| A family spat which purportedly stemmed from a dispute over a lollipop has left a seven-year-old girl and her 31-year-old uncle with injuries to their neck, back and hands as a result of scalding hot water which was thrown at them on Friday, last.Stanley Baksh,Cheap Soccer Jerseys Free Shipping, who resides at Lot 47 Guyhoc Park, Georgetown and his niece were treated for second degree burns after his 16 year old stepdaughter threw a pot of piping hot water on them. Baksh, an American Stores bondsman, claimed that he had returned home from work to relieve his ‘wife’ of babysitting duties, while she went shopping at a city market,NFL Jerseys Outlet,He was left to care for his five-month old baby and one-year old daughter as well as his niece and a neighbour’s child.“I go home to take care ah de four kids. When ah reach deh, me one year old daughter de fussin’ so I decide fuh give she a lollipop fuh quiet she down. But me stepdaughter come and pull it out she mouth and throw it away,” Baksh related.According to the man, this act was repeated about three times. However, on the third occasion,Cheap NBA Jerseys China, the 16-year-old young lady spewed, “You is ah crass and a waste in this house. I don’t know why you don’t go lang yuh way.”The verbal battle intensified as Baksh responded with verbal taunts of his own.Baksh recalled that at this point, the young lady flew into a fit of rage and rushed into the kitchen of the one storey house and placed a pot of water to boil on the stove. Baksh told Kaieteur News that he was also in the kitchen, making porridge for the five-month-old baby.He claimed that the pot of water was still on the lighted stove but he had no clue that it was actually meant for him.He added however that he decided to take the other three children over at the neighbour’s to avoid further argument with his teenaged step daughter who he said had grown increasingly disrespectful.Baksh explained that as he bent down and was holding the chair up for his niece to search for her slippers,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, he felt what he described as “a heat” on his back. At the same time, he heard his step daughter proclaim “Is you ah put on the water fuh.”Uncle and niece burnt with hot water.But the water had caught his niece also.“I raise and turn around and I see she trying to throw it again but I block she. By then, I hear my niece screaming, running down the step, so I follow she. I didn’t even realise I geh bun up suh,” Baksh said.Meanwhile, his niece, who is a Grade Two student of the Ketley Primary School,NFL Jerseys China, said “I been searching for my slipper when she throw the water. Ah just feel something on top me back burning hot, hot, hot.”The seven-year-old told this publication that “When I reach downstairs, ah jump up and down like a frog, bawling in pain.”Baksh said too that he rushed downstairs to tend to his niece but “As ah raise the jersey off her back, I see she skin peeling off.”Although the two victims were writhing in pain, the teenager was apparently not finished with them.According to Baksh, in an attempt to get some powder to place on his niece’s injuries,Cheap NFL Jerseys, he went upstairs but as he was returning to her, his stepdaughter threw the now empty pot at him but it missed him.After receiving treatment at the Georgetown Hospital, Baksh along with his niece’s mother reported the matter to the police at the East La Penitence Police Station.The teenager was subsequently arrested on Friday. She was however released on bail the following day.Charges are likely to follow. |
