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Aug 24, 2010 News
Twelve-year-old Michael Cadogan called ‘Scorchy’, of 223 Fort Ordnance Housing Scheme and a student of Canje Secondary School, succumbed minutes after he was pulled from a trench in an unconscious state yesterday.
Cadogan was found in the canal aback of Fort Ordnance, not far from his home, and was rushed to the New Amsterdam Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The lad was the eldest child and the only boy for his parents Charles and Theresa Cadogan. His father is a cane cutter and the Assistant Field Secretary of the Guysuco Rose Hall Estate.
Recounting what took place, the father said that he returned home from work at around 14:30 hrs and was reading the newspapers when a cousin came running and shouted that Michael was frothing near the koker.
The boy’s father immediately abandoned what he was doing and raced to the scene about 400 metres away. By the time he reached the location, other relatives, who live nearby had already rushed the boy to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
Charles Cadogan immediately swam the trench and took a short cut through the swamp, caught a taxi and headed to the hospital. Unfortunately, by the time he reached the facility his son had already been pronounced dead.
The father and other family members expressed frustration with the Regional Administration and the hospital staffers for different reasons. Speaking to this newspaper they said that the trench was recently redug to drain the Fort Ordnance area which was severely and still is flooded. They said that a koker was recently built and already the door is not closing properly, the wood has swollen and is preventing this, resulting in a heavy pull of the water below the surface close to the door. The father said that his son was found under the door.
As soon as he plunged overboard the heavy current pulled him to the door. “If the door was closed nothing like that would have happened,” one relative opined. Mr. Cadogan claims that only last week the regional chairman visited the area and told them that the work was substandard and the contractor would have to make some adjustments.
“The Regional chairman spoke in front of everybody that the work was substandard and the contractor will have to rectify the faults. But my son is now dead, due to their negligence; there is no warning sign, nothing. He should not have gone to swim, but they did substandard work and despite concerns raised by residents and the chairman’s pronunciation nothing was done. We would like a full investigation into this matter. How can people be paid to do substandard work? “
Meanwhile, one female relative who said she was the boy’s aunt, claimed that at the hospital there were no porters around and when the doctor arrived “he took his own sweet time”. “By the time they were ready to tend to him he was already dead. My nephew was alive when he reached the hospital and by the time all the twist and turn he was dead’,” the woman lamented.
Apart from his parents, Michael leaves to mourn three sisters – Jonelle, Naomi and Toschana.
They police have taken statements and are investigating.
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