Posted on 05/31/2019 7:14:23 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
A Delaware woman who says she was severely beaten at a resort is telling her story in public for the first time. Tammy Lawrence-Daley says in January, she was attacked by a stranger inside the resort where she was staying in the Dominican Republic.
"It's very difficult, very difficult reliving," Lawrence-Daley said. "I could hear footfalls behind me. And before I could turn around, he plowed into the back of me."
Tammy Lawrence-Daley was on vacation with her husband at the Majestic Elegance Resort in the Dominican Republic when she says she went downstairs alone one night in search of a snack. Then the man attacked her.
The man, Lawrence-Daley says, was wearing a resort uniform. She tried to fight him off, but after he strangled her she lost consciousness.
"When I came to, it was to him beating me," Lawrence-Daley said. "About the head. Kicking me and beating me."
It was hours before people at the resort found her in an underground crawl space. She was brought to the hospital with severe facial injuries. After months of physical and emotional recovery she says she is finally sharing her story as a warning to others.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Don’t go to Jamaica then.
best wishes
what’s your point? I already said i would never go to Jamaica.
Yep.
:) good ol’ 10cc.
BVI is so beautiful and the sailing is wonderful. Years ago it was very safe. There were no drugs, although you could get some Cuban cigars.
It’s a bit different now, especially after the hurricane. I just got back from there two months ago. The Islands had heavy damage from the storm, many places were destroyed. Peter Island won’t be open for another year! There are still some abandoned boats that were pushed inland and haven’t been removed yet. There are still half destroyed abandoned houses. Unfortunately, drugs seemed to be everywhere, mainly grass. And now there are the usual tourist scams that were not there in the past. It’s sad.
I had this almost happen to me when traveling for business in the U.S. in the 1980s. Myself and the potential rapist were both white professionals. Fortunately, I had put the chain on my door, and when he opened it with a key, he couldn't get in unless he would have drawn attention to himself by breaking into the door. There were people outside who would have seen it, so he just made a bunch of excuses and left. It was a balcony room overlooking the pool, which is how he had seen me in the first place, entering alone with my overnight bag, and targeted me. He went to the desk, said he was locked out and was handed a skeleton key just because he looked respectable, which he was not.
Of course I called and had security come and escort me to a safer room, and management was apologetic.
Not that they really cared all that much about individual women traveling alone for business back then; no matter how we dressed, spoke or conducted ourselves, we were suspected of being hookers (that was also true within our workspaces, as #MeToo has finally made clear). But change has come about slowly. Most decent hotels and motels don't have metal keys anymore as a result of this kind of thing.
So it's not just third world cesspools; today we must reckon with what has happened to our country from human trafficking and drugs.
The woman in the story at the link took for granted that she, an upscale American, could venture out at night without her husband, and made herself a victim. Probably a high and mighty liberal who took her utopian presumptions with her down to the lobby. My hope is that she emerged a conservative—and a gun owner.
And I doubt ever will.....unfortunatly.
Probably the resort owner's nephew. Or the cop's cousin.
Oh! Man - I looked at your FR profile and you’re asking me a question? I’m not nearly as equipped as you are at the use of words. Great profile...
I also cringe when the use of “I” and “me” is used improperly and I learned probably from school days which were many moons ago that if a sentence doesn’t work with “I”, don’t use it. I have no idea what the rule is...but I do know it’s wrong when I hear it and I hear it every day on news programs.
“The movie was upsetting to my sister and I”. Will it work if you say, “The movie was upsetting to I?” No? Then you want to say, “The movie was upsetting to my sister and me.”
I think a good ear for such things is as important as knowing the rules of the game....so I go by sound. If it doesn’t sound right, change it!! It’s worked for my 80+ years and I’m not about to change it...
This will work to muddy the waters:
https://www.thoughtco.com/confusing-i-and-me-1857097
~~~~~All you have to do is leave out the second object. Look over these examples, and you’ll see it’s really simple.
You might be tempted to say:
WRONG: “Would you explain that to John and I?”
But then, when you omit the other object, you’ll have:
WRONG: “Would you explain that to I?”
Now that just sounds silly. Try this:
RIGHT: “Would you explain that to John and me?”
RIGHT: “Would you explain that to me?”~~~~~~
You can cite her stupidity, arrogance or naivete without automatically calling her a whore, you know. Women do get beaten and raped just because there are such men in the world. It's uncouth to blame the victim unless she actually did something to provoke your automatic disbelief.
You are as naive as she was. Maybe more.
Thank you, AW, for your spot on statement to aJolla.
Yes, that’s the determinant I usually use. Maybe it’s harder to do that speaking on the fly than in writing, as the problem doesn’t seem to pop up so much there. I don’t know how I’d do in public speaking regarding I/me, but if it were poorly, I’d be in good company. LOL
And thanks for the kind words.
Those thoughts were projected straight out of your own corrupt imagination. Way to blame the victim. Hope you don't have any daughters.
Likewise. Never had any negative incidents. Likewise Jamaica. I've been there once and really enjoyed it.
You sound like a nice person, which makes you vulnerable to these kinds of stories, because people can play on your good-heartedness. The only time I was stiffed for thousands of dollars in business was by a married couple of Christians who were leading a youth delegation to the White House and needed printed literature prepared by my business to take with them.
You may be 100% right about the individuals you mentioned. But it's clearly a risk to let your guard down outside your immediate circle.
DailyMail often runs stories of middle-class British expats who buy dream cottages near the beach in the British West Indies or Virgin Islands, only to be hacked to death with a machete by the pool boy or gardener who also works the sugar cane. Especially if there is as much poverty and deprivation as you say, there is also going to be great envy, where even a middle-class jobsworth's retirement income is far in excess of what the islanders could ever aspire to.
My imagination is no more corrupt than the way I have seen people behave firsthand. In this particular case the missing elements rightly draw suspicion of motive.
I certainly did not believe she was a whore. To be clear YOU are the one calling her a whore. Do you believe we have the entire story about her going out for a snack?
“Thank you, AW, for your spot on statement”
To be clear AW called her a whore and you agreed with her, not me, I do not believe we have the story.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.