Corentyne boy crushed by tractor died of head injuries - autopsy

Corentyne boy crushed by tractor died of head injuries – autopsy

Oct 08, 2013 News

Dead: Charran
‘Rocky’ Hanoman

A post mortem performed on nine- year- old Charran ‘Rocky’ Hanoman yesterday at the Skeldon Hospital, by Government Pathologist, Dr. Vivekanand Brijmohan concluded that he died of head injuries and hemorrhage. He is expected to be buried tomorrow.
The child of Lot 24, Number 64 Village Squatting Area on the Corentyne lost his life after he fell off a moving John Deere four-wheel tractor last Saturday. The incident occurred on the child’s ninth birthday in the Number 64 Village backlands.
That day, the Grade Four pupil of the New Market Primary School, reportedly insisted on accompanying his grandfather, Manichand Hanoman, 54, to the back dam to plough rice. They left home around 11:30hrs that morning to plough a plot of rice field. Hanoman was very distraught about the incident and the way it happened. It was his only grandchild. He stated that on the day, he promised the boy that after they would have returned home, “I will return to buy him a birthday gift, a bicycle.”
I felt like he was “running out of the line that I was ploughing and I stepped on the clutch and the boy just pitched out of the tractor—it made a dead stop,” Hanoman posited.
“He [Rocky] hit his head on the ground—I tried to hold the boy and my foot slipped off the clutch and the edge of the back wheel of the tractor hit him on his head.”
“I jumped off the tractor and when I picked him up, he started to bleed through his nose and mouth and a minute after he died…he just made like two blows [breaths],” he added.
The body was removed and taken to the Skeldon Hospital Mortuary.
Hanoman, in a frantic state, then telephoned his son, Yadoo, who was on his way from the airport. “Then I called the police and they took me into custody until Saturday night.” The two shared a very close relationship, according to relatives.
The boy would spend more time at Hanoman’s home a stone’s throw from his mother, Vashti’s home.
“The boy was Hanoman’s only grandson. It’s a great loss to the family,” said Yadoo.