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Woman critical after setting self ablaze
The clock is ticking for a 25-year-old mother of one, who is a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after setting herself on fire last Tuesday at her Linden home. The incident occurred just before 11:30 hrs.
Ashawnti Parris
The injured woman has been identified as Ashawnti Parris of Buckhall, Wismar, Linden. Parris is nursing wounds to her entire body in the hospital’s Burns Care Unit.
According to information received, the woman and her partner were involved in an argument during which she lit herself on fire. This was allegedly done in the presence of her partner of eight months, who is said to be in police custody.
The woman’s mother, Kathleen Waldron told this newspaper yesterday, that the doctors attached to the aforementioned medical institution informed her that her daughter’s health is deteriorating.
She said that they also informed her that Parris’ days are “numbered”.
“They (doctors) said that her entire body burn up and that there is no skin on her body to repair any other part. They say that all the layers in her skin burn and there is nothing much they can do to save her,” the woman stated.
She recalled that she was at home when she received a call from her daughter’s partner, informing her that the woman had set herself on fire.
“He took her to the Linden hospital and then they bring her down to her to the hospital,” Waldron stated.
She added that at that point in time, her daughter’s lover informed her that he had left the home to go to the shop to purchase an item. “He said when he turn back he see the flames coming from the yard and when he rush, he see Ashawnti on fire.”
However, the woman said that her daughter informed her that her partner was there with her when she lit herself afire.
“She said that the two of them had an argument and he walk away. He was going to lock the gate with her still inside the yard, when she told him that she was going to burn herself to get his attention a little, and he told her to do it,” the woman said.
She added that her daughter informed her that she poured kerosene on her body after which she started the fire.
Investigations are ongoing.
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