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Burnt nine-yr-old at Rehab Centre…Child protection agency to meet with school officials

Mar 29, 2013 News

 

Officials from the Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) are expected to meet with staffers at the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre to follow-up on an investigation concerning the nine-year old girl who received several burns to her face last Friday while at the facility.
According to the child’s mother, Sherlyn Hamilton, she returned to the school yesterday only to be told that the matter was being investigated. The woman told this newspaper that she went to the CPA, and they “immediately picked up the matter”. Hamilton said that staffers from the school along with officials from the agency have scheduled a meeting for next Tuesday to have the matter sorted out.
According to Hamilton, her daughter Delicia who suffers from Cerebral Palsy, sustained burns to the face, last Friday, while at the centre.

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