The vic­tim of a hor­rif­ic chop­ping at­tack, Sa­ha­daye Ram­nath, 62, is ap­peal­ing for as­sis­tance to re­build her home or at least con­struct a one-room struc­ture where she can live.

Ram­nath was chopped about the face and hands al­leged­ly by a man she had known well for the past 27 years.

De­spite the hor­rif­ic in­ci­dent, Ram­nath said she has for­giv­en her at­tack­er but does not wish to be any­where near him again.

She said since the at­tack on De­cem­ber 20, she has had trou­ble sleep­ing.

Ram­nath said she wakes up in the mid­dle of the night trem­bling in fear that the man, who al­leged­ly sev­ered her thumb and chopped her about her face with a cut­lass, may re­turn to fin­ish her off.

Re­call­ing the ter­ror, Ram­nath said that Fri­day she was re­leased from the hos­pi­tal af­ter be­ing ad­mit­ted to the Er­ic Williams Med­ical Sci­ences Com­plex on De­cem­ber 18, af­ter suf­fer­ing a heart at­tack. Ram­nath said she was rest­ing lat­er that evening when the 93-year-old man struck her with a blade. Ram­nath said she used her hands to pre­vent be­ing struck fur­ther by the cut­lass as she plead­ed for the man to re­lease her.

“I turn so to open the door be­cause it was locked, when I try to open the door, I see meh fin­ger,” she cried.

“Me eh have no fin­ger again,” Ram­nath wept.

Ram­nath said she ran to the near­by po­lice sta­tion and was lat­er tak­en to the hos­pi­tal.

She lost all her be­long­ings in the fire at her house which was al­leged­ly set by the sus­pect.

Ram­nath said she worked hard with the Un­em­ploy­ment Re­lief Pro­gramme to build her house. She said she was giv­en a State grant in 2019 and com­plet­ed her home.

Since the in­ci­dent, Ram­nath now lives with her daugh­ter Zeena Kadil. She is forced to share a bed­room at Kadil’s house which has no elec­tric­i­ty. Ram­nath al­so has to sleep un­der a net to avoid mos­qui­toes at night.

Coun­cil­lor for Long­denville, Bren­da John, said she would reach out to the rel­e­vant min­istries to as­sist Ram­nath.

“No­body reached out to her, while oth­ers were en­joy­ing Christ­mas, she is there suf­fer­ing. Reach out to her and help her,” she urged.

When con­tact­ed, Min­is­ter of So­cial De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Ser­vices Don­na Cox said, “We will stay on it to as­sist as much as we can.”

ASP Dipc­hand of the Ch­agua­nas Po­lice said 93-year-old Harold Bap­tiste, ap­peared be­fore High Court Mas­ter Whit­ney Franklin on De­cem­ber 24 where he was charged with wound­ing with in­tent.

He is ex­pect­ed to reap­pear in court on Jan­u­ary 25, 2025.