5-year-old girl stabbed by mother’s friend who then committed suicide

A five-year-old girl was rendered critical after she was stabbed multiple times about her tiny body by her mother’s friend – who later committed suicide.

Little Mureena Brock, of La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara (ECD), was on Friday last stabbed to the back, shoulder and stomach by her mother’s 40-year-old friend, Veronica Elliot, who resided at Atlantic Gardens, ECD.
The child’s mother, Bibi Mohamed, explained that on the day in question, she was at her friend’s home, sitting in the yard, when Elliot began to close the grille door with a padlock.
“She [Elliot] close the grille door with a padlock and was in the house walking up and down. But nobody didn’t really take this for nothing,” the mother related.
But shortly after, one of her sons started to scream and upon checking, she heard her daughter screaming.
She was unable to see what was happening to the child, since all the doors and windows were locked. A relative managed to break a window to get the girl to safety.
“I told my baby, ‘walk and come to mommy’, and she come and we took her from the window,” the mother explained. The little girl was rushed to the hospital; she is said to be recovering.
After committing the act, Elliot reportedly ended her life.
Guyana Times reached out to one of the sons of the now dead woman, Ryan Jaisingh, who relayed what he heard transpired.
“My sister told me that my mom stabbed a child up. She said that she saw her locking the grill door, and then she had the knife in her hand, and then she started harming herself. She said that our mom drank poison,” Jaisingh explained.
Mohamed and Elliot were friends for some 23 years. Mohamed is still in shock over the incident.
“I don’t know if she is suffering from a mental health issue, but I never see her in that state,” she related.
Meanwhile, Regional Police Commander, Assistant Police Commissioner (Demerara-Mahaica) Royston Andries-Junor, confirmed that Elliot was suffering from a mental health issue. He explained that the investigations were ongoing, and upon completion, a file would be sent to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
He pointed out that not much would come out of the matter, given that the suspect is dead.