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Feb 25, 2016 News
Police have arrested an eight-month pregnant woman who reportedly admitted to strangling her seven-year- old son with a bed sheet on Sunday night.
The 28-year-old woman was arrested at her La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home Tuesday night after police received a tip off that the child was murdered.
The child, Emanuel King, was pronounced dead at the West Demerara Hospital on Monday after his mother belatedly took him there.
His mother, Sonia King, had initially told police and other relatives that the child fell and injured himself, but no one really bought her story.
Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed that the woman was arrested after she could no longer live with the guilt. She confided in her husband that she had strangled the child.
Her husband subsequently informed the police.
Kaieteur News was told that while the child reportedly died on Sunday night, it was not until the following morning that his mother took his body in a taxi to the West Demerara Hospital where he was officially pronounced dead.
But police will have to do additional investigations since there are reports that the child was beaten by other persons in the home the night before he died.
A relative of the dead child had told this newspaper on Monday night that they were suspicious from the time they heard the woman’s explanation of her son’s death.
The relative said that they had received a call around 09:30 hours on Monday telling them of the child’s death.
The relative said that they went to the woman’s house to confirm the news and they even accompanied her to the La Grange Police Station where she reported that the child fell off an abandoned 20 foot container.
But later on Monday, they were contacted by the woman’s neighbour, who told them that he had some information on the child’s death but was reluctant to give it over the telephone.
When they finally met with the neighbour they were told that another close male relative of the child, who lives at the house was seen beating him mercilessly on Sunday night.
The neighbour reportedly claimed that he had to call over to the child’s parents to tell them to stop the beating.
The relative said that they later reported to the police what they had heard. “They tell we they had to wait on the post mortem,” the relative stated.
Police had examined the body and found no marks of violence.
“But even if she did not confess, the post mortem would have shown the cause of death,” a source close to the investigation.
According to a source close to the investigation, the woman confessed that she had beaten the child on many occasions before, since “He was mischievous and own away”.
Police are preparing a file to send to the Director of Public Prosecutions before instituting a murder charge.
“She will definitely be charged with murder,” the source said.
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