Toddler’s body found floating in trench near ECD home

An Anns Grove, East Coast Demerara (ECD) family that was franticly looking for a toddler who had disappeared on Saturday morning, received the shock of their lives when the child’s lifeless body was found floating in a trench in the area.
Four-year-old Shane Samuels of Lot 30 Two Friends Village, Anns Grove, ECD, was found on Saturday evening between 20:00h and 22:00h.
Reports are that the child was left in the care of an aunt while his mother – 38-year-old Donell Adams, a vendor in Georgetown – went to work on Saturday.
According to the Police, Adams had called her sister to check on her child and was told he was playing in the yard. However, during a second call later that day, the mother was informed that the boy was missing.
A while later, the mother was informed by a friend that Shane’s bicycle was found close to a nearby trench. This led relatives to search the area and the child’s uncle subsequently found and removed his lifeless body from the trench.
Police on Sunday said that by the time Adams reached home, her son’s motionless body was on the ground next to the Two Friends trench.
The body is currently lying at Jerrick’s Funeral Home awaiting a post-mortem examination.

Meanwhile, a relative of the dead child told Guyana Times that the news of the child’s death came as a shock to the entire family. She said even though the child went missing, they were not expecting that he would turn up dead.
“This is very sad, and it is any mother’s biggest fear,” the relative said.
According to the relative, the child was indeed staying in the care of his aunt, however, he did not leave the house unknowing to his family.
The relative said that his aunt sent him to collect something from his mother’s house, which is not too far away, and he left but never return.
“He was apparently going over a fine bridge with he bicycle and is fall in he fall in. After he didn’t come back, they went and look for him and they decide to look at the bridge and they see he bicycle, then they look a little more and they find he slippers and late last night [Saturday] they find him.”
The relative related that the child was living with his father, but recently he moved back with his mother. According to the relative, in 2021 the dead child’s cousin lost his life by drowning.
Police have since launched a probe into the issue. (G9)