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Nine-year-old takes poison under questionable circumstances

Jul 10, 2009 News

A Reliance family’s final hope for the survival of their nine-year-old relative is centered on God.
This nine-year-old had consumed a poisonous substance last Sunday at her grandmother’s home in Reliance, Essequibo Coast. Up to press time the child’s condition was listed as critical as she remains a patient at the Suddie Public Hospital.
A cousin of the nine-year-old and the child’s grandfather who requested anonymity appeared to be at odds over the motive for the young child ingesting a harmful and poisonous substance.
The cousin, a 23-year-old said that at one point while on a brief visit to her home almost two streets away, the child had related to her a very unpleasant story.
The young girl, who lives with her grandmother, who is in her sixties, told her elder cousin that on many occasions the elder guardian would give to her an illegal alcoholic beverage to consume.
She also complained to her cousin of being repeatedly fondled and being made to sit on a photographer’s lap. This man frequented her grandmother’s home.
According to the child’s cousin, the girl said that on many occasions when the photographer visit her grannies’ home the elderly alcoholic would inform the child of the photographer’s visit and the man would insist that she sit on his lap.
More recently, the child said that whenever the photographer would visit she would run and hide, but the grandmother would strongly insist that she meet with the photographer.
The child‘s mother died nine years ago and she was left in the guardianship of her grandmother who is said to be very controlling. The young child has two older siblings.
A senior administrative officer attached at the Suddie Public Hospital, when asked for an update on the child’s present condition, said that she was deteriorating

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