TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD Brenda Ferreira is expected to make her appearance before Magistrate Peter Hugh at the Cove and John Magistrate’s Court today (August 29) for the murder of her three-year-old son.

The charge against Ferreira alleges that on August 25, 2018 at Foulis, East Coast Demerara, she murdered her son, Ramdeo Ferreira.
The mother of two was arrested last Saturday, after the police accused her of stabbing her three-year-old son to death and placing his lifeless body on the family bed at their Foulis, East Coast Demerara home.

The housewife, who was reportedly armed with a knife, was seen chasing her son around the yard before stabbing him about the body.
Neighbours had told the Guyana Chronicle, that the woman was heard saying before being taken away by the police, that she had a dream that she was going to die and wanted her favourite child with her in the afterlife.

Her six-year-old son who witnessed the stabbing, reportedly started screaming and ran out of the yard to inform his father’s sister who lived nearby. The father was said to be at work at a lumber yard when news of his son’s demise reached him.

The police found the child lying unconscious on the bed where his mother had placed him. He was immediately taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital, but died while receiving treatment.

In an interview with this publication, many neighbours described the assailant as someone who showed very little interest in her children. One mother in the area said the couple has been living in the neighbourhood for several years, and that the mother was never a good example for her children.

“The father is a good man,” the woman said. “He is respected because he tries. He lost his job at GuySuCo and it was hard for them, but he later got a work at the lumber yard.
“The Child Care and Protection Agency had visited them before and I don’t know what was done, but the agency seemed to know something was wrong.”

Another neighbour said that the police were summoned to the home the night before the incident, after the woman was seen beating up on the house and fence with pots and pans.