THE 16-year-old boy who caused the death of Nina Blair, nine, after he drove a vehicle into the wall of Alpha Children’s Home, Gay Park, New Amsterdam on Christmas Eve, causing it to crumble on the child was on Thursday charged for manslaughter.The minor was also placed on $350,000 bail and was instructed to return to court on February 17, 2017, by Magistrate Mauricia Mittelholzer.
The incident happened about 14:00hrs when Blair was playing in the yard at the Alpha Children’s Home in Gay Park, Greater New Amsterdam, Berbice.
The 16-year-old, also an orphan who lives at the Home, reportedly sneaked into a car belonging to the institution, started it up, and pressed the accelerator, causing the vehicle to slam into a stump wall which fell on Blair.
The founder, Ms Esther Bruyning, with the help of other children from the orphanage, pulled Blair from the rubble and rushed her to the New Amsterdam Hospital.
But because of the severity of her injuries, which were mostly confined to her head, the child was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital where she died on Christmas morning.