Hitting below the belt

By Monique Tamminga - Langley Times

Published: October 15, 2009 6:00 PM



Men walking in the Brookswood area may want to consider wearing a sports cup, after a man was randomly kicked in the groin by a woman in high heels last month. The kick was so violent, her victim has lost one testicle.

The crime has police concerned and the young man warning he isn’t the only victim of this high-heeled assault queen.

“It was around 2 p.m. in early September and I was walking by myself to McDonald’s, which is just on 41 Avenue,” said 22-year-old “Ed” (not his real name).

“The girl was walking in the opposite direction as me and I didn’t think anything of it, when all of a sudden she laid the boots to it.”

In absolute agony, Ed fell to the ground. He thinks he had lain there for around 15 minutes before gaining the strength to get up and go home. Before or after the attack, the woman said nothing.

“She didn’t say anything to me. I thought either she is really disgruntled with her boyfriend and I was the first male she saw or she’s disturbed. My mom heard from some constables that this is the third time in the past month this has happened. One of the times happened at night.”

As the assault is not the kind of thing you want to tell people about, Ed didn’t go to police right away.

The damaging blow to his testicles sent one of them up into his abdomen.

“I saw a specialist and I went into surgery believing they could bring my testicle down again. But when I woke up from surgery I was given the bad news that it had partially ruptured and so they had to remove it.”

He will get a prosthetic in December. But, from what he has been told, there could be a change to his testosterone levels which could have life-long effects. Ed is coming forward because he wants the girl caught, but he also doesn’t want anyone else to go through the terrible and life-altering things he has been through.

Langley RCMP are using their crime analyst to see if other attacks of this nature have taken place.

“There may be other men who haven’t come forward to the police,” said Cpl. Holly Marks. She urges those men to call or come in if the woman has attacked them.

She said there isn’t a way for her to track if there has been similar attacks.

Before the attack, Ed was ready to start working again after being off on work-related injury for a year. Now he’ll be off for at least four more weeks without any heavy lifting.

His EI has run dry.

“It has not been good,” he said.

Ed didn’t get a detailed description of the girl because he didn’t expect her to kick him. She is described as in her 20s, or younger, 5’5” to 5’7”, brunette and Caucasian. He had never seen her before and doesn’t think he’s seen her since.