Pregnant 16-year-old beaten, kicked by relative

Christanta Fordyce

Doctors are monitoring a 16-year-old pregnant girl who was released from hospital on Friday last after a relative assaulted her and broke her jaw.

Christanta Fordyce was “ill-treated” according to relatives and left in the middle of the road after she was beaten. She can barely speak because of the jaw injury, which doctors said will heal in another 45 days, and while the baby’s heart is beating doctors are insisting on another check-up in three days.

Jacqueline Fordyce, her mother, was fighting to control emotions of anger and sorrow when she spoke with Stabroek News yesterday. The woman said