Child sets Mahaicony home on fire while playing with matches

A six-year-old child on Thursday set his mother’s Lot 12 Calcutta, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara home on fire, thus leaving the family of three homeless.
The child’s 33-year-old mother, Odessa Limerick, told Police that she lived in a two-storey wooden and concrete building with her reputed husband and her son.
The woman recalled leaving home for work on Thursday at about 06:00h, leaving her son in the care of her reputed husband. However, at about 09:30h, she received a telephone call from an aunt who informed her that the house was on fire.
As a result, Limerick left her place of employment and went to her house where she found it completely engulfed in flames. Sometime later, the Mahaica Fire Station was summoned to the scene and they were able to extinguish the fire.
Reports are that the child was questioned in the presence of his mother during which he related that he went over to his aunt’s house and picked up a box of matches which he took home and lit the mattress which was in the back bedroom in the upper flat of the building.
Investigations are continuing.