Fourteen-year-old Rosetta Dummett has succumbed to the massive head injuries she sustained in an accident on Saturday afternoon.
Dummet passed away on Wednesday afternoon in the Intensive Care Unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital where she had been admitted on Saturday evening. The teen’s relatives were up to yesterday still coming to grips with her death.
Rosetta’s grandmother, Monica Dummett told Stabroek News yesterday that she still had not heard from the police but learnt that the driver of the minibus which hit the child was released on $30, 000 station bail prior to her death. The man was also allegedly seen, by relatives, driving the said minibus on the Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) Public Road. An officer in charge at the Grove Police Station has since confirmed that the man was indeed released on station bail but was yesterday taken back into custody after the police learnt of the child’s passing.
Rosetta was the second of 12 children to her parents Nadira Persaud and Lynden Dummet. The teen resided with her grandmother at her Lot 216 Grove/Kaneville and was a student at Xenon Academy. Rosetta had to be rushed to the hospital on Saturday afternoon after she was hit by a speeding bus eyewitnesses said. The teen’s relatives said she had just crossed the road at the corner of Servan Street when a minibus travelling along the EBD Public Road overtook a bus which had stopped to allow a passenger to disembark when it hit the child. The child had just finished helping her grandmother to set up a stand where she sold black pudding every Saturday afternoon and was heading back into the street where the family lives when the vehicle struck her.
