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Abusive husband sets woman on fire A 25-year-old housewife was badly burnt on Wednesday night by her reputed husband over a pack of baby milk which he thought was given to her by another man. Latoya Jones of ‘B’ Field Sophia is currently nursing severe burns to her neck, both hands, back, abdomen and her right foot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.
Tuesday September 25, 2012
Kaieteur News
Yesterday, a sobbing Jones said that the burning stemmed from an altercation she and her husband had earlier that week. The mother of four said that a female friend of hers had given her a pack of milk for her baby two Mondays ago but her husband thought that it was given to her by his competition. “He come home on Monday and he see the milk
and he ask me who give that to me and I say one of my friend at the corner of the street. Then he start curse and beat me and then on Tuesday he beat me again because of the milk,” the 25year-old house-wife lamented. She said that on Wednesday, the father of her two youngest children went home drunk some time after 23:00hrs and “before he start
cussing and beating me I tell he to stop and I pick up the lamp to go cook roti. He start cussing me and telling me that he will burn me and he left.” The woman recalled that her reputed husband returned a few minutes later and ordered her to hold the lamp in her hands. He then threw gasoline on her. She was immediately rushed to GPHC by her neighbours. Her two youngest children were also admitted to the hospital for smoke inhalation but were later discharged. Kaieteur News was unable to contact the
The sobbing Jones
woman’s reputed husband but was told that he works with the Ministry of Public Works. The mother of four is
pleading with the authorities to help put her husband behind bars. “He does beat me steady and nobody nah do anything.”