THE police are investigating the circumstances under which a 29-year-old mother of three children attempted to commit suicide after feeding her three children a toxic substance at their Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) residence on Friday.
The food vendor and her children are being monitored at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where the mother’s mental stability is also being reviewed. Police said the Child Care and Protection Agency will also be reviewing the matter.
The children ages seven, five and three are listed as stable.

Reports indicate that the woman, who had a verbal spat with her partner about his infidelity, grew out of control after loud sounds could be heard coming from the house as if someone was “smashing something.”
One neighbour said that the woman after having a conversation with her husband on the cellphone went berserk and began destroying the television, stove, table and other items that were thrown outside the house and into the yard. “She even run by her cousin house where her husband park a minibus and smash up the windows.”

Reports indicate that relatives and residents from the area went to their home and found the mother and children in an unconscious state. They were rushed to the hospital.
Police said efforts made to contact her 30 year-old husband prove futile, because he was said to be in the interior. A medical source disclosed that when the mother was asked why she gave the children poison, she said that she was “distressed.”
A similar case had occurred in 2014, when a 21- year -old Mahaicony mother poisoned her two children and then attempted to take her own life. She was subsequently charged and placed before the court.

The woman killed her two children by poisoning on March 27, 2014. The mother, Awena Rutherford, also consumed the deadly substance, but survived following treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital. The incident reportedly stemmed from a dispute that the woman had with her husband, who was residing overseas.