In New York’s Little Guyana, An Immigrant Community Grapples With Domestic Violence

Artwork by Maggie Chiang. Courtesy The Lily.

By Sushmita Sudhir Pathak | The Lily

On New Year’s Day, police officers in the 106th precinct of Queens responded to a 911 call. When they arrived, they found a woman lying face down in an upstairs bedroom. She had multiple stab wounds to her torso and was pronounced dead.

Her name was Stacy Singh.

Two hours before they found Singh, the police had found her husband’s corpse swinging from a tree less than two miles away. Vishwanand Loknath had murdered his wife at their home in the early hours of the new year and then taken his own life.

The 26-year-old mother of two became the first New York City homicide of 2018. In her Indo-Caribbean Queens community, her death was far from the first of its kind.

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