The Guyana Women’s Miners Organization (GWMO) yesterday rescued a woman and her teenaged daughter who said they were being held against their will at a location in Region Eight.
Head of the organization Simona Broomes told Stabroek News last evening that the two were brought out of the interior location earlier in the day after one of the organization’s members, Marina Charles, was alerted about the matter.
“One of our members was in an interior location when she overheard a man verbally abusing a woman and her 14-year-old daughter in a room for hours… This morning [yesterday] she opened the door and when the man saw her he told them to be quiet because she is from an organization and she will take away the child,” she said.
Broomes said that the man who was identified as the child’s father and who she had not seen in eight years told her that he has a shop and house in the interior and she agreed to go and visit him. “She [the child] was happy to see him… They travelled to the area on December 21 and when they got there he was just renting a room. They had to sleep on one bed and do whatever he told them to do. He started making sexual passes at the daughter… The mother was upset and scared and he told them that he will only allow them to go if they made him feel good.”
Broomes informed that after Charles rescued the woman and the child and put them in a bus, the man entered the bus and attempted to remove them. “The bus stopped at Mabura and he was trying to pull them out of the bus. The driver of the bus drove the bus into the Wismar Police Station but they didn’t arrest the man. He came out of the bus…”
She also said that she tried making several calls to the ‘E’ Division commander and another commander in Linden in the hope that they would arrest the man, but was unsuccessful since she could not contact either of them.
She told this newspaper that several members from the organisation waited at the bus park for the woman and her child and took them to the Human Services Ministry and Child Care and Protection Agency and today they will accompany them to the police station.
