Baby dies, infant brother hospitalised following abuse
The details of how the abuse occurred are far from settled and likely be dealt with in a court of law. But justice will come too late for a little girl named Delcy White. Delcy, who would have turned three next Monday, died Tuesday morning at the K.H.M.H. after suffering a fractured skull and severe head trauma.
In her report to police, Delcy’s mother, Shian White, said she had left Delcy and her younger child, four-month old Kenroy White with her boyfriend sometime between six-thirty and seven on Sunday morning inside their small dwelling on Zacaranda Street to visit a friend in the same yard. However, when she returned, she found the little girl sleeping and breathing heavily. White’s account to police was that her boyfriend told her the child had soiled her underpants and after changing her, he had beaten the child. Police say they visited both children in the K.H.M.H. on Tuesday and observed that Delcy had a cut bottom lip, a tooth missing and bruises on her buttocks and both knees. Meanwhile, little Kenroy had a swollen head. A C-T scan revealed that he too suffered a fractured skull. While Police Commissioner Gerald Westby has given his assurance that those responsible for the incident will be dealt with to the fullest extent, Delcy’s grandfather says he’s had problems sleeping since he found out about the occurrence on Monday.
Earl Acosta, Grandfather of Deceased
“We went to the hospital and we saw her on the machine.”
Marion Ali
“What’s the report that you got? What happened to her?”
Earl Acosta
“Well, that she fell down a step and got hurt.”
Marion Ali
“She and her brother?”
Earl Acosta
“Well, yeah that’s we got the report as she and her brother.”
Marion Ali
“And who told you this?”
Earl Acosta
“My wife got the call and she called me. She was gonna be three on Monday. She was a beautiful little girl and she was a nice little girl. Everybody loved her and when she was here with us she had everything that she wanted but so comes that she had to leave. I believe somebody has to be responsible. Yes, somebody is responsible but I don’t want to comment on that part since the case is still under investigation.”
Marion Ali
“But ih certainly mek yoh feel wah way?”
Earl Acosta
“Yes, I feel a lot but God knows best and if somebody do it … God noh di sleep.”
Sources indicate to News Five that the accounts given by Shian White have not been consistent and that the children may have been beaten with a stick. At news time the mother was still being interrogated by police.
