‘She Never Got A Chance To Live’ — Shani Coke, 10, Found Raped & Dead, Sparking Outrage In Jamaica As Repeat Sex Offender Killed By Mob Seeking Jungle Justice
After not returning from the store, Shani's body was discovered partially clothed and showed clear signs of rape, with her throat slit on the roadside in Troy, Trelawny, sending her tight-knit community into chaos and heartbreak. The post ‘She Never Got A Chance To Live’ — Shani Coke, 10, Found Raped & Dead, Sparking Outrage In Jamaica As Repeat Sex Offender Killed By Mob Seeking Jungle Justice appeared first on MadameNoire.
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A tight-knit community in Troy, a usually quiet farming district in southern Trelawny, Jamaica, is in shambles following the discovery of 10-year-old Shani Coke’s lifeless body, which was found in the bushes off a roadway last Tuesday.
Described by her maternal grandmother as a “polite, intelligent child who excelled at school,” Shani’s partially clothed and ravaged body showed clear signs of rape, and her throat had also been sadistically slashed.
The young girl’s gruesome murder and the subsequent death of the suspected culprit, Delroy Coke, Shani’s cousin, and the hospitalization of his father, Maxwell Coke, at the hands of an angry mob seeking jungle justice have sent shockwaves across the Caribbean island and its diaspora, sparking conversations online and in homes about pedophilia, sexual assault, and weaknesses in Jamaica’s criminal justice system.
“When you see her, all you could say was, ‘Jesus’,” Merle Williams, Shani’s grandmother, who had raised the child since birth while her mother worked elsewhere, told The Gleaner. “I couldn’t believe it. I was frightened and shocked.”
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