The death of a 4 month old baby is under investigation by the Guyana Police Force. The child has been identified as Kaylee Atkinson of Annandale, Essequibo Coast.
The Police in a press statement said the mother related to them that when she awoke to breastfeed Kaylee last Sunday morning, she saw her husband’s right foot on the baby’s chest and belly. It was said that a whitest substance was coming out of her mouth also, as she lay motionless.
The 17-year-old mother said she woke her sleeping husband and together they rushed four month old Kaylee to the Suddie Public Hospital, where she was examined by a doctor and pronounced dead on arrival.
The woman told the police that is normal for her 18-year-old husband consume alcohol and return home intoxicated.
The teenage mother explained that her husband returned home on March 13, intoxicated at approximately 20:10hrs. The young mother said her husband went into the kitchen where he fell asleep on the floor. Sometime after, and her two children 4 months Kaylee and a 23-month-old retired to bed. Her husband joined them later.
The teenage couple and their young children lived in the lower flat of a two storied wooden and concrete building.