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Run away while you can
Murdered woman's mom warns abuse victims:
-Joel Julien

Tuesday, August 25th 2009

DIANNE Baptiste died when her throat was slit during an attack by her estranged lover on Saturday, autopsy results revealed yesterday.

Baptiste, 30, was killed on Saturday outside her sister’s Arima home by her once live-in lover, Michael Isaac.

The visit by Isaac ended with Baptiste, a mother of three, suffering a slit throat and several stab wounds about her body. Isaac ended his life by ingesting a weedicide, the autopsy said.

The former lovers both had their autopsies performed at the Forensic Science Centre in St James yesterday.

At the Centre, Baptiste’s mother, Angela Nanan, called on all women in abusive relationships to run away while they still can.

’They could have never make it. But he could never leave she alone. He threatened her a lot. And then she tell him it over he decided to take her life,’ Nanan said.

’So people have to get out of it before it reach to a point where they cannot get out of it alive.’

Nanan said that Baptiste’s three children, aged between 14 and 11, were still trying to come to terms with their mother’s death.


 Comments: Run away while you can
Violence on Woman Posted: 2009-08-25 00:34:00 AM
Mother Angela Nanan, we cannot even begin to feel your pain. This should never have happened. We have to teach our children that they are responsible for themselves and should take pride in who they are as human beings. To the women, I say - it is safer for you to remain single, or leave abusive relationships, than to stay and hope that things would get better, it never does. You do not need a man on your arms to make you feel whole. When you have children, especially, you should not remain in abusive relationships. The first time a man put his hands on you, make certain it is the last. Never give him the opportunity to do so a second time. Once that happens there is no turning back. You will never be safe. And don't ever try to justify his violence as saying 'I made him do it'. You did not. It was his decision, and his alone. Take your children and run, even if you have to do so with only the clothes on your backs. The hell you may have to experience away from an abusive partner would be small compared to staying where you are beaten and battered and finally killed. We must have more Battered Women's Shelter and Counsellors in T&T to care of these 'lost' women. Mother Nanan advised that women should run while they can, but her daughter did run away from her husband, but he stalked her, and finally destroyed her. Now the family and especially the children will have to pay this heavy price of knowing what their father did. I extend my sypathy to the family. 'Never Again' shold be our cries in this country.
Rescue them! Posted: 2009-08-25 03:47:00 AM
What is the country doing to assist and rescue battered women. Most of these women don't have a safe place to go. There is no rescue plan in place for these women, so where would they run and go. The current government that have been in power for so long have over looked the realities of sweet TnT. We have some of the most bueatiful women, and it's a pitty they have to go through these ordeals.
Domestic Violence Posted: 2009-08-25 04:40:00 AM
You don't run away while you can! that is a wrong message sent to Women. The first time the man in your life abuses you through words or hands, YOU LEAVE THE MAN! do not fall for any excuses; you should look for early signs and do not ignore them as 'trivial'; this is what leads to BIG issues. You have to 'cut it out' at the root not 'nip it' in the tip. Personally I feel ladies should start 'loving' themselves for who they are and set some strict standards in their definition of a 'MAN' rather than falling for a stereotype male in the society.
ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIPS Posted: 2009-08-25 07:05:00 AM
This is so sad. Five years ago,I was once married to a man from Trinidad and left Canada to come to live in T&T to be with him since he was my husband. Soon after the abuse began. He did not want to go for counseling and he would always say he would change. He never did change and after slapping me around one more time...one more time was too much because it could have escalated to even more violence. Because I am a canadian, one day when he left for work, I packed my bags, went to my brother's place in Diego Martin.I then booked a ONE-WAY TICKET to Canada and has never looked back. Women of T&T when your partner or husband abuse you once he will abuse you again and again and again. If you can RUN FOR YOUR LIFE please do. I know every abused woman will not be in my positon like me to buy a ticket and fly away to another country. But if you don't run you could die. However, it is time the women of T&T mobilize the same way they can mobilize for carnival and get out into the streets in full force with placards and get the Govt to build more homes for abused women and put programs in place in the schools from kindergarten to train the next generation of men that abusing their partners and spouses even to the point of murder will destroy the family structure on which the very nation is built.Stiffer laws must be put in place to deal with domestic violence offenders in T&T. Women of T&T unless you unite and let your voice be heard about the seriousness of domestic violence taking place against your sister, aunt, neice, mother...all women in the land, the vicious cycle of violence toward you will continue at the hands of the men you say you love and trust. And Mr Manning...SHAME on you for doing nothing to protect the nurturers of T&T from the hands of these abusive predators. But if you will do nothing about Crime IN THE LAND ...WHY WILL YOU DO ANYTHING ABOUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE? Trinidadians living abroad are ashamed of you and your government because you are not for the people who voted you into power. SHAME ON YOU!
LEAVE BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE Posted: 2009-08-25 12:58:00 AM
So true girl, I did 20 years ago when I packed up and came to Canada, not even knowing where I was going. Left my kids for my mom to care for and now 20 years later we are all living in Canada. If I could do it anyone can.
Leave Be4 It's 2 Late Posted: 2009-08-25 3:34:00 PM
It's not everyone who can do this.Due to fear my mother stayed with our father until she died. As a matter of fact,she was abused physically and mentally as far back as i can remember I've so much memories to this day of all i saw and heard.It still seems to me, as if it was yesterday. I'm in my 60's now and i still relive my mother pain. She is now in a happier place while he has married a few times since. Concerned Child

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