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Baby placed into foster care

Jun 29, 2011 News

– mother reportedly in interior searching for child’s father

A six-week-old baby girl who was left abandoned, along with her six-year-old brother and three-year-old sister, by their mother in a shack at Timehri almost a month ago, has been placed into foster care.
Head of the Child Protection Agency of the Ministry of Human Services, Ann Greene, disclosed that the baby has been responding well to all the care that is being administered, since the children were rescued. She said that although the agency did not want to separate the children, the decision to place the baby into foster care was done in the best interest of the child.
Following their rescue by police ranks at the Timehri Police Station who were notified about their plight by concerned residents, the children were temporarily housed at the Guyana Red Cross, while the Child Protection Agency sought foster parents, at least for the baby.
“The baby is too small to remain in an environment like that,” Greene had told this newspaper.
But the separation is taking its toll on the baby’s six-year-old brother, who had been trying his best to care for his younger siblings when they were abandoned by their mother.
“We did not want to separate them. The little boy took it seriously, but we are working with him,” the Head of the Child Protection Agency told Kaieteur News.
According to Greene, the Agency is still trying to find foster parents for the two remaining children.
This is in light of new information that has surfaced about their mother.
This newspaper was told that the woman might have gone into the interior in search of one of the children’s father.
There is another report that she had stolen some money from the elderly man in whose shack she had left the children and fled into the interior.
Greene said that officers from her agency are still checking with residents of the Timehri area for further word on the whereabouts of the children’s mother. She said that placing the children into foster care is in no way the end of the Agency’s role in looking into their well-being.
“This is not adoption, we are still looking for their mother,” she said.
On Saturday June 4, the children’s mother had left them in the care of a 66-year-old physically challenged male foster relative, while she reportedly went to purchase snacks at a shop. However, the woman has not been seen
since. Kaieteur News understands that it was the elderly relative who contacted the police at Timehri, since he was unable to care for the children, especially the six-week-old.
The eldest of the children had claimed that neighbours had been providing them with meals, but they had to sleep alone at nights.
The following Monday, neighbours, realising that the woman had not been seen for two days, moved into the shack where she lived, only to find the children living in squalor.
They said that the six-year-old was doing his best to care for his two younger sisters.
Greene had pointed out that the even if the children’s mother showed up soon, she would not be able to collect her children immediately.
“We just can’t hand them back to the mother just like that. She just can’t show up this afternoon and say she wants her children back.”
Greene stated that the child protection agency will work with the mother if she shows up to see “if we could get to the point where they (children) can go back with her.”

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