While acid attack victim Rachel Chadee remains in the hospital under police guard, her mother and three children are living like prisoners in their own home. Since their mother’s attack on February 22, pensioner Leela Chadee said she has not sent her grandchildren to school and does not allow them to go outside.
“I don’t know his intention and he all over the place. People seeing him in south and they not telling the police,” Chadee said in a telephone interview yesterday. She appealed to the police to patrol the area regularly and check in with her.
“I am praying every single minute of the day. I pray that they will hold him,” she said. The children, 13, nine and five years old, keep asking when their mother will come home, but Chadee has not taken them to see her.
“I cannot let them see her in that condition,” she said, adding, “We have to be indoors all the time, we don’t know where he is. He is dangerous.” Thirty-year-old Rachel was attacked by her ex-lover, who broke into her La Romaine home armed with a knife, two bottles of acid, rope and rolls of duct tape. He slashed her on her face with the knife, doused her with acid and also forced her to swallow it.
Chadee said her daughter’s condition has improved, but she still has a lot of pain.
“I was there in the San Fernando hospital yesterday, she coming along. She eating very little because her throat still swollen. She talking but you cannot understand anything.”
She said her daughter communicates with her by typing on her cell phone. San Fernando police are investigating and have identified Ronald Bissoon as a person of interest in their investigation.