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May 10, 2011 News
Yet another teenage suicide has been recorded. The latest victim was a 15-year-old fourth form student of the Tutorial High School.
Dead is Amrita Mangal of 28 Goedverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD). She succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Saturday morning at 09:20 am, less than 24-hours after ingesting an unidentified poisonous substance.
Reports are that on Friday, last, Amrita’s parents were called into the school to discuss an issue concerning their daughter, but unfortunately due to her mother being ill, Amrita’s father, Rohan Mangal visited the school to ascertain what problem had occurred at the Tutorial High School with his daughter’s involvement.
Kaieteur News understands that upon arriving at his daughter’s school, Rohan was told by the girl’s form teacher that Amrita was absent for the morning session and would frequently be absent in the mornings from classes.
The teacher said that Amrita would come to school usually around 10:00am (close to the break period).
Rohan told Kaieteur News that he was shocked at this revelation since he was never notified about his daughter skipping classes or arriving late at school.
Amrita was then summoned into an office where her father and the headmistress spent almost two hours talking with her about the issues at hand.
The father then took Amrita home and awakened his wife, Sylvie Cunje, to notify her about their daughter’s actions.
Rohan said, “I tell her to put her bag on the bench and go change she clothes so that I could call her in front of her mother to talk about she skipping school and such.
“Amrita went inside the house through one door and didn’t come out back”.
This publication was made to understand that Amrita appeared uneasy about leaving her school bag on the bench while she was inside of the house, however; by the time her mother had awakened and was ready to talk to her, Amrita was not there.
Rohan explained that he also summoned two of Amrita’s sisters to witness the discussions since they were all close and if Amrita had a problem which she felt she could not discuss with her parents, she would be able to turn to her sisters.
Sylvie Cunje, the girl’s mother, stated that she began to feel uneasy and felt “a pain” in her stomach when the small gathering heard “a moaning, groaning sound”.
She then told her family “something wrong with Amrita…I can’t move, something wrong, go find she.”
One of Amrita’s sisters ran through the side door of the house and began looking for Amrita while her father combed the yard. Moments later they saw the teenager “crimped up in pain” on the floor at the back of their yard next to a pen where they kept animals.
Rohan and one of his daughters immediately rushed Amrita to the GPHC for immediate medical attention. By this time she was in a critical condition.
Her distraught father, who is still trying to come to grips with the sudden loss of his “favourite daughter” said, “We were trying to hold Amrita down all the time because like the poison make she lurching and she body was rocking up and down.”
Sylvie explained that Amrita was the most fortunate of her children since she was the only one who “made it to a secondary school education”.
She said that Amrita’s father went out of his way to ensure that she was well provided for financially and materially to help her through secondary school.
Rohan recently purchased a computer system for Amrita.
He told this newspaper, “I does give Amrita money to go to school, she does get paid by me to help do work and sometimes she does even ask the mother or sister for money and get it, so it isn’t like she lacking anything. I work hard all my life and work for what? To make my children better off.
“All this preparation for a wake and funeral, I wish it was preparation for her wedding instead. It would have been better off if I had marry she off than have to cremate her”.
Some family members and friends are of the opinion that Amrita had a boyfriend whom they were unaware of. Her parents said that she never came to them and told them that she was involved in any relationship.
Her siblings explained that if she did, she was very good at keeping it a secret from them, since not once did she ever utter a word about a boyfriend.
Kaieteur News understands that the poisonous liquid which Amrita drank was secured in a ‘Thrill bottle’. The family has no idea what the substance is.
They are of the impression that maybe she had a boyfriend with whom she had encountered some problems and probably purchased or retrieved the substance between the few hours of her leaving for school that morning and arriving during the break time for classes.
One of the relatives stated, “It looks like she planned to do this before she got home here. She had time to get the substance in between the few hours. She knew what she wanted to do from before.
“Imagine she didn’t even have a hard life or problems at home. She would have been 16 years old next month.”
Rohan said that he was made aware that Amrita was absenting herself from school for almost two months straight and on the day she drank the poisonous substance, she was wearing casual clothing underneath her school uniform.
Also, there was a ‘gent’s sunglasses’ in her school bag, which Rohan stated, he never saw her wear.
He is appealing to parents to check on their children’s performance, attendance and activities at schools since they could also prevent their children from suffering the same fate which Amrita did.
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