“Look I went every way fuh justice, every way I tell you and I not getting any justice. So I just come to talk and let people know what I going through. It is hard and is long I being tormented and I just fed up. But I leaving it up to God.”
The words of a 33-year-old mother of three who walked into the Robb Street office of Guyana Publication Inc (publisher of the Stabroek News and Sunday Stabroek) and requested to see a reporter. More than four hours later she was still at the newspaper by which time her seven-year-old daughter had fallen asleep.
The story she told is tragic. It meanders around her alleged continued torment from the new partner of the father of her last child, poverty, being failed by a system that is supposed to help and more horrifying, the statutory rape of her 13-year-old daughter who is yet to be counselled even though the mother reported that she approached the relevant authorities.