Mother suspicious after…
THE dead body of schoolboy Dacwaun Sutherland, of Lot 479 ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was discovered early yesterday morning in a trench not far from his home. His mother, Zon Park told the Guyana Chronicle her only child left her workplace on an errand about 13:00 h the day before, to take some meat home and return with some things, including two bottles for them to fetch water home that evening.
The grieving woman said, usually, her son, after school, would stay with her until she finished work as a security guard at the Digicel Tower in Sophia and they would go home together.
Other residents confirmed that they, regularly, see mother and son walking to and from school and work daily.
On Wednesday, the boy was seen alive in the village up to about 16:00 h, playing with some other children but, after then, his whereabouts were unknown.
Persons who live near to where his corpse was found said they were only alerted when another villager raised the alarm on seeing the lifeless body being in the water.
The Sophia Primary School pupil’s death shocked the community where people spoke of the deplorable conditions of wooden bridges, drains and roads.
The bridges the lad had to cross were flooded and the walkways were very muddy.
It was about an hour after his mother began enquiring about him that a search began after she had reported him missing at Turkeyen Police Station, where she was told to revisit the precinct in 24 hours.
Park said it was unlike Dacwaun not to return home and he was always with her wherever she went but is unsure what happened to the eight-year-old.
His neck appeared to have been broken and he was clad only in his underwear when pulled out of the trench but he had left her workplace dressed in a vest, camouflage pants, footwear, a bag containing some personal effects and two water bottles, she said.
Park said some of the items in the bag were missing when the water bottles were retrieved from in the water.
She does not believe he drowned but suspects he was killed elsewhere, for a sacrificial purpose and dumped in the trench, because his remains were not there Wednesday night and earlier yesterday morning.
“When I saw my son on the grass yesterday morning, he looked as though he was sleeping but both sides of his neck were swollen and it was turning around when he was placed in the hearse,” Park stated.