Thirty-four-year-old Sandy Persaud continues to live in fear as police in Region Six have failed to arrest her partner of four years who brutally chopped her about her body earlier this month resulting in her now being unable to move around on her own.
Persaud, also known as `Baby’, 34, of Number 55 Village was rushed to the Skeldon Public Hospital on April 5th after which she was transferred to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery and was hospitalized for several weeks before being released recently.
The attacker was identified as her partner who she separated from in February, Sasenarine Bridgemohan Sankar also known as `Wire’, 47, a barber.
Persaud told the Sunday Stabroek that she was at her mother’s house when the man invaded the premises and began chopping her about her body around 5 am.
“I was on the bed and my son get up to go work and he (suspect) like he went around the area and when my son open the door he walk in the door and just start chop me… He chop me all over and walk down the step then walk up back and chop me in me head”, she said.
Persaud is nursing chop injuries to her head, both legs, fingers and back.
Relatives had said that before they could respond the man had already dealt Persaud several chops about her body and broadsided her elderly mother who attempted to intervene.
Commander of Region Six, Shivpersaud Bacchus when contacted last week said that police were searching for the suspect.
Persaud told this newspaper that she received a call from the Commander last week informing her that ranks would visit to obtain a statement from her.
The woman then expressed her disappointment in the police for not being able to arrest the man despite him continuing to make threats against her and her family members.
“He call my brother and say he gonna kill my brother and kill me and my daughter… He say he do the first half done and got to do the second half. Nobody na want keep me… Stranger keeping me because everybody scared. I can’t walk on my own them got to hold me to walk and me got to continue to hide out because them na arrest he”, she lamented.
The Sunday Stabroek was previously told that the man who has been abusive throughout the relationship attacked the woman in February resulting in her seeking medical attention at the Port Mourant Hospital after which she proceeded to a cousin’s house located out of the region.
A frustrated Persaud explained that after the February incident, she separated from Sankar. She said, the man had been abusive towards her continuously but after that last incident she decided that she would break free from him once and for all.
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According to her, she proceeded to Georgetown to stay with a relative, however, the suspect began posting explicit images of her on social media while making threats which she has recorded.
It was due to this that she decided to return to the Ancient County to file a police report. However, after she returned to the Corentyne area one week before the chopping incident, the man attacked her with a knife while she was running errands. Two passers-by rescued her and chased him away.
He then proceeded to send several voice messages to the woman in which he threatened repeatedly to kill her and continued to stalk the woman until the chopping attack.
She said, “It get overbearing and I go Whim (Police Station) and make a report for a restraining order but they didn’t give he nothing… They give me a paper and I took it to (Number) 51 (station) and the police there tell me which day to go court and that if I can go with them to he house to try catch him but me tell them no because me scared.”
Persaud revealed that it was the morning of the day she was supposed to appear at the Number 51 Magistrate’s Court to obtain a restraining order that she was attacked. “That was the day I was supposed to go court and he come in and chop me up.”
Persaud, a domestic worker, pleaded with the authorities to nab the suspect, stressing that “until them catch he me got to deh a hide.”
The mother of two said that she is unable to work and is getting by with whatever help is provided by her family but due to the man not being in custody, she is afraid to provide her contact number or location to persons who may want to assist her.
