Abduction hits Mona again
November 15, 2008
While the police are insisting that they have not received any widespread reports of rape and abduction, another woman was yesterday taken against her will and later thrown naked from a car in Mona, St Andrew.
While residents suspect the victim was also raped, police have released little detail beyond confirming the incident.
The victim, said to be in her late 20s, was dumped near the intersection of Garden Boulevard and Palmetto Avenue in the community.
"She was seen lying on the sidewalk, resting her head on a pair of pants, before somebody came and gave her a sheet to cover up herself," a resident told The Gleaner.
Head of the St Andrew Central Police Division, Superintendent Terrence Bent, said the matter was being investigated by the Centre for Investigation of Sexual Offences and Child Abuse.
This incident is at least the third case of abduction that has occurred in that middle-class community.
Two weeks ago, a female student of a tertiary institution was abducted in Mona; another woman was taken from the community and then raped nearby.
Gang-initiation ritual
In light of the grave attacks against the nation's women, one voluntary organisation is examining whether the incidents are a ritual for initiation into criminal gangs.
Joyce Hewett, immediate past president of Woman Inc, said about five years ago, the organisation had to counsel several females who had been victims of similar acts carried out by a gang....
Author: Gleaner Reporter
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
