Ja: Sliding into lawless misogynistic barbarity

In about 10 minutes she was bundled out of the car and roughly hauled and shoved through a door and into what she describes as a "room filled with men". Throughout the night she was brutally raped by what could be about 14 men. Early in the morning, Friday it was, she begged them to release her, telling them that she had to go to school.

One laughed at her, saying that they could not go on the road because the police would be out in numbers by then. During the remainder of the day, Susie was repeatedly brutalised while the men made fun of it by boasting about how many girls "get tek wey".
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When my sources called me (Friday morning) about the abduction of the girl, I did not know then that the beasts who had brutalised, and were still in the process of raping Susie, had probably "tek wey" at least two other girls between Thursday night and Saturday morning.

One of these beasts had the temerity to forewarn a 16 year-old girl who was also abducted and raped. She was walking by a location on Eastwood Park Road when a young man made her know, in no uncertain terms, what he wanted to do with her. "He brandished a gun, showed it to me and said a nuff girl him tek wey."

Ten minutes later as she approached her gate, a white Toyota braked up, seized her, blindfolded her and threw her in the car trunk. Before she was blindfolded she recognised one of them as the one who had brandished the gun a few minutes earlier. While she was being raped at wherever she was, the men again joked that they were "f..r men" who had taken away many girls.

At one stage, she said she heard silent, guarded protests from a female voice. That was an indication that another girl was also being raped. At one stage, her blindfold slipped as one of the men said, "Dem gal yah thirsty. Gi dem some water."

One man then went to a bathroom and she saw through the door as he fetched water from the toilet tank and forced her to drink it.
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Based on information which I have pieced together, one of the girls raped was able to identify one of the kidnappers as he walked along Red Hills Road two days ago. She has not reported it to the police and is unsure whether she will do so.
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Raw criminality in inner-city communities is the sole prerogative of a few young sociopathic men who have decided on the "here and now". Impatience, illiteracy and too many guns allow them to drive fear into the hearts of the vast majority, too many of whom are similarly saddled by ignorance.

Susie assures me that she will not be "walking street" at midnight anymore. She has now joined the growing ranks of prisoner while the criminals and rapists roam free. They - the criminals - are the new wardens among us.

As long as the victims of these atrocities remain silent, the situation will never be changed. These are some of the self-same neighborhoods in Jamaica in which the police are afraid to venture. Nevertheless, the Jamaican government had better take steps to end the kidnapping and rape of young women because this problem will not remain within the confines of the poor and depressed neighborhoods; it will be just a matter of time before the predators begin seizing the daughters of the middle and upperclass.