A seven-month-old baby reportedly suffocated and died at a private day care at Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Tuesday.
The now dead baby
While information about what took place remains sketchy, Guyana Times understands that the child reportedly fell off a bed and was caught in the sheets.
The child has been identified as Oriya Gravesande. The distraught parents explained that they received a telephone call informing them that their daughter had fallen off a bed and she was not responding.
“They called me and tell me that our baby was unresponsive when they took her to the health centre, and by the time they reached the Georgetown Hospital, she was pronounced dead… she left home good, smiling and everything…,” the father stated.
The devastated mother added that she was contacted two hours after the incident and by the time she arrived at the hospital, she was told that her baby was dead.
“They murder my child… they say she fall off the bed and wrap up in the sheet and she suffocate,” the mother cried.
Both the mother and the father work. An investigation has been launched.
