A Bushlot woman is thankful that she was able to survive a horrific chopping attack by her partner who she was with for four years. Nalicia Ragoonauth recalled that during the attack the man threw her to the floor and rubbed the chopper repeatedly on her neck as he told her that he would ensure he killed her then kill himself.
After the attack, the man, Ganesh Narine, 27, a carpenter, hanged himself in the house where he resided with Ragoonauth.
Ragoonauth, 24, of Lot 426 Bushlot Village, Corentyne, has since been released from the New Amsterdam Public Hospital and is home recovering. She sustained chop injuries to her neck, wrists and arms.
According to the woman, an intoxicated Narine launched the attack on her after she told him of her intention of separating from him. She said, he was worried about persons “laughing at him” if she was to leave him.
She explained to Stabroek News, that last Friday afternoon after her husband returned from work they were involved in an argument, “So me tell am if you know you na able live na more with me, me na able live na more with you, see and move out from this house, so me tell am tomorrow more na past, me gun go bring one police and you gun got to come out from this house suh me na able live na more with you.”
However, after the argument she and her son, who is eight years old, then proceeded to a neighbour’s birthday party and returned home around 9 pm. “When he come me open the door for him but when he drunk me doesn’t usually sleep next to him because he does threaten me steady he go kill me.”
She said she was sleeping in her son’s room when Narine began questioning her as to whether she was actually going to separate from him, ‘Me tell am yes, that me na able live na more with you like this, everyday something to the other, me na able with you.”
She stated that Narine then told her that if she was to leave him then “everybody go laugh am.”
According to the woman, she then continued to explain to him that she was tired of living with him due to the constant fighting. “Me just sleep and me na hear back nothing from am but then me hear somebody come in the room and me see he, me tell am wah he a do here and me tell am lef me and go sleep but he say he na go lef me let me get up pon the bed he want talk to me.”
It was then that the man informed her that he would not separate from her but “he go kill me and kill heself because everybody go laugh am if me lef am.”
Ragoonauth noted, that she tried to explain to him that no one would laugh at him but instead Narine began to curse at her after which he dealt her a chop, “Me na know say chop he chop me because me been still lay down pon the bed and then me feel the second one me start holla and then me son wake up and run out and he start fire the chop.”
She said, she began begging him to leave her alone since she was the mother of a young son, “He say he go kill me and kill heself and me tell am that na make sense, that me get one pickney to live fa and then he chop me and me bar with me hand and he throw me down and he take a chopper and start rub am pon me neck and me beg am na kill me and he say me done chop you bad already that me na go live.”
However, after the chopper fell from Narine’s hand the woman was able to make an escape. She ran out of the house and sent her son to call her brother, who was still at the birthday party, but before anyone could arrive, Ragoonauth had collapsed on the road.
She only learnt of Narine’s suicide after regaining consciousness at the health institution.
Ragoonauth is urging other victims of domestic violence to seek assistance immediately.
