LIVERMORE FALLS — Dot Bailey still doesn’t sleep very well at night. She has lost her sense of security since two masked men entered her house, one with a handgun pointed at her, during the morning hours of June 27.
She thought it was a joke but soon found out it was real. They grabbed a container that held some of her rent money and change.
The 47-year-old grandmother fought back. Her young granddaughter was sleeping in another room.
As she fought, she was pistol-whipped multiple times.
The bruises have healed, her fingernails have grown back and the nine stitches needed to close her head wound have been removed.
She has a scar, an indentation, on her forehead where a gunman hit her with the butt of the gun.
“I just can’t believe someone can do something like this and still be walking around,” Bailey said. “I’m a little paranoid in stores.”
She saw one of her attackers take off his mask as they left. He had blond hair, cut short military-style, she said.
She didn’t see the face of the tall, skinny one, she said. He left his mask on.
The intruders have never been caught.
“I keep looking over my shoulder,” she said. “You never know if he is walking behind me. You look at every tall and skinny person as suspect.”
She has tightened security at her home, including locking her doors whether she is home or not, and has plenty of sharp weapons nearby, she said.
“The investigation is still active, and we are working with another agency on the case,” Livermore Falls police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. said.
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- “This is my little girl,” Dot Bailey said of her granddaughter, Nevaeh Bailey, 5, at their home in Livermore Falls. On June 27 their home was broken into by two armed men who beat Dot and stole her rent money and other change while Nevaeh was sleeping in another room. All of Dot’s physical wounds have healed, but she is still looking over her shoulder and unable to sleep well at night.
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