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Original Post Date: 2004-05-28 Time: 14:46:36 Posted By: Jan
[This is very sick yet stories like this hardly make national news. The black criminal called her a “white bitch”… Note how these blacks still sexually molested her AFTER SHOOTING HER… HOW SICK!! She’s lucky to be alive… though she’s paralysed for life… As for Mbeki’s supposed worries about the victims… If he really gave a damn we’d have the gallows at work hanging black bastards like this. Jan]
Tracey Swinson is thankful the robber who shot her was left-handed.
If he had been right-handed, he would probably have shot her in the heart, not the shoulder. She would surely have died.
As it is, the bullet left the 35-year-old mother-of-three paralysed. She will have to spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair.
Tracey is one of the many survivors of violent crime who could benefit from a “victims’ charter” that President Thabo Mbeki pledged, in his state of the nation address last week, would be finalised within two months.
‘There was not much chance for me to feel sorry for myself’
Mbeki also vowed that the government would start with the implementation of a victims support services programme to attend urgently to the needs of crime victims.
The number of South Africans personally counting the cost of crime remains unknown because police chiefs have opted not to release crime statistics and won’t even identify the country’s crime hotspots.
Tracey doesn’t consider herself to be a victim – she is a survivor.
Three months ago, she and her family were terrorised by four armed men at their home in Bedfordview, east of Johannesburg.
She was in bed, at about 10pm, when she heard voices in the backyard and her husband yelling.
‘Calling Tracey a “white bitch”, he shot her at point-blank range’
Pulling on her dressing gown, she headed for the bedroom door when it was opened by a man holding a gun.
He told her to control the German shepherd that was with her in the room. He marched her, at gunpoint, from the room, closing the door on the dog.
Calling Tracey a “white bitch”, he shot her at point-blank range. The impact threw her off her feet and she landed on the passage floor, unable to move. She could feel nothing.
In silent terror, Tracey watched the man enter her nine-year-old daughter Nicole’s bedroom and look around. She prayed quietly as he looked in on her sleeping sons, Kyle, 12, and Greigan, six.
He then strolled towards the kitchen, where she could hear her husband talking to other robbers, telling them to take what they wanted and leave quickly as people were likely to respond to the gunshot.
One of the men returned to Tracey, pulled down her pyjamas and started molesting her as others ransacked the house. He was interrupted by his accomplices, who were anxious to leave.
As the men fled in her loaded car, Tracey struggled to breathe.
Her oldest son and daughter ran to help, covering her with their own bedding, while Gary called for help.
Paramedics took Tracey to Rose Acres Hospital, a few blocks from her home.
Doctors found the bullet had pierced her shoulder and damaged her spine before lodging behind the trapezius muscle near her left shoulder bone. There was bleeding into her lungs.
The following morning she was transferred to Milpark Hospital’s intensive care unit.
There she was told she would never walk again.
At first, she plunged into a depression, but before long, circumstances forced her out of it.
“My mom had just been diagnosed with cancer, so I felt I needed to be strong for her.” (Her mother has since died.)
“I also needed to be there for my kids, so there was not much chance for me to feel sorry for myself,” Tracey said.
Medical bills are mounting, but most have been settled by medical aid. What did astonish the couple was being charged R500 by Rose Acres for an old, grey blanket used to cover Tracey in the ambulance.
She and husband Gary kept the attack out of the news, not wanting to jeopardise the police investigation.
Several days later, Kempton Park detectives arrested four suspects, one of whom was the boyfriend of their domestic worker; the other three were illegal immigrants.
The men are in custody, awaiting trial, and have been linked to several other crimes.
But while Tracey is pleased with the quick arrests, she still has a long recovery ahead.
When she missed her children and felt guilty for not being with them at sports days and other functions, a nurse encouraged her.
“She reminded me that while I might not be able to walk, I can still love my kids. And because I can move my arms, I can still hold them and hug them.”
Tracey faces weeks of rehabilitation, but she remains undaunted.
“I was angry, but that feeling went away. I think it’s because none of my kids were hurt.
“I believe God gives you what you can handle,” she said.
This article was originally published on page 3 of The Star on May 28, 2004
Source: Independent Online (IOL)
URL: http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=15&ar…/p>