BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – WHAT was to have been a regular stroll to collect a piece of furniture from one house and transport it to another, turned into a violent encounter between a young mother and her estranged partner, who is the father of her children.
Kishma Woolard of Boyd’s Village was the victim of a stabbing incident which occurred shortly after noon on Sunday (Aug. 25).
Recalling the circumstances which led to the fateful incident, Woolard told SKNVibes that she – along with her sister – was walking through an alley, within which her children’s father resides, en route to another house from which they were to collect a chest-of-drawers.
She said while walking up the alley, they saw the assailant coming down and both females shifted to one side of the pathway to allow him to pass.
The walk back down the alley, Woolard explained, posed some difficulty because it was then that the attack took place.
“Coming back down, I was in front and I reached about two houses from his and I saw him coming up the alley. I had two drawers and my sister had two drawers and we were supposed to go back for the body of the chest-of-drawers. When he was coming up, he was coming towards me and he pushed me into the wall, pulled out an icepick from his waist and started stabbing me.”
The 27-year-old said she used the two drawers as shields in an attempt to ward off the attack, while her sister, having ditched the two drawers she carried, made an attempt to pull her to safety.
“She pulled me and told me to run. The drawers were destroyed. Both of us ran and he was following but he stopped. When we got to the house (their home) my sister checked to see if I got stabbed and she saw that I was bleeding. My father called the ambulance and it carried me to the hospital.”
SKNVibes understands that the perpetrator has been taken into police custody but is yet to be charged.
According to Woolard, that was not the first time that she had suffered injury or hurt at the hands of her children’s father. She declared that at one point he pelted her with a spool – on which electrical wire was coiled – and it struck her in the back.
She said she has made numerous reports to the Royal St. Christopher and Nevis Police Force against her assailant and would now be seeking to get a restraining order against him.
Woolard informed that she has had an “on and off” relationship with the perpetrator and three children – one boy and two girls – were produced. She complained of suffering at the hands of her estranged partner who exhibited bouts of jealousy whenever she would communicate with other males.
Both parties were scheduled to appear before the court today (Aug. 27) for a child-maintenance hearing.
