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Aug 3, 2010

Jealousy is the motive for stabbing of pregnant woman

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On Monday night we reported that a pregnant woman was viciously attacked as she and her family slept at their Neal Pen Road home.  The victim is twenty-eight year old Valerie Sheran, who was seven months pregnant with her third child. She is still hospitalized recovering from injuries allegedly inflicted by her ex-boyfriend, twenty-one year old Henry Patnett who eased into the house after two o’clock on Monday morning. According to Valerie’s mother, Alexandrina, Patnett stabbed her daughter to the stomach, killing his unborn child. Patnett is believed to have gone into a jealous rage over Valerie’s new boyfriend, seventy year old Ernesto Ireland.  Alejandrina chose not to appear on camera today when she told News Five how the incident unfolded.

Marion Ali

“So everybody mi di sleep?”

Voice of: Alexandrina Sheran, Mother of Stabbing Victim

“Yes, my son mi just come home but he mi gone dah convention and he drunk. Nobody noh hear when dehn come een. Di lee bwai mi gone dah bathroom…”

Marion Ali

“So how he got in?”

Voice of: Alexandrina Sheran

“Di lee bwai mi gone dah bathroom and he hear di person knock at di door and he gone open di door wid wah happen cause when di door bolt deh so ih hard fi open. But di lee bwai open di door thinking dat dah somebody fi yah and ih knock open di door wid di hammer and he come inna di house and start to juck up dehn. He seh di house mi eena dark and ih come inna di house and start to stab up.”

Marion Ali

“And your daughter was with her new boyfriend.”

Voice of: Alexandrina Sheran

“Yes.”

Marion Ali

“But isn’t there a restraining order against this…”

Voice of: Alexandrina Sheran

“Yes, we got wah restraining order. Dehn fi mi ker ah dah court dis month yah cause ih mi stab ah yah so already. Dis dah di second time ih stab ah.”

Marion Ali

“Di attacker is the father of the child right?”

Voice of: Alexandrina Sheran

“Yes.”

Marion Ali

“Who all got stabbed and how yoh daughter weh pah ih get stabbed?”

Voice of: Alexandrina Sheran

“Inna ih belly ah tell yoh. And [Ernesto] get stabbed inna ih finga cause ih seh ih can’t open ih hand. Two finga get cut sake ah weh ih mi di try push off di knife and so ih cut ah pan ih hand.”

When Valerie was rushed to the hospital, an emergency cesarean surgery was conducted but her baby could not be saved. Patnett has also not been brought before the courts.


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12 Responses for “Jealousy is the motive for stabbing of pregnant woman”

  1. Valerie Mckoy says:

    This yah crazy lee boy need fi get hang!

  2. BZNinCALI says:

    Has everyone gone crazy or are we so morally bankrupt that right, wrong & common sense no longer exists. A 28 year old woman is/was having sex with & procreated with a violent 21 year old man who has already stabbed her once. At 7 months pregnant, she is sleeping with her new 70 year old lover in her mother’s house, while her brother is in a drunken sleep & wah lee bwai opens the door @2AM. What are these people smoking?

    No one in their right mind opens their door without knowing who is on the other side & having a child manning the door is BS. How much did that 28 year old have in common with a 21 year old outside of their genitals? And what 28 year old of sound mind picks up a man old enough to be her grandfather if all he brought into the relationship was descending testicles, remember he was sleeping at her mother’s house.

    Patnett belongs in jail because there is no need for violence & this fool will not stop until he kills someone’s daughter or one of them kills him. Let’s face reality folks, what kind of environment was this dead child coming into? And a 7 month old fetus is viable.

  3. Bold says:

    BZNinCALI, give the girl a break. A lot of our youngmen don’t work. More than likely her ex didnt work so she couldn’t see any future in it.

    Things haaad out ya. The old man mi di take care ah business.

  4. Bold says:

    Its a really sad story tho. How could he kill his own unborn child? I say hang him too.

  5. NIkki says:

    Some ppl just no take rejection well……..

  6. luo says:

    good one bzeincali… a man should be man lets stop teaching our male children to behave violent and let them be responsible for thier action as for the woman mein you are a woman stop bringing man into your mommys hose you mother already grow, feed and took care . of you .time to start being an adult.. you have 2 kids for christsake.. t why pick up a 70 year old man if he is not sheltering you…he 21 year old shoudl be punish to the full extend of the law…

  7. Charlotte a.k.a 'Your Ladyship" says:

    BZNinCALI, very graphic description of grandpa’s bits and pieces, but funny! I like your posting.

    I hope this young lady makes a very speedy recovery from this ordeal.

  8. So Disappointed says:

    BZNinCALI you are too funny……..but right on the money. Whatever happened to morals in this country, what mother provide a house and bed for Tom Dick and Harry to sleep with your daughter. I will never understand that. I hope the 21year old gets what he deserves he is obviously very very sick and needs to be taken out of society. Miss things needs some counseling also.

  9. Disappointed says:

    That is very said, it is true…. what is going on with the mother incouraging the daughter to bring tom, dick and harry into her home? As far as the 70 year old he is obviously taking care of business, but still what rights does he have there? I just hope that the young man get exactly what he deserved. He did the crime so now he have to spend your time. I wish the young lady a speedy recovery.

  10. macal rivera says:

    two a dem need counselling, can’t believe a woman would have sex with another man who is not the child”s father!!!! See wat dem people talk about HIV and the aids thing, they still no learn, dem hard head, my oh my, what sahme on this old man dat woman could be his great granddaughter!!

    We arwe surley living in the last days, poor baby!!

  11. well said BZNinCALI! says:

    BZNinCALI, You said a mouthful.

  12. redface says:

    all u …king people r talking about hanging a 21 year old patnett.y dont u talk about hanging people that do worst crime like murdering children and raping children.to me valerie sheran should not be sleeping with someone who could be her grandfather.the 70years old man … kill the baby.shame on that mother of valerie sheran.that man could be the mother man or father.set patnett free she should not had lead him on and take his money.

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