One-year-old drowns in drain

Apr 02, 2014 News

A child is now dead after she allegedly drowned in a drain on Sunday, sometime between 10:30 hrs and 17:00 hrs.
Seventeen-month-old Carmella Amsterdam of lot M 541 Levi Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, was found floating in a drain not too far from her home a few hours after she went missing.
According to information, the child, whose parents hail from the Canje River, was with her grandmother Maria Sampson a greens vendor who resides at the above address. The grandmother reportedly went out and left the child in the care of her 21-year-old daughter-in-law Lydia Mendonca.
The woman told investigators that after the child was left in her care she (the child) went to sleep in a room while she went and slept in another room. The woman stated that sometime after when she woke up she did not see the child where she should have been. She began searching, but there was no trace of the child.
An alarm was raised and a search party was mounted. The child was eventually found some hours after in a nearby drain.
It is understood that the child after waking up, wandered out of the house and attempted to access the street using a narrow bridge that runs across the drain. She is believed to have lost her balance and fallen into the drain.
After she was found she was eventually taken to the New Amsterdam hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival. No marks of violence were found on her body. Her guardians were taken into custody, questioned and released. The body is at the New Amsterdam Hospital awaiting a post mortem examination.
Investigations are still continuing.

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