Latest update June 13th, 2026 12:40 AM
Boy, 9, bound, found floating naked
The bound and partially decomposed body of nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens was yesterday fished out of a trench in the backlands at South Ruimveldt, three days after he went missing.
Nine-year-old Shaquan Gittens (inset) was found floating
His bloated body, minus his trousers, was found floating in the trench around 15:35 hrs. He was clad only in a green jersey.
The shocking discovery was made by a farmer who was heading into the backlands. When his body was pulled from the trench, a strip of cloth was seen hanging from both hands.
Investigators believed that the lad was bound and sodomized by persons who lured him into the lonely area, which is approximately half a mile from the nearest house in South Ruimveldt.
Due to its decomposed state, police were unable to detect any marks of violence. They are awaiting a post mortem examination to determine how the lad met his demise.
At the scene yesterday, Gittens’ mother, Doysha, collapsed when a relative positively identified the victim as her son.
He was identified by the green Ninja Turtles T-Shirt he was last seen wearing.
Dozens of relatives who flocked the scene were heard screaming and questioning what
The lad’s mother (on the floor in orange pants) flocked by other relatives.
he was doing there and who could have killed him.
“Oh meh baby gone… What he doing here. My baby gone, my baby gone… I want my baby,” his mother cried.
The child’s relatives were too distraught to speak to reporters.
Relatives said they last saw Shaquan alive around noon on April Fool’s Day, when he went home to have lunch after flying kites near his parents’ North Ruimveldt home.
His mother, a teacher, had told the media that she left him in the care of his 15-year-old brother and went to work.
When she returned home later that day and did not see the lad, she asked his sibling who then informed her that he had left to go on the streets and play.
According to the woman, her neighbours had informed her that they had seen the youngster flying a kite.
The older Gittens said that after a few hours passed and her son failed to return, she went out into the community and searched for him.
The following day, she made a missing person report and shared flyers, hoping that she would find the young man alive.
“He never disappeared before,” she had told this newspaper.
When the mother of two received the call yesterday that a body was found, she was in Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD), searching for him after someone had called and informed her that he was seen walking on the roadway.
Yesterday, after the body was pulled out, investigators left the scene to go into his neighbourhood to question his friends.
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