Babysitter in custody following infant’s sudden death

Oct 14, 2016 News

A Sophia, Georgetown woman was taken into police custody on Wednesday, after the infant she had been taking care of for only two days, died under mysterious circumstances at her home.

Dead: Deykel Robertson

Six-month-old Deykel Robertson of 92 Plum Park, Sophia, was pronounced dead at the Campbellville Health Centre shortly after 12:30 hrs on Wednesday.
The baby’s mother, Shantel Alleyne in an interview yesterday, said that she was at work when her sibling called and informed her that she needed to go to the Campbellville police outpost because something had happened to the child.
“When I go, they ask me some questions and then I went to the health centre and see my child on a bed. He was already dead. His lip black, his face was swollen, and his belly swell up. That was not my child,” the woman said.
She explained that when she dropped off the baby at the woman’s Sophia home around 07:00 hrs, the child was healthy.
“I was taking care of him but I got called for a job, so I went to the woman’s home and asked her if she can take care of the baby from the Tuesday, but she said that she doesn’t know me so she can’t, but then she (eventually) called and tell me to take the baby,” the 19-year-old said.
Alleyne dropped off her only child on Tuesday morning and when her sibling collected him in the afternoon, he had developed a fever.
“I give him some panadol syrup and I bathed him, and the fever cut. The next morning (Wednesday), he was doing well when I dropped him off at her home, but then after lunch I heard that he was dead,” Alleyne recalled.
She said that the babysitter informed her that she had fed the baby and put him to sleep, but when she realized that he had not awoken, she picked him up—that’s when she realized that he was not breathing or moving.
“She said that she went and called the neighbour and the woman did CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on him and then they took him to the health centre, where he was pronounced dead,” Alleyne explained.
Investigators are waiting on the results of a Post Mortem examination today to determine how they would proceed with the probe.

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