Warning to lonely women

THE EDITOR: To the single or lonely women in Trinidad and Tobago, please be extremely cautious when responding to personal ads in the newspapers and other forms of media. I’d like to refer to an incident which took place recently. A friend of mine decided to respond to one such ad in the Singles section of a daily newspaper’s classified ads. The ad read, “White Gentleman seeks lady. 759-6911”. She called the number and got a voice message recorded in four different languages. Impressed by this, she left her contact number. Later that day, she received a call from the “White Gentleman”. He called himself “Sean” and said that he was interested in having a steady relationship what would one day lead to marriage. They agreed to meet the next day. As it turned out “Sean” was not white but a fair-skinned Indian/Syrian from Canada. He explained that his real name is not Sean. He then offered to buy her a glass of orange juice while they chatted (unfortunately she agreed to this). Three hours later my friend found herself in a strange house in San Fernando with a massive headache and the stranger having intercourse with her. (The next day she had a blood test which showed that she had been drugged).

When my friend told me what had happened I was disgusted and angry, to say the least. We went to the police to file a report (blood test results in hand) but we were told that there was nothing that could be done since we did not have enough evidence. From there we decided to do some investigating of our own. I called the school, which is downstairs the apartment where he lived, only to find out that he was evicted for stealing food and toilet paper and inviting girls to his home for himself. Apparently he was still using the apartment as his “love nest”. We also called the institute where he said that he taught French but they said that he was fired at least two months before. Strangely enough, I have seen this guy’s cell phone number on ads for alternative lifestyles and erotic massages. I have spoken to two girls who are victims of this man’s sick perverted crimes. Both claim that he is on Prozac and is highly depressed. Collectively we have tried to get the police involved only to be told that, “He is a big man and he could handle his stories”. What does this mean? Is there no protection for women from men like “Sean”? “Sean” is still out there, very active and luring women to their demise with his impressive use of languages and a false impression that he is Caucasian. He is broke and out of a job, highly depressed and possibly sick (physically). Women, protect yourselves. Please! Beware of not only this man, but of others who place personal ads to lure women (and men) with a deadly motive in mind.

AMANDA LOUIS
Port-of-Spain