A man is on the run after he allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend under her chin with a knife on Tuesday, just moments after she arrived from a police station where she unsuccessfully sought a restraining order against him. The order was granted the day after the stabbing.
Michelle Baker, 19, of ‘B’ Field, South Sophia is now afraid to leave her home after Jason Henry, her ex-boyfriend and the father of her one-year-old child allegedly attacked her. Baker, who is currently recovering, told Stabroek News that she wants the police to do their job in finding and arresting her ex-boyfriend.
According to the teen, on Tuesday, she had just made her way home from the Vigilance police station when Henry attacked her from behind and wrestled her to the road, a few houses away from her home. “I was coming out a bus and I was walking going through the street when I felt someone behind me and the person put me in a vice”, Baker recounted to Stabroek News.
The young mother said that she tried to fight off the person and while in the struggle she recognised the person to be her child father. Baker said that Henry tried to twist her throat and she felt a burning sensation under her chin.
The young mother said that she managed to escape Henry when a stranger intervened and tried to wrestle Henry off of her. The teen told Stabroek News that she ran home and called out for her mother who was there at the time.
Baker said it was her mother who recognised that she was hurt and bleeding. The woman said that the stranger who had rescued her, told her mother that after the scuffle, Henry threw what appeared to be a shoemaker’s knife into a trench and he ran away.
Paula Thomas, the teen’s mother told Stabroek News that she rushed her daughter to the Georgetown Public Hospital. There the teen received eight stitches and was sent away by the doctor.
Protection
Baker said that the reason she had visited the police station to take out the restraining order against Henry was because he had threatened to kill her. The teen said that when she went to Henry’s home to drop off milk and pampers for her child, Henry told her that he was going to end her life. Baker said that her ex-boyfriend had been accusing her of being in multiple relationships while she was dating him.
Baker said that day she told her mother about the threat that Henry made, and her mother advised her to take it to the police. Baker said that when she went to the police station, the clerk told her that she could not take out the restraining order against Henry because he was not living with her at the time and the threat was only made once.
The teen said she left the police station. Baker’s mother said the day after the incident she took her daughter along with her bloody clothes to the clerk who had told her she could not have gotten the order.
“I went to she [the clerk] and said, `look at the blood and look at my child face and she neck, if she die is your fault’” Paul told Stabroek News. “Right away she gave my daughter the order and he can’t come within 500 ft of her” the teen’s mother explained.
According to the teen’s mother, since the police have not apprehended Henry, she has done her own investigations about the whereabouts of her daughter’s ex-boyfriend. She said that she has alerted the police of his whereabouts and hope that they will arrest him. “I need the police to find him, so my daughter can move on with her life. We are both afraid of what he might do next”, Thomas related to Stabroek News.
