75 YO WOMAN BRUTALLY RAPED IN ORANGE HILL

A 75-year-old woman, who was attacked and raped at her home in Orange Hill in this parish on Friday night, remained hospitalised yesterday, with doctors saying that her wounds will take some time to heal.

The senior citizen, who was home alone at the time of the horrific incident, is said to be in both physical and emotional pain. An 18-year-old man has since been heldin connection with the incident and is set to face an identification parade.

“She is …suffering physical pain and mental trauma,” Delroy Redway, councillor for the Brown’s Town Division, told the

Jamaica Observer on Tuesday.

The councillor, who described the attack as “brutal”, is among scores of people who have openly condemned the incident, which he said had not only caused shock but had left the residents of Orange Hill angry and disappointed.
“I am deeply moved by it… my heartfelt sympathies to her, to the family. She was brutalised… an animal type of arrangement,” an upset Redway told the Observer during a telephone interview.

It is alleged that a group of youngsters broke into the woman’s house, which she shared with her daughter. It is theorised that robbery may have been the initial motive, but that the culprits took advantage of the fact that the woman was home alone.

Yesterday, Redway called on residents to tell the police all they know to speed up the investigation into the matter.