Corentyne police accused of beat
—taxi driver also reportedly assaulted; suffered br
Baldeo Budhram the next few hours by ran who took an oath to prote and serve surprised her, sh said.
In tears, she related this newspaper that th police started to ridicu both her and her son. “The say me son a play dram because me tell them n harass this boy, that he sic ly,” she said.
Filled with expletive the investigators the reportedly began to que tion the lad about the loc tion of the supposed mis ing phone. “Me keep tellin them that nobody na non thiefman. Me been a sit front seat and the driver th lost he phone say he had th phone on the backseat an me son pick it up…How h go drive in front and get h phone on the backseat? the woman questioned.
`He lash me this side firs and then he lash me the other side’
Jagnanand reported that around 7 pm, the police took h son aback the station in a room b when he returned, he was shakin and tears were running from h eyes. “But he tell me then that h alright, let me na worry…later, h tell me them lash he behind h neck back and me tell them me so get head problem”.
The woman further related th when they took her son to th other room, “Them get me stan up and brace the wall and tw male police, them tell me fa bra with strength and then he fire la and me start holla. He lash me th side first and then he lash me th other side”, the woman said, she broke into tears.
After composing herself, sh recalled, “Me turn round and as ‘Why ayo a lash me for that? M na thief nobody phone,’ and th he lash me in me knee.” She sa that all this happened while th policeman was cursing at her an questioning where the phone wa
The woman said that she w beaten with a wooden baton.
She reported to this newspap that while all this was happenin the station sergeant was ju upstairs. Jagnanand said that wh she began hollering, he came ou picked up his phone, and left.
The woman further recalle that after the police brought h son from the back, he blacked ou “One hour them get this boy l down from the bench, he a blac out and me a cry and beg them take he to the hospital and the refuse,” she reported.
“Me a take a water and wash h face and he a tell me, ‘Momm mommy me alright; a me head, me head’”, she stated, noting th her son was going in and out