Sophia baby died from brain hemorrhage

Jun 26, 2012 News

A postmortem performed yesterday on the remains of the four-month-old boy from Sophia, revealed that he sustained a head injury and died from hemorrhage of the brain.
The injury is said to have been consistent with reports by family members that the child fell.
But a senior police official said that investigators have still not ruled out foul play and are sending a report on the case to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
The child’s 54-year-old grandmother was still in custody up to late yesterday evening.
Four-month-old Kevon Jordan, of Thirteenth Street, ‘A’ Field Sophia, died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Accident and Emergency Unit last Wednesday night after being rushed there by his grandmother and stepfather.
Kaieteur News understands that the baby’s grandmother told hospital staff that Kevon had fallen off a bed. But a staffer allegedly notified the police after observing suspicious bruises on the baby’s face.
But Kevin Maloney, the baby’s stepfather, is adamant that the baby died of natural causes. According to Maloney, baby Kevon has had a cold since birth.
According to information when the baby arrived at the hospital it was reportedly ‘panting for breath’ and reportedly had bruises on his face.
The grandmother had told Kaieteur News that her son had brought the baby to her home about a month ago and told her that the baby’s mother had gone into the interior for two weeks.
She said the baby appeared to be malnourished and was tiny. She also said that the child had ‘a terrible cold’ and was hardly eating.
She said that the baby fell off the bed last Wednesday. She also claimed that the bruises on the baby’s face were a result of the fall.
The woman’s son claimed that he arrived home shortly after 09:00hrs, and he found the baby lying face-down on the concrete floor.
“When I come home, my mother went to the shop and I see the baby on the floor and then my sister said ‘Oh he fall, I hear he was crying but I think he wake up and was crying on the bed.’
“I then pick him up and put him on the bed and a while after he start cry and I pat him to try to put him to sleep.”
Maloney said he then realized that the baby was panting for breath and he informed his mother and both of them rushed him to the hospital, where he eventually succumbed.
The man claimed that the baby had also contracted gastroenteritis but wasn’t given any medication.

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