Mother to be charged for attempting to kill children
The Child Care Protection Agency (CPA) is moving to have the Bare Root, East Coast Demerara (ECD) woman, who fed her children a poisonous substance and attempted to kill herself, charged.
CPA Director Ann Greene told Guyana Times that the matter is still being investigated, however, the Police are also looking to have the 26-year-old mother
Some of the household items the 26-year-old threw out of the house
of three charged.
When contacted, Public Relation’s Officer (PRO) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), Mitzy Campbell said that the children and mother are all in a stable condition.
On Friday last, Vanessa Arthur mixed a snack with poisonous substance and fed it her children. She later ingested the poisonous substance.
This newspaper was told that a relative visited the woman’s Bare Root, ECD home and realised that something was amiss after he saw a number of household items broken and thrown out in the yard. Subsequently, the relative reported that he noticed the three children vomiting.
The relative subsequently questioned the children’s mother, who then allegedly revealed what she had done.
As such, an alarm was raised and the children, as well as their mother, were rushed to the hospital and immediately admitted.
Officials at the hospital reported that they were initially told that the children started vomiting for no particular reason.
However, a hospital representative related that she noticed froth coming out of the children’s mouth and informed a Police officer who was in the hospital. It was then that doctors realised that the children were poisoned and immediately rushed them to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Shortly afterwards, the mother of the children arrived with another set of relatives and was also vomiting.
Meanwhile, on the woman’s social media page – Facebook – in a status dated February 9, 2017, she posted about being disheartened about her husband’s extramarital affair. Investigators are working on the theory that this might have been the basis on which the woman committed the act.
