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Friday, July 25, 2025

Wife burns husband with hot iron

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Re­ports of men be­ing phys­i­cal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly bat­tered by their wives have been en­gag­ing the at­ten­tion of the Vic­tims and Wit­ness Sup­port Unit as more men have been find­ing the courage to seek help, head of the unit Mar­garet Samp­son-Browne says.She says in some cas­es there are men who can­not touch their salaries be­cause that would spark ire from their wives."There are men who can­not talk to their friends when their wives are around and are be­ing phys­i­cal­ly abused but they are not com­ing out enough as they should. Some have done it and have come to us and we have dealt with it," Samp­son-Browne said.She made the claim at the launch of a pro­gramme, ti­tled In­te­grat­ing Gen­der-based Vi­o­lence Ser­vices with Sex­u­al and Re­pro­duc­tive Health Ser­vices for Young Peo­ple, at the Hy­att Re­gency, Port-of-Spain, on Wednes­day.

Samp­son-Browne said there was one case in San Fer­nan­do where a wife bad­ly burned her hus­band on the chest with a hot iron."His wife plugged in the heater and stamped him on the chest. He came in the sta­tion with a hole on the chest and my team walked him through the process of what to do."He al­so got a pro­tec­tion or­der but when we served her she thought it was a joke and she was laugh­ing...she was like, 'how dare you'," Samp­son-Browne added.She said last year ten men came to the unit seek­ing help af­ter re­port­ing they were be­ing abused by their wives.

On the is­sue of bug­gery she said a moth­er from "cen­tral/south" made a re­port that both her fa­ther and broth­ers were sex­u­al­ly abus­ing her son."She re­port­ed that the son, his fa­ther and grand­fa­ther were the same. The child is go­ing to col­lege and he is be­hav­ing in a par­tic­u­lar way," Samp­son-Browne added.Whether there were suf­fi­cient safe hous­es she said that re­mained a chal­lenge as the num­bers were in­suf­fi­cient.Chair­man of Ad­vo­cates for Safe Par­ent­hood: Im­prov­ing Re­pro­duc­tive Eq­ui­ty (AS­PIRE), Lynette See­baran-Suite, who at­tend­ed the func­tion said it was im­por­tant that women were giv­en the tools to feel em­pow­ered.


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