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Infant suffocates in Albouystown house
A grief stricken Tracy Andrews.
A two-month-old infant was pronounced dead on arrival at the Georgetown Public Hospital last night.
According to the child’s mother, Tracy Andrews, the child, Malika Mullen, was left on a bed while her mother went to a nearby restaurant to purchase food, around 21:30hrs.
The child was left in the care of her father, Morris Mullen, 48.
“She father come home and said that he was hungry so I left de baby sleeping on de bed and went to buy the food,” Andrews recalled.
The visibly distraught mother said that whilst she was walking up the road she heard a “junkie” calling her name.
“When I look around he seh something happen to your daughter because she father shouting and crying.”
The woman said that she quickly went back to her Lot 25 Hill Street, Albouystown home, and saw her daughter gasping for air. Her father was carrying her in his arms and crying.
Five of the Mullen’s children
She said that baby Malika was immediately rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where doctors delivered the grim news.
With tears streaming down her face, Andrews said that she was told by the father that he was about to go to the kitchen when he decided that he should check his daughter. He had been watching television.
The woman said that the father told her that he saw the child chocked against the wall and the shawl with which she had been covered across her face.
She said that Mullen quickly went to the child and picked her up. He saw her gasping for air.
“She father don’t even like holding them when them so small, because he does frighten” Andrews said.
Wendell Andrews, an uncle of the dead child, told this newspaper that he was awakened by his girlfriend and told that something was wrong at his house.
He said that after he arrived at the house he held his niece, and felt her heart beating.
“I hold she and thought I feel she heart beating, but I feel it was a vibration”.
The dead child leaves to mourn five brothers and sisters and her parents.
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