Berbice: Hundreds of angry Sister’s Village, Berbice residents gathered on Saturday to express their disgust at the killing of 13-year- old Leonard Archibald of East Bank Berbice, who was brutally raped.
The teens badly decomposed body was discovered around on the banks of the Berbice River in Kortherbraadt Village, East Bank Berbice three villages away from where he was allegedly dumped overboard by two men who savagely sodomised him.
The discovery was made by a quartet from a search party that was out since Friday combing all corners of the Berbice River after one of the suspects confessed to the heinous crime.
One eyewitness said the teen’s body was found in a crouching position, badly decomposed and bound.
He explained that they notified the police and they placed the body in the boat and bought it to a mooring facility behind the Sister’s Police Station and there investigators took control of the body.
At the scene, the child’s mother Abigail Archibald stood in a state of shock with tears running down her cheeks, while relatives tried to offer words of comfort as undertakers
As the body was being moved, scores of villagers started shouting expletives, wishing that the suspects suffer a similar fate and rot in jail.
Many questioned the motive behind the act and whether the suspects were human.
Earlier in the day, a walk organised by the community and the teen’s family was held Saturday morning in honour of the teen, calling for justice.
It commenced at Rotterdam Village and concluded in front of the house of one of the suspects at Sister’s Village. Young Leonard was last seen riding his bicycle along the Brother’s Public Road in a pair of trousers. He was going to collect his three sisters who were at a birthday party at a nearby village.
According to information, the teen collected his sisters and was accompanying them home when he told them he was riding ahead and will meet up at home.
However, when the girls arrived home, the Overwinning Primary School teen was not there and a search conducted failed to locate him.
Following an intense investigation, several persons were questioned and two main suspects were arrested. On Friday, the duo confessed to detectives that they snatched the teen, sodomised him and later dumped his unconscious body in the Berbice River.
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