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Apr 06, 2013 News
The police have managed to locate the infant, who was accidentally kicked in the head by her father and sustained a fractured skull.
Three-week-old Shamier Yankana has since been admitted to the nursery at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) since Thursday night. She is being monitored by doctors.
According to information received, the baby’s father and her mother were fighting during which the baby was kicked by her father on Tuesday night at their Quamina Street home.
It was only on Wednesday, the child was taken to the hospital where it was revealed via a CT-Scan that she sustained a fractured skull and there was bleeding in and around the brain. But by the time doctors were ready to treat the child, the mother had reportedly disappeared with her.
However, a social worker accompanied by three police managed to locate the infant and her mother Thursday evening.
At the hospital yesterday, the mother, Simone Yankana, told Kaieteur News that she did not escape from the hospital.
“They had me waiting long, long. It was almost 02:00am Thursday and I was there since 07:00pm Wednesday night and they had me waiting. I was hungry and the child mess up her skin so I left the hospital and go home,” the woman said.
When asked about the incident, she related, “He (the child’s father) find out that I does talk with my other children father and he get vex and start beat me. I was sitting on the bed with the baby in my hand and he was going to kick me but he miss and kick the baby.”
According to the mother of six, she did not realize that the infant had been hurt until the following day (Wednesday) when she saw a lump on the baby’s forehead, “I did not know that the baby was hurt, because she did not cry or anything.”
The woman further told Kaieteur News that the reason why her partner had lied to the reporter earlier was because he thought that it was a social worker.
Kaieteur News was told by the mother of the child that the doctors at the hospital told her that surgery has to be done on her baby.
There has been no word yet on what fate will befall the errant father
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