The reason: she was robbed of her husband’s pay pocket and her baby daughter was both robbed (of her jewelry) and beaten.

The woman, Sonia Persaud, of Lima, Essequibo Coast, said yesterday after that traumatic experience that the city was much too unsafe for her liking.

It was for her an unforgettable experience.

The Essequibo woman told this newspaper yesterday that she is extremely poor and came to the city last Tuesday to collect $20,000 from Prettipaul Singh’s Investment Company, where her husband works. She decided to bring her only child, Keisha, with her for the outing, since they don’t visit Georgetown often.

She said that she was in the vicinity of DEMICO House in the Stabroek area, after receiving the money from her husband’s workplace, when three men suddenly walked up to her and grabbed her bag in which she had the money. Not satisfied with their booty, the bandits ordered the woman to take off her baby’s five gold rings, 2 pairs of gold bands and one pair of gold bangles.

Help for robbed Essequibo woman

Minister within the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security Bibi Shaddick and Information Liaison to the President Robert Persaud and little Keisha Persaud still in her cast.

When it seemed to them that she wasn’t doing what they asked fast enough, they snatched the jewels from little Keisha, in the process breaking the toddler’s left hand.

“The things dem tek time fuh come off from de baby, but them (the robbers) bin hurry so them grabble she and tek de things off themselves wid force,” the woman recalled.

Ms. Persaud said that in an apparent bid to intimidate or frighten her, the robbers beat Keisha to unconsciousness and she has spent the past week with her baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital, where the toddler was admitted after the incident.

The woman said her family does not know what happened since they don’t have a telephone. She was expected to return to her Lima, Essequibo Coast home yesterday.

Brickdam Police are investigations the incident.