Georgetown: Eighteen-year-old Martha Miguel who is accused of discarding her nine-month-old son in a drain and leaving him to die was on Tuesday charged with Murder and remanded to prison until June 1, 2021.
Miguel appeared before Magistrate Zamilla Ally-Seepaul at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court. She was not required to plead to the indictable charge which stated that on April 9, 2021, at Jango Street, Parika Backdam, East Bank Essequibo, she murdered her child Ekron Miguel.
A police report noted that the baby boy had two disabilities – he could not walk or speak. It is alleged that the mother was on her way home with the child and while in the street, he started to cry at around 19:00hrs and she assumed he was hungry.
The young mother told the police that she decided to sit on the parapet of the road with the baby wrapped in a blanket but later decided to leave him in the grass so that she can visit a friend, identified as “Brian” for assistance.
At Brian’s house, she asked for some tea for the child and noted that he will die if he doesn’t get anything to eat.
According to the police report, the mother was then questioned by Brian as to the whereabouts of her son and that was when she made an attempt to run away and jumped into a nearby canal.
She was quickly apprehended by Brian, who informed her [Martha] brother about the incident.
The brother summoned the police and it was only then that the mother took the cops to Jango Street where they found the baby boy floating in the drain.
He was immediately rushed to the Leonora Cottage Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
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