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Dec 24, 2013 News
Instead of engaging in the festivities of the Christmas holiday, a West Ruimveldt couple is making funeral arrangements for their only child.
Renita Erskine, called “Buckie”, 15, passed away yesterday morning around 9:00 hours at the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, after she purportedly choked on a piece of bread soaked in pepperpot, which she had for breakfast.
The child’s father, Geoffrey Erskine, said that his daughter suffered from Down Syndrome but that she was in the best of health before the incident.
“I can’t understand what happened. This morning I asked Buckie what she wanted for breakfast and she said she want pepperpot and bread …I mek sure I didn’t give her any bone in the pepperpot,” the grieving father said.
“I went downstairs to put on my clothes for work, when I heard like she choking. I run upstairs back and I try hitting her on her back she start to fight up because she de choking so I send to call a nurse. The nurse told me that I need to take her to the hospital.”
At the hospital, Erskine said he learnt of his daughter’s demise.
“When we reach in the car she started breathing hard then I see blood start running through she mouth and she nose… like I don’t understand what happened. When we reach the hospital I thought she was getting admitted but the doctor tell me that she dead,” the man related in a visible state of shock.
The body was subsequently taken to Sandy’s Funeral Parlour.
“I feel like is the fright that she get while she choking cause her to burst an artery or suffer a sudden heart attack or something, because besides that she was healthy as ever.”
Erskine described his daughter as pleasant child and the light of the home.
A post most examination will be performed on the body on Friday, December 27.
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