Granny stabbed 16 times but survives attack
Senior Reporter
kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt
A Princes Town mother had to lock her doors and hide under a bed with her children after a man broke into her family home on Tuesday and stabbed 82-year-old Emblyn Adams 16 times.
Neighbours were concerned about the incident, which occurred along Centenary Street, Princes Town, but it did not surprise a few.
While police investigate the crime as a burglary, some residents said it was not.
A report stated that Adams secured her home, went to bed around 11 pm on Monday and awoke around 12.15 am Tuesday, after she felt someone over her. She saw a man armed with a knife, who stabbed her several times in her abdomen and on her shoulder, back and left cheek.
As Adams continued her recovery at the San Fernando General Hospital yesterday, a relative told Guardian Media she was asleep in the upstairs apartment when a commotion jolted her around midnight. As she peered out of her gallery, she saw a male relative running down the street, saying to go inside. She took her children inside to hide, thinking they were in danger.
“When I heard the noise, I said, ‘You all come; go inside and go under the bed.’ The two who were downstairs had run upstairs already.”
Minutes later, her son came upstairs and informed her that someone had stabbed Adams, who stayed on the ground-floor apartment with two of her grandchildren. As the relative went downstairs, she saw blood. She contacted Princes Town police as family members attended to Adams’ wounds before taking her to the nearby Princes Town District Health Facility.
The attacker did not harm the grandchildren. They were asleep and only got up when they heard Adams’ cries.
The relative said it appeared Adams got up to use the bathroom when the attacker passed through an open backdoor. As for the reason for the attack, she could not say, as Adams was a quiet person who never interfered with anyone. She said Adams does not go anywhere.
While she said Adams is doing well, speaking and laughing with family members, the incident traumatised her children, who struggled to eat, trembled and cried following the incident.
The T&T Police Service counsellors are expected to visit the family today.
“It is not nice because the person does not have a heart. They need God in their life, and to see an elderly person like that, it is not nice to do a thing like that to somebody.”
With the number of killings occurring daily, the relative said authorities should remove mentally ill people from society and put them somewhere they can get help.
“Oh gosh! It is not nice. We need more of God in this country, and I think that when people are ‘mental’ they need to take them out of society. Take them to a place and counsel them or something. Do not leave them outside to hurt somebody else.”
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