The latrine
in which eight-month-old Unita Charles was found.
An 18-year-old woman identified as Sita Charlie, of Parika Façade,
East Bank Essequibo is currently in police custody assisting with
investigations after her eight-month-old baby was found in her latrine.
Reports are that police arrested the teen after concerned friends and
neighbours found eight-month-old Unita Charles’s partly decomposed
remains in a latrine aback her mother’s house.
The teen’s neighbour said she last saw the baby alive on Sunday but
heard the baby screaming on Monday.
“Monday morning early I hear this baby screaming bad and a li’l while
after I see de girl pass dress up and say she going out but we ain’t tek
it fuh nothing,”.
The woman recalled that later on Monday when the teen returned she
enquired about the baby and was told that the baby was left at a relative.
She
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“She just tell we she carry de baby by de sister but we suspect
something because all of a sudden she start using we toilet she didn’t
using she own.”
This newspaper was told that the teen continued her daily life, which
included hanging around the neighbourhood with male associates as if
nothing was wrong.
On Wednesday the neighbour said that some friends in the area were
consuming alcohol and the teen was in their company.
“All dem girls went drinking on de corner whole day and she just deh
playing around like nothing ain’t happen and dem girl start asking fuh
de baby.”
“One ah dem girl get vex and say leh we look fuh dis baby because we
suspect she do de baby something.” The woman said that they started
searching the woman’s house without her knowledge and even went to the
latrine where they made the gruesome discovery.
“We come back in front and we call she…we ask ‘girl wheh yo baby deh
and she keep saying de baby deh by she sister. One ah dem girl turn and
slap she and ask; you ain’t kill da baby.”
“All she seh is way ever de baby deh he deh and same time police de
passing and a boy run out to de road front and call dem and tell dem,”.
The teen, realising that she was cornered, attempted to run, but was
cornered by her friends. This newspaper was told that the teen had only
moved into the area on Sunday after leaving her in-laws.
According to Stacy Daniels, whose brother shared a relationship with the
teen, she last saw the teen with the child on Sunday.
Daniel explained that her brother who is a miner met the teen with the
baby and decided to start a relationship.
“She use to live with we, me brother who does deh in de bush…but he
does send money fuh she and de baby although de baby is not he own.”
The woman explained that on Sunday she and the teen attended a function
but the teen began getting cozy with another male.
“All I tell she is girl you deh with me brother and you can’t do dem
things. De next morning she move out with de baby. Monday I see she and
ask she how she come out without de baby and she tell me she can’t tek
care ah de baby no mo so she give it away to a lady.
The woman said she did not buy the story and went to the area where the
teen was living.
“I went and I start asking people who she give de baby to but everybody
saying dey ain’t see de baby fuh days.”
The woman said that many persons in the area who knew the baby were more
than willing to take the child.
One man in the area said, “Me want grandchildren long. I does mine a
puppy. If she de just lef da child at meh door I would tek she.”
Meanwhile, a source close to the investigation said that the teen has
since admitted to killing the baby saying that she was frustrated.
This newspaper was also told that when investigators removed the baby from
the latrine it was clad only in pampers and wrapped in a hammock and a bed
sheet.
The teen reportedly told investigators that she suffocated the baby and
dumped it in the latrine.
Up to press time yesterday the young mother was in police custody. Charges
are likely to be laid soon.
Saturday,
September 18, 2010
