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FORGIVE ME
Story Updated: May 14, 2014
HAPPIER TIMES: Baby Jaedon Cudjoe is held
by his mother Masika, while daughter Ainka
sits on the shoulders of her father Sergus
Cudjoe in a photo from the family album.
NO one may fully know what was going
through the mind of Jerricho Cudjoe for him
to forget his 17-month-old grandson
strapped into the back seat of a car for
almost nine hours on Tuesday. But what little
Jaedon Cudjoe’s family would never forget
was the bond of love that Cudjoe shared
with the infant boy. Whether Cudjoe will ever
recover from the child’s death, is uncertain,
they said. Jaedon was found dead inside the
car by his grandfather when he returned to
the parking lot of his workplace at Petrotrin’s
Clarke Road, Penal, facility around 4.30 p.m.
on Tuesday. When Cudjoe, 56, realised the
child was in the vehicle and not responding,
he let out a howl and could not stop
screaming, the Express was told by a co-
worker. And when Cudjoe’s son (Jaedon’s
father, Sergus Cudjoe) arrived at the scene,
the grandfather prostrated himself before
him and begged for forgiveness. An autopsy
performed by pathologist Dr Valery
Alexandrov yesterday found the child
suffered for hours before dying. Alexandrov
said the 17-month-old boy eventually died
from hyperthermia due to extreme heat. The
temperature was expected to reach a high of
34 degrees Celsius on Tuesday but, according
to Alexandrov, the temperature inside the
car would have increased to 55 degrees
Celsius at its peak. Alexandrov said the high
temperature would have caused Jaedon to
sweat profusely before losing consciousness,
and the child may have suffered seizures,
intense headaches and vomiting. Alexandrov
said the child’s muscles were paralysed and
his body’s pH balance was thrown off. He
said Jaedon’s organs failed as he suffocated.
The infant was severely dehydrated, he said.
Jaedon’s uncle, Andell Cudjoe, told the
Express the grandfather was supposed to
drop his only grandson off at the baby-sitter
on Tuesday. Relatives were unsure what
happened after the two left the family’s
home at Aquat Village, Quinam Road, Penal,
that would have caused Cudjoe to forget the
baby in the back seat since it was his daily
routine. Andell Cudjoe said, “He left to go to
work, as he did every morning. He would
usually drop off Jaedon by his aunt every day
before going to work. I can’t say what
happened. I don’t know if he was just
absent-minded that day. I can’t say. We
really don’t know what happened.” Police
said Cudjoe, who was promoted to electrical
supervisor the day before the tragedy,
received a call from his co-workers on
Tuesday morning informing him he was
needed urgently at his workplace. Cudjoe
told police he forgot the child was inside the
car when he got out of the vehicle, put up
the windows and locked the doors before
walking away to his workplace around 7.30
a.m. He returned to the car after 4 p.m. and
found the child slumped over. Cudjoe’s co-
workers said his screams alerted the nearby
Petrotrin Estate officers, who contacted the
police and the baby’s parents, Sergus and
Masika Cudjoe. A co-worker said the
grandfather was so inconsolable that he
dropped to the ground, holding on to the
feet of the child’s father and begged for
forgiveness. The scene was so horrific that
police detectives cried when they saw the
tortured look on the child’s face. Andell
Cudjoe said the child’s parents were
distraught. The couple have a six-year-old
daughter—Ainka. Cudjoe said Jaedon was the
life of the family. “He was his grandfather’s
eyeball. He bought a jeep for Jaedon before
he could even walk. He was spoilt rotten. On
Sunday, we had a barbecue for Mother’s Day
and Jaedon was walking, climbing and
running like any other happy child. “His
grandfather cared for him while his parents
were at work and he would take Jaedon for
drives to the savannah,” he said. Jaedon’s
father is employed as a linesman at Trinidad
and Tobago Electricity Commission, while his
mother works as a jeweller. Andell Cudjoe
said a prayer service was held at the family’s
house in memory of little Jaedon on Tuesday
night. Police have impounded the black
Nissan Teana car in which the child’s body
was found. Cudjoe is assisting the police with
their investigation.
rollingstock wrote:It may be so, but the law is clear wrt the offence.
Plus I can't see anyone walking away free without any kind punishment for an act of such gross negligence, despite what level of remorse they may feel.
rollingstock wrote:It may be so, but the law is clear wrt the offence.
Plus I can't see anyone walking away free without any kind punishment for an act of such gross negligence, despite what level of remorse they may feel.
and if he started early ie his first daughter or son was at 22. Does that still make him an early grand father?S_2NR wrote:he is a young grandpa though.
willing to bet teenage pregnancy somewhere along the line.
would explain the negligence on the parents part
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