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May 13, 2017 News
A New Amsterdam man who is accused of poisoning his three step-children ages two, four and nine, was yesterday morning arrested by ranks in Berbice.
Rafeek Rambarran is presently in custody assisting with investigations.
Reports are that Rambarran threw a poisonous substance into a soft drink and gave it to the minors.
The children have been identified as 9-year-old Anesha Leacock, 4-year-old Natalia Matheson and 2-year-old Atalia Leacock, all of Mai Mai Dam, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam.
According to reports, at around noon on Thursday, the children’s mother, 29 year-old Shabana Leacock, made a report at the Central Police Station, CID, that her boyfriend (Rambarran) had poisoned her three children.
The woman stated that she and Rambarran had a misunderstanding that fuelled a heated argument and as a result of the quarrel, she took her three children to their grandparents’ place of residence, the Amerindian Hostel in New Amsterdam.
She related that she placed her three children in the care of her mother and left. However, a short while after Rambarran visited the hostel and gave the three minors a bottle of “Icee drink” which they shared among themselves, while he talked with them as normal.
It was minutes later that their grandmother noticed something was wrong when the children began frothing. She immediately alerted the other occupants of the hostel and arrangements were made to transport the children to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital.
A medical examination carried out by the doctors at the hospital confirmed that the minors had indeed ingested a poisonous substance. They were treated and later admitted for observation. They are still hospitalized at the medical institution.
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