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Accused offers $1M to dead girl’s family

Jul 18, 2011 News

Mahendra ‘Bangat’ Ramanan, 36, of Number Two Village, West Coast Berbice re-appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court last Monday.
He was facing three charges which resulted in the death of nine- year- old Jaswattie Ramnauth and severe injuries to her brother, Vijai Ramnauth, who were both struck down on the Cotton Tree Public Road on the morning of June 20.
The car, which was speeding, careened off the West Berbice Public Road, hitting the two children before crashing into a concrete fence.
The children were knocked some distance away as a result of the heavy impact. The girl died on the spot while the boy sustained broken limbs and head injuries.
Mrs.  Ramnauth said that Ramanan offered them $1M in compensation for killing their daughter but the family will not accept the offer.
The mother said Ramanad told her husband that he wants to give the family $1M “for the girl that was killed” but he said that he did not have “anything to give the little boy in bed (Vijai) since he go walk just now”.
She added that her husband did not accept the deal. The Ramnauths are finding it difficult to make ends meet as it relates to paying medical bills for treatment for little Vijai.
“He’s coming around but it will take time because a lot of pain. In the night, he screams for his belly, sometimes his feet,” his mother said.
“With a knock like that, you gotta expect pain”, Mrs. Ramnauth told this newspaper recently.
The same driver also hit 12- year- old Sateshwar Ragunandan with the car in 2009, resulting in the boy becoming paralyzed. His mother, Kellawattie Ragunandan, said that she too wants justice.
The accident, she said, has left permanent ‘scars’ which are still evident to this day. Ramanan will return to court on August 15 when the matter is scheduled to be continued.
Several kind- hearted persons, through Kaieteur News in Berbice, have expressed desire to lend some financial assistance to the Ramnauths and have done so. Others can use NBS Account: 717844 in the name of Dhanwattie Ramnauth.

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