Latest update November 29th, 2024 1:00 AM
Grove decomposing bodies… Mother died from pneumonia, baby probably starved to death
Dead: 30-year-old Eulenea Charles
“It is a sick way to die.” That was the remark of a mother after hearing of how a mother and her six-month-old met their deaths.
A post mortem examination performed on the remains yesterday, revealed that 30-year-old Eulenea Charles died from pneumonia, which stemmed from a chronic illness.
Pathologist Dr. Nehaul Singh could not determine how the woman’s six-month-old daughter died.
There is however the suggestion that the infant died from starvation.
The two decomposing bodies of the woman and her baby were discovered last Friday at their Lot 408 Section ‘C’, Block Y, Golden Grove, East Bank Demerara home.
The two were found lying on an electrical extension cord sprawled on the floor. It was at first suspected that they were electrocuted.
“Maybe after the mother died, the child was left without anything to eat for days. That was a baby they feed almost every couple hours,” a woman at the Georgetown Public Hospital Mortuary told this newspaper.
According to reports, the bodies were found about 23:00 hours Friday after another tenant who resides in the same building, but in a separate apartment started experiencing an intolerable stench emanating from the woman’s apartment.
The concerned neighbour reportedly contacted the owner of the property who is overseas-based, who then told her to call the police and “break down the door.”
That was done and the appalling discovery was made.
Two of the dead woman’s neighbours, who reside in separate yards, told Kaieteur News that they last saw her about three weeks ago.
Kaieteur News understands that the woman had recently moved into the neighbourhood with her husband, who works in the interior.
Neighbours have all claimed that Charles hardly interacted with them. “She don’t speak to people; she don’t even say morning”, one neighbour said.
According to the neighbours, they have never heard the woman and her husband arguing since they were very “quiet people”.
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