{"id":537,"date":"2017-08-11T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=537"},"modified":"2017-08-11T21:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T21:28:13","slug":"girl-survives-savage-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=537","title":{"rendered":"Girl Survives Savage Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Raped, buggered, stabbed and left for dead<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Michael Nattoo<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">I<\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">magine stumbling upon the unconscious, bloodied and beaten body of a young woman, who was evidently raped, buggered, and left for dead. Imagine learning that the victim is suffering from a cracked skull, a slashed throat, blunt force injury to the left ear, a stab wound to the right eye, and a back scarred from attempts to burn her alive. Now imagine learning that this is your daughter. This is not the scene from a dark movie, but the trauma experienced by Claudine Spence, when she found her 17-year-old daughter a day after she had gone missing, after leaving home to get credit for her phone.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Claudine Spence, mother of the 17-year-old, in an exclusive interview with the <\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Western Mirror<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">, revealed the details of the incident that has left her daughter fighting for her life, and her family in shambles. \u201cOn the 28th of July, a Friday evening, Jamie* (not her real name) went to a nearby shop, which was less than 10 minutes away, to get a phone card,\u201d Spence began, indicating that this was about 6 pm that day. \u201cAbout 6:35, when she did not return home, I attempted to call her phone, but did not get through to her.\u201d Spence explained that as her suspicions grew, she decided to visit the Montego Police Station to make a report, after Jamie\u2019s two brothers\u2019, one 21 and the other 8 years old, search for her turned up nothing.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI sat up all night on Friday, trying to figure out where she could have been. I know my daughter, she would have been home already, so I feared something was wrong,\u201d Spence told the <\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Western Mirror<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">. After organizing a search party that night, which also turned up unsuccessful in finding Jamie, Spence sunk further into despair, fearing the worst to have happened to her daughter, who had only a month before graduated high school, where she was a prefect and model student. The following morning, Saturday July 29, an early search party revealed a most gruesome discovery.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">THE DISCOVERY<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Jamie\u2019s bloodied and unconscious body, seemingly moments away from death, was found in bushes in her community of Bogue Hill in St. James. \u201cShe was practically dead,\u201d Spence relayed to the <\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Western Mirror<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">. It gets worse, as details revealed by doctors indicate a far more gruesome picture than many had suspected when they found the teen in the early hours of the morning. \u201cShe had a cracked skull, resulting in fragments of her brain being hit \u2013 as a result of them using a stone to hit her in her head,\u201d Spence told this newsroom. \u201cThey stabbed her in the right eyeball, so I\u2019m not sure if she\u2019ll be able to see once she is conscious, her throat was slashed, she was buggered; her left hand is not moving \u2013 something doctors suspect may be nerve damage, and they battered her left ear with a stone.\u201d It was also discovered that the teen\u2019s back was badly burnt, not from acid, as has been incorrectly reported, but from an unidentified chemical the perpetrators doused the teen with, before setting her on fire.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI\u2019m just trying to be strong for her, but I\u2019m hurting\u2026 I\u2019m angry, and I\u2019m sad, but I\u2019m trying to be strong for her,\u201d Spence offered, when asked how she has been coping in the aftermath of that incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">SUPPORT<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">For Spence, who has spent all of her 41 years alive in that community, expressed that she has witnessed incidents of crime before, but none of this magnitude, referring to what has happened to her daughter.<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cSince that happened to Jamie, it has brought the whole community closer together, and I am getting a lot of support.\u201d Despite the strong sense of community, and individuals expressing their warmth and empathy to Spence\u2019s family, a silent anger brews among residents. \u201cCommunity members here want the perpetrators to be caught, but by them, not by the police,\u201d Spence revealed. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">For Jamie\u2019s brothers, who both adore their sister, the tragedy is weighing on them in different ways. For the elder brother, who is 21, silence, and a loss of appetite since the traumatic experience has been his expression of the hurt. \u201cHe is very protective of his sister, so much so that he wouldn\u2019t allow her to go to certain places in MoBay,\u201d Spence said, \u201cso to see this happen, I don\u2019t know what he is thinking, but I know he is hurting.\u201d For the younger brother, the eight-year-old, Spence told the <\/span><b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Western Mirror<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"> that despite him asking constantly for her, she does not intend to give him the full details of what happened until he is older.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Jamie has since been visited by members of her school community, who remembers her as a punctual student, as well as her commitment to reaching school early in the mornings, just so she could help to prepare breakfast for the students who were on the breakfast programme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u201cI will not let this rest. We will pursue this for as long as we need to. We need justice,\u201d Spence concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The police are treating the incident as abduction, rape, buggery, and attempted murder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raped, buggered, stabbed and left for dead Michael Nattoo Staff Reporter Imagine stumbling upon the unconscious, bloodied and beaten body of a young woman, who was evidently raped, buggered, and left for dead. 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