Teen mother ingests, feeds baby poisonous substance

A teen mother of Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) reportedly fed her baby a poisonous substance after which she ingested same. Due to the matter being a sensitive one, the identity of the mother was not released to the media.
However, Police stated that both the mother and baby were taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH) after they were found vomiting. They were immediately treated and are currently under observation at the medical facility.
An investigation has been launched into the incident.
Only a month ago, twenty-year-old Temecia Sampson of Phase 1B, Wisroc Squatting Area, had fed her eight-year-old daughter and six-month-old son a poisonous substance before ingesting same.
Sampson and her children were rushed to the hospital after consuming the poisonous substance.
The three were immediately admitted with the mother’s condition being listed as critical. It was reported that the woman showed no sign of improvement and never regained consciousness.
She and her six-month-old son subsequently died after being hospitalised for a few days. Her eight-year-old daughter survived the dilemma.
In April 2018, 25-year-old Hofoswana Awena Rutherford killed her two children by feeding them with carbon tablets. The woman was subsequently sentenced by Justice Navindra Singh to 98 years’ imprisonment on two counts of manslaughter.
On the first count, the killing of four-year-old Hodascia Cadogan, Rutherford was sentenced to 45 years’ jail; while on the second count, the killing of one-year-old Jabari Cadogan, she was ordered to serve 53 years’ jail time.
Rutherford had collapsed on the floor when the 12-member jury unanimously found her guilty on both counts on March 15, 2018.
The jury believed the State’s evidence that the mother had given each of her children half of a tablet of aluminium phosphide (rat poison) on March 27, 2014, at Supply Branch Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara.