Mother laces children’s snack with poison, attempts suicide

A 27-year-old mother of Bare Root, East Coast Demerara (ECD) and her three children were rushed to the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after she allegedly mixed a poisonous substance in a serving of snacks and fed it to them. After feeding the children the poisoned snacks, she reportedly ingested a poisonous substance.poison-img-630

Doctors are battling to save the lives of a three-year-old, a five-year-old and an eight-year-old, along with their mother.

Guyana Times understands that the woman mixed a quantity of carbon powder, a weedicide, and another poisonous substance, into the children’s snacks and fed it to them.

This newspaper was told that a relative visited the woman’s Bare Root, ECD home and realised that something was amiss when the three children began to vomit.

The relative reportedly questioned the children’s mother who then allegedly revealed what she had done.

As such, an alarm was raised and the children, as well as their mother were rushed to the GPHC and immediately admitted.

Officials at the hospital reported that they were initially told that the children started vomiting for no particular reason.

However, a hospital representative related that she noticed froth coming out of the children’s mouth and informed a Police Officer who was in the hospital. It was then that doctors realised that the children were poisoned and immediately rushed them to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Shortly afterwards, the mother of the children arrived with another set of relatives and was also vomiting.

Meanwhile, on the woman’s social media page – Facebook – in a status dated February 9, 2017, she posted about being disheartened about her husband’s extramarital affair. Investigators are working on the theory that this might have been the basis on which the woman committed the act.

Up to press time, the children were listed as serious.

Meanwhile, speaking with this publication, Head of the Childcare and Protection Agency, Ann Greene, said that the agency is aware of the incident and officers from the agency were sent to investigate the incident. She however described the act as an “unfortunate incident”.