Family receiving counselling for post-traumatic stress after fatal Pollydore St fire

Shania Marshall

The Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) is providing counselling for post-traumatic stress disorder to Odessa Thomas’s family, following the fire last month that claimed the lives of her two youngest children.

Director of the CC&PA Ann Greene told Stabroek News that Thomas’s remaining two children now reside permanently with their grandmother in Buxton. She noted that Thomas was also living in the same residence but she said the children’s grandmother was the primary caregiver.

Greene noted that Thomas, 36, was grieving and was going through the stages of grief at this time and that