POLICE are investigating the circumstances under which a teenager died Sunday while on a family outing at a resort at Bushy Park, Parika, East Bank Essequibo (EBE).Dead is 14-year-old Charles Anthony Pross of Lot 676 La Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara (WBD), who was pronounced dead at the Leonora Cottage Hospital. A post- mortem examination will be done today to determine the cause of death.
Meanwhile, the lad’s mother, Shellon Henry, is alleging that her son was given a small fish by a strange man at Bushy Park who she suspected was responsible for her son being submerged in the water at the beach.
“While I walking, my son come to me and show me a red and black fish and tell me that the man (who works at the resort) give it to him,” Henry said.
The woman said after she scolded her son about taking things from strangers she had planned to return with him to the stranger who gave him the fish. However, before doing so, she visited the washroom and upon returning outside, she learned that her brother, who was celebrating his 39th birthday with the family, had sent the teen to return the fish to the stranger.
While going in search of her son, Henry said the stranger who had given her son the fish told her that the teen went into the water and the tide had pulled him out.
An alarm was raised, and the lad’s uncle then started swimming in search of the teen, whose raised hand was seen and he was pulled out of the water. His eyes were twitching as he was being transported to the hospital, the newspaper was told.
Henry said that she performed CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) on her son continuously until he reached to the hospital.
Another sad twist in this unfortunate incident is that Henry is also claiming that her teenage son was left on the Leonora Cottage Hospital floor to die.
The devastated mother said that the hospital could have done something to save her son’s life instead of leaving him unattended on the floor.