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Mini-doc transcript - Glory's story

• Three months later
• One year later

[News clippings displayed]

Cathy [v/o]: Glory had been to a court hearing the previous day in relation to the rape of her twin daughters and was furious at the outcome. The perpetrator who lived four doors down the street from her had been released on bail.

Glory: I was so depressed I couldn’t even have dinner. I had this terrible headache and I think maybe it must have been nerves, or whatever, because I couldn’t just believe that they remanding it to next year in February. That’s four months. It’s too much.

Cathy [off screen]: And this guy’s still walking around free?

Glory: He was in a new suit, new shoes, new shirt and he was so boastful. And like, I don’t know. He’s still around. I saw him yesterday. The twins This is dangerous, you know. It’s like a virus. It's like something – we should STOP THIS NOW.

Three months later

[Scene shows Glory's daughter Angel putting on make-up.]

Glory: I can see a light. There is a light there at the end of the tunnel. It's shining brightly you know.

[Scene shows Glory in uniform kissing twins goodbye.]

Glory: They all involved. They all concerned. They telling me that over the telephone, when they come here.

One year later

Glory: It's almost two years now since this guy raped and sodomised my kids. And justice? Nunca, nothing at all. I’ve been everywhere – all those departments and they’re not helping. They do promise. They promise me that they’ll do something about it. They also come here and interview me but afterwards I think when they just turn their backs, they take the papers and throw them into the bins. Nothing is happening. But now luckily, some time ago, I was depressed after this Senior Prosecutor told me that my case will never go to court this year because my kids don’t want to get used to a stranger thing – I told them there is no way my kids are going to be questioned by a stranger who will just immediately get into the whole questioning thing and ask them who raped them and things like that. So I went back to the Dept of Safety and Security and they referred me to the National Director of Prosecutions and there this one lady promised me an advocate, promised me – I can say promised again. This one I don’t know - I’ve got that hope I think she gonna do something.

Glory cont: I won’t give up. I promise you I won’t give up. Not for my kids.Remember I’m the only one. I’m like a mother and father to them. Mother, father, sister –everything to them. I don’t have parents who can support me. I don’t have a husband who can support me. My sisters also have their problems. So I’ve go to be strong for them.

[Scene shows Glory's daughters Angel and Sunshine drawing]

Glory [off screen]: My kids can’t go to school. They still here at home. We still frustrated. They still frustrated. They asking me every day when they going to school. I can’t take them because I’m too scared of this guy.

Glory cont: We encourage them to watch TV – Takelane, Sesame, and you know there’s kids education things. Kids outside playing and they also watch their cassettes, so they sort of teach themselves English.

[Scene shows Angel playing.]

Angel: Look at that. That things go up...

Glory: They in jail here. We all in jail. We can’t go anywhere. The woman, the nanny who looks after them can’t go anywhere with them. I’m the only one who’s allowed to go with them anywhere. Because I’m scared of this guy. He can see us coming and going.

Cathy [off screen]: Do you still feel that he’s a threat to you?

Glory: He is. Very much so. He still is. Because of his status. You know he’s a drug lord, a heist king. He has killed many people before.

Cathy [off screen]: Has he made any attempts on you?

Glory: He did. About I think now, it's about two months ago. I was coming from town. I had my groceries - two big plastic bags of vegetables and groceries - and he tried to run me over with his car. I just heard this car coming, speeding and I jumped you know, next to me. I jumped and when I looked back, it was him.

Glory cont.: My case is not a case in isolation. Many cases are like that. That is why the conviction rate is less than four percent in all those cases. And that is why the rapes are still going on and they are not gonna stop, until the government does something. They should stop promising people and they should stop going on shouting that they will do something because they want our votes. They shouldn’t do that to us.

[Scene shows Angel and Sunshine running to camera with flowers.]

Angel: Flower, look at that.

Glory: I’m keeping on, and I’ve got this hope that there is no way my case will just end nowhere. There is no way. I’m gonna fight til the end.