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Old 10-04-2007, 04:16 AM
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A Cry For Help- Jamaican justice system and one woman

Was sent this story from a friend of mine in Jamaica. He actually knows Charrah and asked me to pass it on. Despite the graphic and heart wrenching nature of the story, I ask that you read, pass it on and/or lend your support.


http://charrahwatson.blogspot.com/

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Why Charrah is Telling Her Story? why the internet?

Wednesday, October 3, 2007 NOW WHY AM I TELLING MY STORY? AND WHY AM I GOING OUT OF THE WAY TO REPEATEDLY SAY NETO MEEKS SON OF AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS AND PROFESSOR BRIAN MEEKS?..... WELL THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD JUSTICE SYSTEM THAT EXIST IN JAMAICA. A JUSTICE SYSTEM WHERE YOUR CLASS AND PLACE IN SOCIETY AND YOUR ADDRESS DETERMINES THE OUT COME OF A CONFLICT AND HOW IT IS RESOLVED.

True…….. this is the first time that I will have to deal with jamaica’s justice system first hand. However I have lived here all my life and I have seen and heard of cases were real and true justice wasn’t served only because one party had a LAST NAME THAT MEANT SOME THING IN SOCIETY AND THER WAS LIKE MYSELF A POOR MAN PICKNEY…….the scum and burden of society.

WHY DO I BELIEVE THAT MY CASE JUST MIGHT END UP BEING ONE OF THOSE RICH MAN POOR MAN CASES?
WELL I HAVE ALREADY SEEM IT BEING TO HAPPEN.

On Saturday morning I went to grants pen police station where I was greeted by AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS, A AUNT OF OF MY ATTACKER WHO IS A CORPAL OR SUPERINTENDENT OF THE POLICE FORCE AND A CLOSE FRIEND OF NETO MEEKS WHO IS KNOWN TO BE OF QUESTIONABLE BACK GROUND.


` I got to the station at about 9:15 am. The police officers were very professional, despite the cursing in the waiting area by AMINA BLACK WOULD MEEKS. I was taken to interview room 1 were my statement was taken. Some time after wards about 20 min later, an officer called me to a room. IN THE ROOM I SAW THE MAN WHO TRIED TO KILL ME A FEW HOURS AGO , TWO ATTORNEYS THERE ON THE BEHAVE OF AMINA BLACKWOOD MEKKS AND PROFESSOR BRIAN MEEKS. My sister Italee Watson, and a family friend who also was an counselor and two police officers were in the room.

ONE OF THE ATTORNEYS THERE FOR BRIAN AND AMINA STARTING ASKING ME WHY I WAS THERE AND WHY WAS I PRESSING CHARGES, AND WHAT I EXPECTED TO GET FROM ALL THIS COURT THING. I ASKED HIM WHAT HE MEANT CAUSE I REALLY DID NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MAN WAS SAYING.

THE MAN THEN PROCEEDED TO SHOUT AT ME LETTING ME KNOW HOW STUPID AND NIEVE I AM FOR WANTING TO TAKE THE MATTER TO COURT, SAYING I HAD NO CLUE ABOUT THE LEGAL SYSTEM AND BLAH..BLAH BLAH BLAH…… I STOPPED HIM AND TOLD HIM THAT HIS BEHAVIOUR WAS UN CALLED FOR AND TOTALLY UNNECESSARY. I THEN ASKED WHY WAS I CALLED INTO A ROOM WITH THE MAN WHO TRIED TO MURDER ME AND NOT ONE BUT TWO ATTORNEYS THAT WAS THERE ON HIS BEHALF. THE TWO LAWYER THEN BEGUN TO PLEA THEIR CASE, TRYING TO DETER ME FROM FILLING CHARGES AGAINST AMINA AND BRIAN SON AND TAKING HIM TO COURT..

I was quick to pick up what was happening. Being aware of two other cases with NETO MEEKS EXGIRL FRIENDS WHO HE BEAT AND HOSPITALIZED, JUST LIKE ME, ONE OF WHICH HE BEAT WHEN SHE WAS FOUR MONTHS PREGNANT WITH THEIR SECOND CHILD…..THE BEATING LEAD TO A MISSCHARAGE. THAT BEATING WAS DONE IN THE PRESENCE OF HIS FIRST CHILD NIALI.
They too went to the police but never filled any charges because AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKSAND HER LAWYERS THREATEN THE GIRLS.

SO I KNEW WHAT THEY WERE TRYING TO DO WITH ME. I again stopped the lawyers after being with them in the room for over an hour, telling them that they are trying to reason with a person who is beyond reasoning with…. They are trying to reason with with someone who whose life was almost taken by the man they were there representing…..

They initially tried bulling me into not filling charges, then they tried to scare me into not filing charges by telling me that my attacter will be filling counter charges too. They said they are only looking out for my best interest and that that it will soot no one if I take the matter to the courts and I should seriously consider mediation….whatever that is…..I laughed……. This was the first time I laughed….. I actually saw what I heard of happening before my “EYE”.

They ASSURED ME THAT CHARGES WILL ALSO BE FILED AGAINST ME AND I TOO WILL GO TO JAIL FOR WHAT NETO DID TO ME.


THEY EVENTUALLY REALISED THAT I WOULD NOT BE MOVED AND LEFT THE ROOM.

THEY CALLED OUT MY FRIEND THAT WAS THERE WITH ME AND WAS TALKING TO HER FOR ALMOST HALF HOUR ASKING HER TO TALK TO WHO EVER SHE NEEDS TO TALK TO, TO CONVINCE TO NOT TAKE THE MATTER TO COURT. HINTING AT ASKING FOR COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGES INCURRED….OF COURSE THE MEEKS GOT MONEY ROGHT……BUT HOW MUCH DO YOU THINK MY EYE IS WORTH? THE SCARS ON MY BODY AND OF COURSE THE MENTAL DAMAGE THAT WILL COME AND HAVE STARTED COMING?
HOW MUCH WILL THAT COST??


THERE IS A LOT MORE THE HAPPEN BETWEEN FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY NIGHT MY EYES ARE NOW HURTING AND MY ONE GOOD EYE IS VERY TIERD AND EVERYTHING IS A BLUR TO ME NOW…SO I WILL END IT HERE……

I PROCEEDED AND FILLED MY CHANGES AGAINST NETO MEEKS

THEY CHARGED NETO MEEKS WITH

UNLAWFUL WOUNDIND
MALLISCOUS DISTRUCTION OF PROPERTY
AND FOR THE GANJA HE HAD ON HIM WHEN THEY PICKED HIM UP ON FRIDAY.


I TOO WAS CHARGED….

WITH
UNLAWFUL WOUNDING…..for the bite which NETO MEEKS sustained when I tried to free my neck from NETO MEEKS ‘ EXPERT CHOCK HOLD.

I WILL APPEAR IN THE HALF-WAY TREE COURT ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 9TH AT 10:00 am

Please come out and lend your support because I will need it if i will any chance of a fair and just trial.

I AM ALSO IN NEED OF A GOOD LAWYER WHO IS NOT AFRAID TO TAKE ON ONE OF JAMAIC’S MOST PROMMINENT FAMILY.

I WILL NEED ALL THE HELP I CAN GET TO FIGHT THE MIGHTY MEEKS CLAN AND AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS the very popular and influential WOMAN in Jamaica

Please view the attached photographs of some of the injuries I incurred during the BATTLE FOR MY LIFE WITH NETO MEEKS SON OF AMINA BLACKWOOD MEEKS AND PROFESSOR BRIAN MEEKS, BLACK BELT KARATE EXPERT.


YOURS THANKFULLY
CHARAH……..



PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO AS MANY PL AS POSSIBLE
ALL MEDIA ATTENTION ARE WELCOMED……

THANKS AGAIN
CHARAH…

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Old 10-04-2007, 06:03 AM
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Re: A Cry For Help- Jamaican justice system and one woman

i'll offer up some prayers for her angelmine
and pass it on to my cousins in Ja

how ya been frien?
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Why can't you just get over it,
It turned my whole world around
and i kind of like it
I made by bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don't mind saying,
It's a sad sad story
That a mother will teach her daughter
that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over



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Old 10-04-2007, 10:06 AM
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Re: A Cry For Help- Jamaican justice system and one woman

Pondi.....This is sooo sad

I would love to help out in any way and my prayers do go out to her and her family. Is there some government offical of sorts that we can flood there email box with concerns & complaints??
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Re: A Cry For Help- Jamaican justice system and one woman

This what I was looking for. My friend who just came over tonight (she lived in Kingston working for a gender awareness program) for 2 years. Anyways, she's actually MET this family....Amina Blackwood Meeks actually freakin WORKS for Women's Media Watch.....a women's gender awareness organization. Talk about a double standard!!!

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Old 10-23-2007, 12:27 AM
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Re: A Cry For Help- Jamaican justice system and one woman

By the way, this is what ACTUALLY happened to her. (sorry for the odd characters throughout, I just copied and pasted)



I am Charah Tabetha Watson a 23 year old female, who is 5 feet 5 inches of a slim built. On the night of Friday September 28, 2007, on arriving home on Shortwood Road I was brutally attacked by my sister’s boy friend who also is the father of my nephew.

I got home at approximately 7:30 pm I inserted my keys into the door but soon realized that the door was bolted from the inside. I knocked on the door and my eight 8 year old niece Taiye came to the window and then said “oh, it’s Auntie Charah” she then unbolted the door and I entered the house. On entering the house I saw my attacker, Neto Meeks son of a prominent media personality Amina Blackwood Meeks and Professor Brian Meeks.

Neto Meeks had verbally threatened to kill me on Wednesday September 26, 2007 in the presence of my mother and my niece.

Upon entering the house Neto Meeks (son of Amina Blackwood Meeks and Professor Brian Meeks) eased up out the chair which he was sitting in. I proceeded to walk pass him to enter my room, however I didn’t make it that far. As soon as I was about a foot/step infront of Neto Meeks I felt a someone pounce on me. Neto Meeks jumped me from behind engulfing the entire left side of my body (at this point my school bag was still on my shoulder). I immediately reached into the side of my bag for a knife which I was advised by my sister Italee Watson to carry because she had reason to believe that I might be in danger due to threats from Neto Meeks.

Neto Meeks then put his arm around my neck and accosted my right hand which had my only source of defense with his right hand (he was still behind me). He then proceeded to push me into a room at the back of the living room. Neto is a BLACK BELT KARATE EXPERT who trains religiously every morning and evening and practices at least 3 different forms of Karate and is either a 3RD OR 4TH DEGREE BLACK BELT HOLDER. He began pressing his knee in my back and my lower body while he was chocking me with his arm. My school back is still over my shoulder, and my right hand is still in the custody of Neto Meeks. I started biting Neto Meeks on his left arm while trying to break free from his grip around my neck all this time my two nieces were screaming and crying). I managed to get my head free from his strong manly hold. However he still had my right hand. I started pushing him against the wall trying to escape. I managed to push Neto Meeks up against the computer desk the 6 +feet muscular man then grabbed at my left ear with his mouth. He managed to grip it and proceeded to dig into the flesh of my ear. I somehow managed to free my ear from his mouth but not without sustaining anawful bite encompassing the entire bottom half of my left ear.

I still had my right hand which held my only defense against this LETHAL BLACK BELT KARATE EXPERT. Neto Meeks then started bitting me all over my body leaving behind life long scars on my right arm and my right shoulder.

I again started pushing him with all my strength, with my school bag still over my left shoulder, this was all I could do to fend off my attacker. We fell on the floor with Neto Meeks on top of me, he then made several attempts to stab me with the knife that was in my right hand which he was using all his MANLY STRENGH TO CONTROL. I then started biting him on his right arm trying to release my right hand from his grip. Neto Meeks again grabbed at my left ear with his powerful jays. Again by the grace of God I manage to escape another attempt to bite off my ear.

Two neighbours on the complex ran inside the house after hearing the children’s cries for help. They tried to take Neto Meeks off me but failed. They pleaded with him to release me but he refused. He said “NO TEK THE KNIFE FROM AR FIRST” I refused to give them the knife while I was still in the grip of this viscous man. One of the ladies managed to get him to release his grip from my right hand and the other pulled him away from me. I Then gave the neighbor the knife and RAN TO MY ROOM which is adjacent to the room were Neto Meeks (was trying to eat me alive and was beating the life out of me.

I locked my self in my room . I grab a cell phone from my pocket and started dialing the police. 911. the call didn’t go through, I then took home the home phone and tried calling the police again.911.911.911.911 no response? 911.911.911.911.911. i tried with my cell phone again. 911 .911 911 911 911……..the house was now quite, I couldn’t hear my nieces crying anymore. I thought the neighbours had removed Neto Meeks from the house. In the mid’s of trying to call the police I saw Neto Meeks approaching my door WITH A LONG BLACK MACHETE in his hand (which is a French door with transparent glass and wood in between the glass). Neto Meeks) started saying, “ A POLICE YOU A CALL GYAL, A MI AN YOU ONE IN YAA NOW!.......A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL, A DEAD YOU DEAD!!!!! Neto Meeks THEN STARTED KICKING OUT THE GLASS OFF MY ROOM DOOR STILL CHANTING “ A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL….A DEAD YOU DEAD!!”

911 911 911 911 9111 911 9111911 911 911 911 911…STILL NOTHING!!! SH*T

AFTER KICKING OUT THE LAST PIECE OF GLASS WHICH STOOD BETWEEN HIM AND MY NOW TREMBLING, BATTERED, BRUISED WEAK BODY… Neto Meeks (stepped through the door still chanting) “A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL!!!”


Neto Meeks RAISED THE MACHETE, with no other options available I JUMPED AND GRABBED THE BLADE OF THE MACHETE WITH BOTH MY HANDS WHICH NOW HAVE SLICES ALL OVER MY HAND. I pushed and I pushed trying to counteract his attempts to chop me. Neto Meeks then started stabbing at me with the machete when he realized he wasn’t able to swing the machete. He managed to STABBED ME ON MY FORE HEAD ABOVE MY LEFT EYE (I receive three 3 stitches for the wound). BLOOD STARTED SPRAYING EVERY WHERE. MY FACE WAS COVERED IN MY BLOOD. I COULD NO LONGER SEE THE HITS COMING. Realiazing what was at stake and WHAT WAS ABOUT TO BE MY DEATH I summed up what little energy I had for WHAT I BELIEVED WOULD HAVE BEEN MY LAST ACT ON EARTH, I FOUGHT. I PUSHED, I PULLED I TWIST AND I TURNED.

Neto Meeks THREW ME TO THE FLOOR …THEN CAME HIS ELBOW DELIVERING BLOWS TO MY FACE AND HEAD OVER AND OVER AND OVER WHILE CHANTING “ A DEAD YOU DEAD GYAL”. Neto Meeks WAS KNOCKING THE LIFE OUT OF ME. I was now still being too tired from what was now about 45 min of fighting.

I THEN FELT Neto Meeks TEETH AT MY LEFT EYE….I pulled away, he came again I pulled away, but with his body on top of mine I did not have much space to pull away to…..HE DUG IN FOR MY EYE AGAIN AND THIS TIME HE WAS SUCCESSFUL AT GETTING IT.
Neto Meeks Engulfed my entire left eye in his mouth. Neto Meeks a black belt karate experts who watches kong foo movies morning, evening and night…began sinking his teeth into my eye until he had a tight grip……Neto Meeks Amina Blackwood Meeks son, then began pulling my eye…. I could feel my eye being lifted from its socket and could feel the blood now running from my eye…..
I then heard a pop in my eye….at this point I started screaming……..


Since I could no longer fight for my life, I started screaming, as loud as I could I screamed and screamed. Neto Meeks then released my eye from his mouth which was covered in my blood. I FELT THE BLOOD OOZING FROM MY EYE WHICH NO LONGER FELF LIKE IT WAS APART OF MY FACE. Neto Meeks THEN STARTED TO LAUGH………..ANDSAID “YES SCREAM B*TCH SCREAM”…… A SO DI OLE A UHNUU ALWAYS START SQUELL, SQUELL B*TCH SQUELL!!!. Realizing this was what he wanted I STOPPED SCREAMING.

I then said to him “ ohh so a me you come back yah faaaa” he “yes SO MI CAN KILL YOU NOW AND GO BOUT MI BUSINESS”…. “ SO IF MI KILL YOU NOW A NO NUTTING RIGHT” I then replied “ YOU CAN TRY PUNK”.


Try he did, but I decided that there was no way I was gonna let this woman beater weakling take my life. AND SO I FOUGHT, I FOUGHT AND I FOUGHT.

LUCKLY the same two neighbours who had came to my rescue before had returned. I begged then to take the man off me. They tried but he wouldn’t let me go. I begged them to call the police, the security guard, another man on the complex…... anybody to take this man from off me an to remove the machete from his hand. It took sometime but they eventually got him to release the handle off the machete. After assuring that they were the ones now holding the machete I released my now cut ridden hands from the blade of the machete. This time round they removed him from house. I ran to the door and bolted it hoping that it would put up a better between me and would be killer than my bed room door did.

My neighbour returned and then rushed me to the UWI hospital where I was examined and treated. I reached a total of FOUR STITCHES INSIDE MY EYE AT WO DIFFERENT LOCSATIONS INSIDE THE EYE. THREE STIRCHES FOUR THE CHOP ON MY FOREHEAD. There wasn’t much that they could do for my other body injuries. My entire face is now swollen. My head aces all over, my neck is stiff and is in immense pain.
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Re: A Cry For Help- Jamaican justice system and one woman

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This what I was looking for. My friend who just came over tonight (she lived in Kingston working for a gender awareness program) for 2 years. Anyways, she's actually MET this family....Amina Blackwood Meeks actually freakin WORKS for Women's Media Watch.....a women's gender awareness organization. Talk about a double standard!!!

WTF????

Isn't this a sad story... I truly hope peeps can make a difference by speaking out about it.
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I think its freakin mental!!!! Also my friend told me much more of the stories from JA that we don't normally hear about. Sick, badmind.
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I think its freakin mental!!!! Also my friend told me much more of the stories from JA that we don't normally hear about. Sick, badmind.

I could tell you a few stories that relate in a very parellel way here in the states as well.
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Yea I'm positive there are crap like that everywhere. Heck look at all the serial killers and mass murderers the USA breeds. I read the "True Crime" series, I know the gory details.
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