An 11-year-old child was on Monday found dead under a hammock in her yard. However, minutes before, the girl was reportedly seen playing in the hammock.
Dead is Tinesha Johnson, a student of Tagore Memorial Secondary and of Number 50 Village, Corentyne, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne).
Dead: Tinesha Johnson
According to the Police, the child’s 35-year-old mother, Latoya Lavric also called “Toya”, said she left her four children at home and went to purchase fish from a mobile vendor and had gone about 50 metres away from her home onto the public road.
The child’s mother said that she was delayed while making her fish purchase but maintained that she was not away for a lengthy period of time.
Whilst making a purchase, the woman’s nine-year-old son rushed out to her saying that something was wrong with his sister.
“I go on the road with $1000 to buy a thousand dollars’ worth of fish and the man didn’t have $1000 fish; he only had $3000 and $4000 fish. So, I called and tell them to bring out $5000 and when they bring out the money, they see her in the hammock.”
According to the dead girl’s older sister, it was only moments before she saw her sister alive and jolly.
“When my sister come downstairs and swinging for her, she was swinging in the hammock but a couple minutes after mommy called for the money and while I was coming downstairs to put on my slippers, I raised my head and I see her on her knees in the hammock – her neck wrap around the hammock. I went and checked on her and told her to get up now ‘you can’t fool me’ but then I didn’t see her respond and I held her hand and loose it and it drop down.”
The sister said she raised her sister’s clothing to see if she was breathing but she was not.
The hammock in which the 11-year-old was swinging at the time of her death
“When I raise up her face to take her out of the hammock, my hand had blood. When I see it, I feel weak and my heart start hurting and when I run out on the road I didn’t have the strength to get up back so I just shout, ‘mommy Tinesha dead’,” the sister related.
Police have since said that the child was picked up and rushed to Skeldon Public Hospital, where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
The 11-year-old was one of the poultry farmer’s four children.
“She is a person who loves to eat. Anything she see lingering she always wants to eat but she was a very nice person,” her mother recalled.
Meanwhile, the body is currently at the Skeldon Hospital Mortuary awaiting a post-mortem examination. (G4)
