5-year-old stabbed by mom’s friend still hospitalised

Five-year-old girl Mureena Brock of La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara (ECD), who was stabbed to the back, shoulder and stomach by her mother’s friend, who later committed suicide, is still hospitalised.
Regional Commander Royston Andries Junor told Guyana Times that the child is still hospitalised and is “slowly progressing”.

Brock’s mother, Bibi Mohammed, told reporters that last Friday she was at the home of her friend, 40-year-old Veronica Elliot, of Atlantic Gardens, ECD, and was sitting in the yard when Elliot began to close the door with a padlock. The child was in the house at the time.
A few minutes later, Mohammed said she heard her friend’s son and her daughter screaming. She was unable to see what was happening to the child, since all the doors and windows were locked.
However, a relative managed to break a window and they entered the building to take the child to safety. After committing the act, Elliot reportedly drank a poisonous substance and later died.
The two women were friends for some 23 years, and Mohammed is still in shock over the incident.
Meanwhile, the Regional Commander in a subsequent interview with this publication confirmed that Elliot was suffering from a mental health issue. (G9)