A three-year-old boy was admitted a patient at the Fort Wellington Hospital on Saturday after he was brutally beaten by a relative and later reportedly abandoned at the home of an aunt at Blairmont, West Bank Berbice.
Charran will be four years old on February 16. Stabroek News was told that the relative had beaten him about his head and body with a stick because he did not want to “rock de baby.”
He was rushed to the hospital after his aunt Sunita Sahadeo returned home from the market and found him outside her closed doors. He was sitting on top of a plastic bag containing his clothing, birth certificate and clinic card.
However other reports indicated that the child was at the aunt’s house when he was abused. The relative also reportedly threw pepper sauce in the child’s eyes.
When Stabroek News visited the child at the hospital yesterday his face and head were swollen and he could not open his eyes. There were other marks about his body from beatings he endured at the hands of the relative.
Regional Chairman of Region Five, Harrinarine Baldeo told SN that he visited the child at the hospital after hearing about the incident and “what I saw was shocking. I could not believe that anyone can do that to a child.”
The chairman pointed that, “It is cruel, inhumane and heartless and I hope that the necessary police action would be taken and that whoever did that would be brought to justice.”
Regional councillor, Carol Joseph who was outraged after seeing the child lamented yesterday “how could they do that to a child to rock a baby when he needs to be rocked himself…”
