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http://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/ITS--ALL--LIES-297737551.htmlIT’S ALL LIES
Mother of Rowley’s child on Vernella’s rape claim:
By Ria Taitt Political Editor
Story Created: Mar 26, 2015 at 10:05 PM ECT
Story Updated: Mar 26, 2015 at 10:05 PM ECT
Roselyn Alleyne, the woman who Vernella Alleyne-Toppin alleged was raped 46 years ago by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley, is “disgusted” and horrified by Alleyne-Toppin’s assertion.
And she cannot understand why people would “fabricate such lies”.
In an exclusive interview with the Express yesterday, Roselyn Alleyne, who is the mother of Garth Alleyne, the 45-year-old son of Rowley, also stated Vernella Alleyne-Toppin is not a relative of hers. “She does not know me. If she sees me anywhere she would not know me. And that should sum up everything,” she said.
Roselyn said she heard about Alleyne-Toppin’s contribution at Wednesday’s debate in the House of Representatives, on the no-confidence motion brought by the Government against Rowley. She said she received texts from Trinidad and Tobago, stating “me and my child were talked about” in Parliament.
“And I asked why? We are happy people. I am here (in Canada) working hard in the cold,” she said. Both Roselyn and her son live in Canada. She has lived there for the past 30 years.
“All of what she is saying on the news, take it from me, it’s all a lie,” Roselyn stated.
Alleyne-Toppin had claimed Roselyn was a pupil of Roxborough Secondary School when she became pregnant by Rowley.
But Roselyn said yesterday, she never attended Roxborough Secondary School. “When I passed Common Entrance, Roxborough wasn’t even constructed,” she said.
Asked whether Rowley ever taught her as Alleyne-Toppin claimed, Roselyn said: “How could he when we are around the same age?” Roselyn said she is 63 years old. (Rowley is 65 years old).
“I am old and hoping to retire soon,” she said. “Don’t listen to these people. Everything that they say is a lie. I have never communicated with these people (Alleyne-Toppin) and I am always home. I go home every year, for a week, two weeks,” she said.
Told the reports were she was 13 or 14 when she became pregnant, Roselyn said:
“Wow!” I think I am being confused with somebody else,” adding she became pregnant when she had already finished school and was at home, helping her mother who used to bake things in order to earn an income to send her younger sibling to school. “As I keep telling you, everything they say is a lie. And they need to stop,” she said.
“I hear she is saying that he raped me for over four hours. That’s disgusting!” Roselyn said. Told Alleyne-Toppin had also stated she was kidnapped, Roselyn exclaimed: “What? Keith has to stop her because that is slandering somebody’s character.
And when she talks like that, she is making me sound like something that I am not. Wow! Kidnapped, raped and dumped,” she said.
Roselyn said in 2013 when her brother died, she returned to Tobago to attend the funeral. She said someone
came around, asking members of her family if she
(Alleyne-Toppin) and they were close, and “they were trying to persuade other family members to get me to sign false documents”.
She said she brushed off the whole event. “I thought that was over. I didn’t know these people still going around with this thing,” she said.
Asked what was the nature of her relationship with Alleyne-Toppin, who claimed to be a relative and therefore to have intimate details of her life,
Roselyn said: “Excuse me?” I am not related to that woman. We are not blood relatives.” She said there were many people with the same last name who were not related.
She said Alleyne-Toppin came to live in Charlotteville after her (Alleyne-Toppin) father moved there. She said it was a small village and everyone knew each other.
“But we never knew them as being related to us because we couldn’t draw any connecting lines between the two families,” she said.
She said when Alleyne-Toppin started elementary school, she (Alleyne-Toppin) and her (Roselyn’s) sister were in the same class and they also attended Bishop’s High School together. But, she maintained Alleyne-Toppin did not know her.
She said she comes home all the time and she never met the minister. She added her youngest daughter, who returned to Trinidad and Tobago after finishing university in Canada, lives here now.
“I realise these people are fishing but they are putting out the wrong bait to a whole country. And when you are fishing for something, you take stories from other people who may fabricate, but you have nothing to back it up,” she said.
Roselyn, who said she had no interest in political matters,
said Alleyne-Toppin was “slandering my name and it needs to stop. That is all I am interested in”. She said she was not angry.
“She is slandering me to get at Keith. Attack the person that you want to attack but don’t slander my name. And if you are trying to get back at someone, don’t lie. It becomes a boomerang and we know what boomerangs do.
“She has to apologise. And go and tell the public that the things that she has said are not true,” she said.
“My business is fixed. All my kids are grown up. And Vernella Alleyne-Toppin has nothing over me,” said Roselyn.
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