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Toddler succumbs after fall
A two-year-old child was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation where he was rushed around 13:30 hrs yesterday, minutes after he fell through the flooring of his grandparents’ two storey Buxton, East Coast Demerara home.
The incident occurred at Lot 82 Sideline Dam, Buxton. Kaieteur News understands that little Sean Junior Robertson fell through the flooring of the upper flat of the property and landed some 13 feet on the muddy dam below.
Dead: Sean Junior Robertson
According to information, Sean’s grandfather had been carrying out rehabilitation works on the flooring of the four- bedroom home when the child slipped through one of the holes, left open by the ongoing works.
Yesterday at the hospital, the child’s father, Linden Alves said that he received a telephone call from someone informing him that his son fell from his grandparents’ home and was at the hospital.
“He does normally go by his grandparents home to spend time and I got a call that he fell and when I come here, I found out that he is dead,” Alves said in tears.
Meanwhile, the child’s grandmother, Shellon Adams told Kaieteur News that she was in the kitchen cooking, and her husband who was working on the flooring of their home shouted to her that Sean had fallen.
“He run and he pick up he (Sean) and when he bring he upstairs, he (Sean) wasn’t talking and we bring him to the hospital and the doctors say he dead,” Adams said in tears.
She added that she would normally collect her grandson from his parents every morning to keep her company. “Every day he does come and play with me,” she cried.
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