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Sascha Wilson
Senior Reporter
sascha.wilson@guardian.co.tt
When Laura Jeremiah heard that her five-year-old grandson got into difficulties in a pool at a water park, she fell to her knees and prayed that he would survive.
Unfortunately, little D’amari Jeffery later died at the San Fernando General Hospital while receiving treatment.
D’amari had gone with his mother Anika George, his nine-year-old brother and other relatives to the Fun Splash Water Park in Debe on Sunday to celebrate his cousin’s second birthday. There were pool attendants on duty but relatives are still questioning why no lifeguards are employed at the water park, since they believe had this been the case, little D’amari could have been saved.
At the child’s home at Basta Hill, La Brea, yesterday, D’amari’s grandmother Laura Jeremiah and great grandmother, 73-year-old Monica Jeremiah, were overcome with grief. D’amari’s mother Anika George was also too distraught to speak with reporters. He was the last of her four children; her eldest is 16 years old.
Still in disbelief over her grandson’s death, Jeremiah said the children were in the pool but they were being monitored by adults. She was at another section of the facility when she saw a commotion around 4 pm and heard her daughter bawling.
“When I walk I just hear my daughter bawling. By the time she start to bawl I realise something was wrong. I start to bawl also and when I peep, I see a crowd around and when I watch I see my lil grandson. I just left and went in some mud and I just start to pray. I pray. I pray.”
The grandmother said several strangers went to her grandson’s assistance and performed CPR. When her grandson left in the ambulance, she said he was breathing.
Jeremiah said could not say who exactly was with D’amari in the pool, but she said there were adults in the pool.
“It had a set of big people there with him. It had parents, mothers with their children, everybody was there with him. I cannot actually say because there was more than one person was there. I don’t know if he slipped away because is a pool. Is boys...,” she said.
The grandmother, however, was disappointed that there were no lifeguards on duty.
“They need lifeguards there. I feel like when things like that happen, I feel they should even have an ambulance standing by on those occasions because is kids, anything could happen and they need proper lifeguards there because at the split moment, sometimes parents could just turn their face. I mean anything do happen.”
George’s best friend, Terissa Waldron, also defended her (George) in the face of harsh and insensitive statements from people about the incident on social media.
“She is a very hardworking woman and she goes all out for her children. Things happen, it already happen. She is not that monster that they portraying her to be on social media,” Waldron said.
Jeremiah added that she was not blaming anyone for what happened.
“God giveth and God taketh. God alone knows what is the reason. Sometimes we sit there and we judge and we judge and we say things that we not supposed to say, God Almighty alone know the reason.”
She said D’amari had just started at La Brea RC School and was full of love.
Lending support to the family, Brighton/Vessigny councillor Jillon Lewis was also disappointed that there were no lifeguards on duty.
“As a location that usually keeps these kind of events and have slides, it is your responsibility to have your staff on hand and be alert for any mishaps or misfortune that may happen.”
When Guardian Media visited the facility yesterday, it was open for business. Pool attendants were patrolling and there were signs indicating that children must be supervised and that no lifeguards were on duty.
When Guardian Media reached out to the owner Vijai Ramai, he said the pool attendants have basic training but that they had no lifeguards at the park
He said it was a tragic time for the family and he will be reaching out to them very soon to assist them in any way possible.
“We will try our best to stay as long as we could stay once we are allowed in the grief cycle of the parents,” he said.
alfa wrote:Where the lifeguards they supposed to have?
God's workbluefete wrote:alfa wrote:Where the lifeguards they supposed to have?
There are NO lifeguards. The signs at the waterpark clearly state that. Swim at your own risk.
Adults should have been more alert with their children. RIP little one.
Five-year-old dies after falling into boiling pot of peas
Sascha Wilson
Five days after suffering severe burns after falling into a pot of boiling lentil peas, a five-year-old girl has died.
Shazade Simon suffered second degree burns to 25 percent of her body, and succumbed on Monday at the San Fernando Teaching Hospital.
The child's mother took her to her grandfather's stall at Morne Roache Road, Williamsville, around 4:15pm last Wednesday.
He was at the time boiling a pot of lentil peas over a fire cracker on the ground at the back of the shed. Shazade's aunt Marissa Brizan said the child stumbled and fell into the pot. She was immediately taken out, wrapped in a damp towel and rushed to the hospital.
Police said she suffered burns to her stomach and buttock area.
Brizan said the child seemed to be doing well and they believed she would have been discharged soon.
Sadly, around 1.30 pm on Monday she passed away at the hospital.
Disputing social media reports, she said it was not a case of negligence but a tragic accident.
Shazade was an only child and was a student at Mayo Early Childhood Care and Education Centre.
Gasparillo police are investigating.
redmanjp wrote:i feel anybody who have children give dem a bush bath- from the massacre of children last thursday, to this drowning and now a next child fall in ah pot and dead?
is like d angel of death passing
redmanjp wrote:but the girl who got the burns was up and talking good good in hospital according to a vid i see.
redmanjp wrote:but the girl who got the burns was up and talking good good in hospital according to a vid i see.
bluefete wrote:redmanjp wrote:but the girl who got the burns was up and talking good good in hospital according to a vid i see.
It seems as if she knew her time was near. Maybe, the other world had already opened up and she was saying good-bye.
paid_influencer wrote:bluefete wrote:redmanjp wrote:but the girl who got the burns was up and talking good good in hospital according to a vid i see.
It seems as if she knew her time was near. Maybe, the other world had already opened up and she was saying good-bye.
i doh want to seem disrespectful, so I not addressing this to the child or the parents. my experience is that children often repeat what they hear adults saying. at some point a child might have heard an adult say "allyuh have to stay. don't cry" (directed toward her or other children) and the child repeated those words. maybe she heard those words (people telling her to stay and not cry). particularly school age children or daycare children sometimes hear things like that-- I knoiw children bawling down the place when getting drop off to pre-school (age 2-3).
that maybe sound more likely than sai baba talking to the child and telling she to say that
redmanjp wrote:So a dead newborn was found in some garbage and a next baby burnt to death in a fire today!
How much child deaths that is in the past 2 weeks including the Peterkin deaths? Somebody do a Obeah or something?
redmanjp wrote:So a dead newborn was found in some garbage and a next baby burnt to death in a fire today!
How much child deaths that is in the past 2 weeks including the Peterkin deaths? Somebody do a Obeah or something?
redmanjp wrote:So a dead newborn was found in some garbage and a next baby burnt to death in a fire today!
How much child deaths that is in the past 2 weeks including the Peterkin deaths? Somebody do a Obeah or something?
Les Bain wrote:Obeah and Harry Potter magic implies that you're dealing with a hunky dory population of textbook 'good' people.
Don't underestimate or discount the fact that some really awful, ignorant and uneducated people are quite fertile, pop kids out with astonishing frequency then leave the same kids to fend for themselves then either get indoctrinated by weirdos or molested by sickos.
redmanjp wrote:Les Bain wrote:Obeah and Harry Potter magic implies that you're dealing with a hunky dory population of textbook 'good' people.
Don't underestimate or discount the fact that some really awful, ignorant and uneducated people are quite fertile, pop kids out with astonishing frequency then leave the same kids to fend for themselves then either get indoctrinated by weirdos or molested by sickos.
yeah but is't a lot of incidents for a measly 2 weeks and not everything can be attributed to delinquent parents- is the mass murders, 13 yr old murder, and there was also a suicide.
Phone Surgeon wrote:if yuh believe is obeah.....wha i guh say....charge up yuh healing crystals and solve it
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