Following the gruesome murder of the US-based Guyanese woman, allegedly by her husband, last Sunday in Queens, New York, one of the couple’s daughters residing in Guyana is claiming that her mother suffered years of abuse at the hands of the suspect.
According to Shalini Ramjiawan her parents have been together for over 30 years. However, she recalled that on numerous occasions her mother, Rajwantie Baldeo, was subjected to domestic abuse at the hands of her father, who had also threatened to kill her on numerous occasions before.
“My father is an alcoholic, and he is very ignorant. When he drinks, he would beat my mother very bad,” Ramjaiwan said.
The grieving daughter related to media operatives in Guyana that just before her mother had left Guyana in September to travel to New York, her father had stated that “he would kill her before she could leave”.
After leaving Guyana on a US Visitor’s Visa, Baldeo reportedly secured a job as a cook in Queens, New York, and was expected to return to her native country in February 2017.
Baldeo’s daughter believes that her father, Prem Ramperssud, had planned the killing of her mother. Her conviction was premised on the reports from neighbours- in the village where her parents lived while in Guyana- that her father Rampersaud, had told them that he was going abroad to kill the woman.
According to Baldeo’s relatives, they were told that she [Baldeo] was attacked shortly after she finished her shift at a restaurant, and due to the many marks of violence about her body, speculations were that Baldeo was beaten severely before she was stabbed multiple times. Her neck was nearly decapitated, according to reports in New York media.
Guyana Times International was also told that the suspect was caught red handed by two persons, while he was in the process of sawing his wife’s neck off.
Rampersaud had reportedly confronted Baldeo about an online relationship he suspected she was having.
The 50-year-old suspect was charged with murder and will face trial in New York soon.
