabbed 33-year-old Anthony Mark Fredericks at around 1.30am on Saturday morning as she was making her way home along a dark, desolate stretch of land in Barnwell North, Mocha Acadia East Bank Demerara.
Simone is not ashamed of who she is and readily admits that she has been addicted to alcohol for many years, but she would also tell you that for the last year she has been undergoing counselling as she fights the addiction. That addiction led to the