-police to send file to DPP

THE owner of Little Learning Day Care at Ogle, East Coast Demerara where seven-month-old Oriyah Gravesande spent the last few hours of her life, has been released on cash bail and a file will be sent to the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) today for advice.

Police said, in a statement on Sunday, that a joint investigation was conducted by investigators from the Guyana Police Force and the Child Care and Protection Agency, Ministry of Human Service and Social Protection, and a file was compiled.

It added that legal advice will be sought today.

In its update on the matter, the police said that the owner is on cash bail and is reporting daily at the Sparendaam Police Station.

Guyana Chronicle understands that the facility has been operating for over two decades without the proper documentation. Following the death of the infant, it was closed down.

Last Tuesday, it was reported that the baby died after she fell from a bed and became tangled between the sheets.

However, a post-mortem revealed that she died due to hemorrhaging and compression to the neck.

In an invited comment to reporters at the hospital, the baby’s distraught father, Odysseus Clement said that the family is seeking answers.

“The results are haemorrhage to the head and compression to the neck… So, therefore, the baby fell off of the bed on the right side and the baby was strangled…. It [Oriyah] couldn’t get to breathe,” the father said.

He added: “We check out the place [the daycare] but when time meet fuh go inside, they block my wife from going inside and they convince we that people pop up any time to see if it in standard.”

Clement said that they are still trying to piece everything together since the daycare is still not forthcoming about the child’s death.

“I need justice… I don’t want other parents to go through this pain because, it ain’t easy,” the grieving father said.