“I could imagine how my child bawl for she mother and father when they do she wah they do she”- mother of dead Adrianna Younge

Apr 27, 2025 News

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“God in heaven knows when they do that post mortem what more me gon hear they do to me child. I got to beg God for faith that day, girl, for my innocent baby…they leaving me without my 11-year-old for the rest of my life. That is my first child.”- Amecia Simon

 

 By Davina Bagot

Kaieteur News- “From the time this thing happened I told them I said my 11-year- old will not leave here to go anywhere. I have three children and I can tell you about Adrianna. She is my quietest child. My nine-year-old would have to represent her 11-year-old sister. All my child does is complain. She can’t represent herself and I could imagine how my child bawl for she mother and father when they do she wah they do she. I could imagine how meh baby bawl fah we.”

These were the words of a sobbing mother, Amecia Simon, who discovered the lifeless body of her eldest daughter, Adrianna Younge, in the pool of the Double Day International Hotel and Bar on Thursday morning.

The child was reported missing the previous day during an outing with her grandmother.

The grieving mom, in an interview with this publication, recalled the harrowing details of the day her daughter went missing, even as she swore to spend sleepless nights, seeking justice for her daughter.

Adrianna goes missing

On April 23, Adrianna vanished from the hotel after she was reportedly sent by her grandmother to seek a ‘pool pass’. It was the last time she was seen by her loved ones. After observing that she did not return, her grandmother raised an alarm in an effort to find the missing child, but this proved futile.

The family was reportedly informed that the cameras at the hotel were not working.

When Simon arrived at the scene that evening, she spoke with the owner, Bhojnauth Bhola.

She said, “He was right there when this thing happened. When my child went missing and I got there, he was right there and when the Police came there after people came out to support me, they didn’t come there to me or none of my family or people that were concerned. They came there to protect this boy and his business.”

She said a police officer from the CID (name withheld) informed her that footage shows the child leaving the hotel, but independent checks done by the family showed otherwise. The Police would also later confirm that their statement was inaccurate.

“The neighbour footage showed over and over, from six something to after nine, that my child never came out of that place and he still come out and said he got the man name and number and picture,” the child’s mother said.

The officer reportedly told the mother that he was going to review the footage again and then launch a search in La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, to find the individual who allegedly took the child.

She said she was told by the same CID officer that the cameras at the hotel are not working. This information was reportedly passed on to the police by the owner who alleged that none of the cameras were operable. “He said now they setting it up,” the mother noted.

In response, she said she begged the Police to shut down the hotel and conduct a thorough search of the premises, but this was denied. “He said me, ‘you want me to be left without a job? I can’t do that because I done search.’”

The woman, however, said she only observed the officer and his boss walking around the building. To date, she said she has not seen the officer again since he informed her that he was leaving to review the footage of the man who took her daughter.

It was not until several hours had elapsed that the hotel was shut down, the woman explained. “A CID come there and shut down that place at 12:00am. Now, you tell me, from since one o’clock close to two, to 11, 12, then they come and shut down that place. At that moment, they done do what they had to do with me daughter,” the mourning mother said.

Simon added, “I beg so like a dog. I said we is villager, give me my daughter. He do like he ain’t hear me. He just deh opening rooms where you could see, but I believe that place got secret rooms. That place got a ritual room that they go there and do things inside. But this God here don’t sleep.”

Justice

Meanwhile, the grieving parent said she received a call from the mother of the young man who died at the hotel back in 2012. “The woman said I pray that you get justice for your daughter because I never get justice for my son but this here, I will get justice. I ain’t sleeping. I will get justice! He has to go to jail!”

The family is anticipating the arrival of an independent pathologist to conduct a Post Mortem Examination on the child. The mother said she refuses to accept any report that her daughter died of drowning.

Simon cried, “God in heaven knows when they do that post mortem what more me gon hear they do to me child. I got to beg God for faith that day girl for my innocent baby…they leaving me without my 11-year-old for the rest of my life. That is my first child.”

Little Adrianna just sat the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) and was awaiting placement at a new school. She would have celebrated her 12^th birthday on November 12.

Her mother, a hard-working employee at a popular fast-food restaurant said her daughter was very loving and was like a parent to her younger siblings.

“Me ain’t got money. Me ain’t rich. I does work hard. When I leave my children and I go to work, Adrianna does be like a mother to she brother and sister till she father come home to look after them. I does go and stand up on me foot at Popeyes. I am a supervisor. I does work like a staff and a supervisor. Even to me boss called me yesterday in tears, Mr. Singh, because that man knows how I does work and that is what they gon do me child? No, I spending sleepless nights for them.”

No remorse

The owner of the burnt hotel and staff that were on duty are in custody assisting with the investigation.

The child’s mother said she visited the Police station where she confronted an uncompassionate individual.

“They brought him out, the owner for the place and I told him, I said, I asked you for my daughter. Why didn’t you give me my daughter? Why did you do you that and he watched me with no remorse and said he did not do it, but let me tell you, this God don’t sleep and this won’t go down like the rest wah he do,” the mother cried.

She said the man was then escorted back to a cell. In the meantime, the mother is dreading the results to come from the autopsy to be done on Monday.

“Right now I trying to keep sane for my two children but me thing very, very, very serious because I got to live without me child for the rest of me life.”

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