The Jamaica Star :: News :: Victim stabs wannabe rapist

By Dwight Nelson, Star Writer

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A 22-year-old man is now in critical condition in hospital after a woman he is alleged to have been attempting to rape stabbed him several times on Monday, THE STAR understands.

Police say the man, for whom they had been searching for in connection with several other cases of rape in the May Pen area, has not been charged because of the seriousness of his condition in the May Pen Hospital, Clarendon.

He had turned up for treatment for stab wounds, but while at the hospital, police say another woman pointed him out as the man who raped her last Saturday. A report given to the police said that the latest person he attempted to rape, a 27-year-old model, was tricked into visiting the man's home after he promised to sponsor her in a beauty contest.

Shortcut

It is reported that when she went to his district, he took her to some bushes, telling her it was a shortcut to his house.

In the bushes she was held at knifepoint after she became suspicious and decided not to go further.

In recalling her ordeal for THE STAR, the young woman said, "He then grabbed my bag after which he hit me in the back with a stone. He then pulled out a ratchet knife and gave me a stab in my right hand. I got very scared at that moment and asked God, what I had got myself into."

Calmed down

She further said, "I, however tried to talk him into not doing anything more foolish. I also told him that I love him, that is why I travel so far to see him, in a bid for him not to hurt me. At that point he calmed down and asked me for sex."

She said she was asked to take off her clothes so she attempted to stall his intentions by requesting that he use a condom. "He said no and I told him I will go to the shop and get one, but he said he does not have sex using condoms.

I got the strength and used my body to push him and he fell between two trees and I jumped down on him and we started to fight. I bit him and managed to get the knife from him and I stabbed him in his belly several times and gave him a cut in his throat."

The victim took out her phone to call the police and the 'wannabe' rapist fled. He was later accosted at the hospital after he was pointed out when he turned up there for treatment.