RAPED ABROAD: Jamaican woman fears for her life after attack in The Bahamas....“Mi fraid! Mi fraid! God know mi fraid!” These are the cries of a Jamaican woman who alleges that she was abducted and raped by a senior immigration officer

Jamaican woman fears for her life after attack in The Bahamas

By Noelle Nicolls, Gleaner Writer
NASSAU, Bahamas:“Mi fraid! Mi fraid! God know mi fraid!” These are the cries of a Jamaican woman who alleges that she was abducted and raped by a senior immigration officer in The Bahamas earlier this week. 

After the traumatic series of events unfolded, the victim said her attacker “had the nerve” to supply his phone number, suggest they could date, and ask for a kiss before leaving her. The incident unfolded even as The Bahamas is under intense international scrutiny for its recently amended immigration policy, which came into effect on November 1. 

Human rights critics have blasted successive governments over their failure to seriously address repeated claims of corruption and human-rights abuse at the Department of Immigration. 

The Jamaican woman, who is from Ocho Rios, St Ann, said the ordeal began early on the morning of Saturday, December 13, when police arrested 11 women on suspicion of prostitution during a raid at a local bar. Police reported the raid in their weekend crime report. 

Off all the women picked up, the alleged victim, who worked as a bartender, was the only employee. 
The low-key bar sits on the bottom floor of a rundown two-storey plaza in a part of town under police radar. The woman says the minimum-wage salary she earns at the bar goes towards feeding her three young children. more