A post mortem is to be done today, on the body of two-year-old Radian Wilson, the toddler who perished in a motor car at West Coast Berbice on Monday, after being accidentally left in the locked vehicle for more than two hours.
The child, who lived at El Dorado Village, also on the West Coast  Berbice, was entrusted into the care of a Public Health Officer, (a former head mistress)  by his mother, Mrs. Corletta Wilson, who asked her to drop him off at the “Little Treasure Play School’ at Golden Fleece, on her way to work at Fort Wellington.
Mrs. Wilson who teaches at another school at Belladrum, explained that she has a system in place for her son to be taken to school daily, but resorted to requesting the woman to take him on Monday, since her driver would have been unavailable on that day.
Together the mother and child joined the car driven by the health worker, and on dropping off at her school at Belladrum, Wilson repeated her request to the woman, to ‘please remember’ to drop her child off at his play school.  She bade his goodbye and the car drove off.
But the woman apparently forgot about the child in the back seat of the car and passed his school.  Even on arriving at her workplace, she still did not remember him, and so secured her vehicle and went into the building without noticing him in the bask seat.
It was not until around 10:00 hrs that Wilson, after making enquiries,  learnt that the child got was not dropped off at school.  An intense search was mounted by teachers at the school.  The distraught mother acted on the information and  sought the woman out, only to learn that her infant child was locked in the back seat of the unventilated  AE 212 car, and had died.
And at the home of the Wilsons yesterday, as the reality of the loss of her child really began to ‘sink in’,  Mrs. Carletta Wilson became inconsolable, and after several hours of continuous weeping, her state of health was seriously threatened.  Relatives were forced to seek medical help for her.  They added that her husband, who works in St. Maarten, is expected home at any time.
Police were yesterday intensifying their investigations, and will decide on a course of action after the results of the post mortem would have been released.