As police continue to investigate the suspicious death of a two-year-old girl of Haslington, East Coast Demerara (ECD), relatives are hinting to investigators that the child may have died from bird flu.But a police source attached to the Cove and John Police Station yesterday told Kaieteur News that they are not prepared to “buy” what the relatives are claiming.Little Kimanie Watson of Lot 46 South Haslington was pronounced dead at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Monday, hours after she was seen playing in their yard with her cousins.Medical practitioners are of the view that the child was sexually molested. Her 15-year-old uncle in whose care she was left prior to her death has been detained.“We cannot make a conclusion as yet. We are waiting on the results of the Post Mortem to take our investigation to the next level. We have detained the uncle, but he is not cooperating,” a police source told this newspaper.Yesterday, during a telephone interview,Cheap Jerseys Free, the child’s grandmother,Cheap Jerseys Online, Dianne Graham,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, who is also the mother of the teenager in custody,Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys, said that she is thinking about hiring a lawyer.“I don’t know why they lock up my son so long. He didn’t do anything. He didn’t touch that child and she was never raped, because I does always be with her,” the woman stressed.Graham had explained to this newspaper that the child was left in her care,Cheap Jerseys China, but on Monday, she left the little girl at home with her son to run an errand.“After my daughter left home, I left to go collect money and I leave her (Kimanie) with my son,” a devastated Graham noted.She explained that she was informed that her granddaughter was playing in the yard with her cousins. “She went playing and like she mess up and the girls call him (her son) to clean her.”The woman explained that her son told her that he took the child to the bathroom and bathed her,Wholesale NFL Jerseys, but he noticed that she was having continuous bowel movements.“He told me that he took her upstairs and give her tea,NFL Jerseys China, but she fainted, and he call a relative and they carry her to the health centre, then to the hospital,” the mother said.Yesterday, the woman said that she is positive her son is innocent.“They didn’t even check if the child had bird flu, but they arrested my son for rape. Even my daughter (the dead child’s mother) wants her brother to come out the lock up,” Graham told Kaieteur News.This newspaper was informed that the child was a victim of consistent child abuse. |