Wife, Kidnapped and Beaten by Husband, Needs Expensive Surgery

On November sixteenth, Sabela Brakeman, a mother of three, endured a terrifying ordeal when her estranged husband, Kenny Brakeman, broke into her San Pedro home and kidnapped her. The harrowing sequence of events saw Sabela beaten and taken on a jet ski to the shores near Caye Caulker. Miraculously, she managed to escape by jumping off and swimming to safety. Though she survived, Sabela was left with severe injuries, including broken facial bones and loose teeth. She told News Five that a private surgeon estimated her surgeries would cost around twenty thousand dollars, and they can only be performed at a private hospital in Belize. Meanwhile, Kenny Brakeman remains at large, and Sabela lives in constant fear that he might find her again. Despite this, she is determined to move forward with her life. To help cover her medical expenses, Sabela is organizing a fundraiser with a barbeque sale this Friday in Bella Vista Village, where she now lives with her children. She needs your support to get the surgeries she desperately needs.

 

On the Phone: Sabela Brakeman, Kidnap Victim

“The doctor told me that he don’t do surgery and at KHMH they don’t do that kind of surgery. So he then recommended me to Dr. Hernandez, who told me that was the only doctor that do surgery in Belize for the type of facial surgery that I need. So, I went to Dr. Hernandez. He did an x-ray, then from there he sent me to Medical (Associates) to do a 3-D and in the result, it shows what all damage that I have. The estimate for Dr. Hernandez, just for doing surgery, would be $7,500 and then the three days, stay at Medical, and the medication that I would need, everything would be nineteen thousand, nine hundred and twenty dollars. So, I’m looking for assistance to see if anyone is willing to donate something towards my medical, my surgery.  Are you doing, are you doing any fundraisers of your own? I plan to do a barbecue fundraising.  And then we suffer Friday to see how much money I can do fundraising with so that’s the only plan I have right now, to try seek help and better get the money together.”