PORT Kaituma Hospital officials were shocked and dismayed to learn on Thursday afternoon that three physically abused male toddlers — aged seven, five and 18 months old — were found abandoned in a house at Oronoque, a section of Port Kaituma in the North West District mining community of Region One.According to a hospital source, a male relative of the little boys returned to Port Kaituma on Thursday afternoon after spending several weeks in the mining fields there, and was horrified to find the boys alone at home, hungry and abused.

He told authorities that the boys’ mother, a resident of Agricola, Greater Georgetown whose name was given, had allegedly left them alone earlier in the week, after severely beating one of his brothers.
The family had reportedly moved into the area a month ago.

One of the boys was on Friday nursing a cut to one of his feet, and had swollen hands, which he reportedly sustained after being beaten by his mother; while the 18-month-old bore signs of physical abuse on his person.

“If you see these children skin,” a hospital source told Guyana Chronicle on Friday.

The children are being treated at the Port Kaituma Hospital for various ailments and for dehydration.

Social Services officers from Georgetown are expected to travel to the area in the coming days, and a decision will be made on relocating the children to a probation facility.

Unconfirmed reports are that police have arrested the boys’ mother in the mining community on Friday afternoon.