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Kaieteur News
Tuesday September 03, 2013
Hero mom killed by drunk driver (Trinidad Express) Mother of four, Denyse Seepersad-Joseph, died a hero on Independence Day, when she threw her daughter out of her arms as a speeding car slammed into them. Seepersad-Joseph, 39, was struck by the vehicle and died at the scene. Her fouryear-old daughter Abigail was saved. Little Abigail was being treated at the San Fernando General Hospital for minor injuries last evening. The child’s father, Richard Joseph, said his wife lived for their four children. “Everyone is saying that she threw the child out of her arms to safety. She was a kind, loving person. She lived only for her children. She was actively involved in the church,” he said. Seepersad-Joseph, a housewife, was visiting relatives at Palmyra Village, near San Fernando when the
incident occurred around 7.30 p.m. Police said SeepersadJoseph parked her Volkswagen Bora car on the roadway and was taking her daughter out of the vehicle. Seepersad-Joseph, of Brother’s Road, New Grant, was struck by a yellow Nissan Laurel car. The driver never stopped. Police said Abigail was flung from her mother’s arms at the side of the roadway. Her mother was crushed by the car. The accident was witnessed by SeepersadJoseph’s four children— Jason, 13, Charissa, nine, Ana, six, and Abigail. Richard Joseph said, “My wife and kids were visiting relatives. Her father, brother, sister-in-law and their kids were with her at the time. I understand she parked the car and was taking out our daughter when they were hit.” Joseph said he was at work in Point Fortin when
relatives called with the news. “I went to the hospital. My wife was already dead. Abigail was being treated by doctors,” he said. Police said the child was not seriously injured. Relatives said SeepersadJoseph’s children were distraught and unable to come to terms with their mother’s death. Investigators said a 44-year-old Palmyra resident walked into the San Fernando Police Station shortly after the incident. The man told police he “knocked down something” on the road. Police said a breathalyser test was administered on the driver and he failed. The driver was detained by police and is expected to be charged with the offence. S e e p e r s a d - J o s e p h ’s body was removed to the San Fernando General Hospital mortuary, where an autopsy is expected to be performed today.
Prison time for phone threat to rape, mutilate and kill woman AFTER pleading guilty to telephoning a woman and threatening to rape, mutilate and kill her, Ian Roy was sentenced to four months in prison. The 49-year-old was spared the maximum sentence of six months because he had no prior convictions and pleaded guilty on the first available opportunity. According to the facts read out by Inspect Gale Charles, Roy telephoned a woman on August 15 and told her he would rape her twice and then threatened her that he would “hang up yuh panty”. The woman made a report to the Maraval Police Station. Roy also sent numerous “Call me Requests” to the woman and left a voice message saying he would rape her, slit her throat, cut off her breasts and leave them at a police station and place her underwear on an electrical wire.
The Cyber Crime Unit of the police service was contacted, Charles read, and the man’s number was traced. The calls took place on August 15, 18 and 19, said Charles. Roy, after listening to the facts, told magistrate Cheron Raphael that he was “apologetics” for what he did and promised that it would never happen again. He said that he and his girlfriend had recently broken up and he was stressed and just dialed a number. Charles told the magistrate that women were under siege in this country and that a strong message should be sent to both Roy and “persons of his ilk”. Charles said the message must be sent so that women could at least answer their phones in peace. Raphael agreed and sentenced Roy, of Mulchan Street, Guaico, Sangre Grande to serve four months in prison. Roy upon hearing his sentence told the magistrate “Thanks very much ma’am”.