School welfare officers in Berbice on Thursday morning discovered three young girls, aged four, seven and ten years old, sleeping on the seawall along the East Bank Berbice and their mother has since been arrested.
According to reports, the welfare officers had received information that the children were sleeping there and went to investigate. After the girls were questioned, they explained that their stepfather had ordered them out of the house.
They were taken to the New Amsterdam Hospital where medical examinations revealed
