The Tribune

By AVA TURNQUEST

Tribune Staff Reporter

aturnquest@tribunemedia.net

Stacey Rolle is the last of her father’s three daughters. Staying on the right path has been no small task for her, and the struggle continues daily.

Ms Rolle, 32, has intimate knowledge of the dangers of getting “caught up” in a destructive lifestyle.

She is a victim of domestic abuse and a bereaved loved one of two murdered sisters.

“My sister who was killed in 2006 was Lacey Rolle. My sister who was killed just the other day was Tracey Rolle,” said Stacey.

“It’s upsetting. I took [Tracey’s] death very hard. Lacey’s own was terrible, but Tracey’s death affected me even more because we had more time to grow together. She didn’t have to die. It’s still hard for me to accept that she’s gone,” she said.

According to police, on January 12, Tracey and a man were at a residence on South Beach Drive off Bougainvillea Avenue shortly after 4am when another man kicked down the front door and forced his way in.

He then stabbed both victims before fleeing on foot, according to police records. Tracey was stabbed several times in her chest and the man she was with, Renardo Moncur, twice in one of his arms. Police pronounced Tracey dead at the scene.

At the scene, Ms Rolle said she was traumatised by the extent of Tracey’s injuries.

She believes police could have done more to protect her youngest sister.

She said she also experiences personal guilt that she did not know enough to save her 23-year-old sister.

Her sister Lacey died when she was 17. Her partially burnt body was found in bushes in the Golden Gates area. It was a week before her 18th birthday.

Ms Rolle said: “They lived kind of fast I won’t lie, but it also stems back to a rough childhood.”

Ms Rolle did not share the same mother as her two sisters. Under the care of her paternal grandmother, Ms Rolle attended church and was given a private education.

“They went somewhere else, and I think because I was reared in a Christian home, and grew up in the church I think that’s the only reason that saved me. If it wasn’t for that I think I would be dead too,” said Stacey.

Ms Rolle says she strayed from her Christian upbringing. Even following the death of her first sister, it was not until she became a victim of abuse herself that she got a “wake up call”.

“I was down the wrong path,” she said, adding that she met and fooled with the wrong guy.

“A particular guy who I started to get involved with tried to kill me.”

Ms Rolle said she was beaten.

She believes women should never accept abuse as a form of love.

“If a man hits you that is not love, I don’t care how much he tries to have sex with you nicely afterwards to make up, because that’s what they do, they don’t just beat you and treat you cold that’s the last stage of it,” she said. “It graduates there.”

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