The grief-stricken father of five-year-old Brianna Dover whose lifeless body was pulled from the disused Tucville Sewerage System last July says that his child could have been alive today if the site was secured ten years ago when another toddler fell into the cesspool.
It has been almost 15 months since the tragedy touched the hearts of Guyanese in all corners of society, and the area has since been fenced off and a security guard posted at the site.
Since then there have been no incidents at the cesspool and the children in the Tucville area keep far from it as their parents would have recounted the horror story to them.
Brianna’s parents and her siblings still find it hard to cope with her death and are still grieving. At the family’s D’Urban Street home in Lodge on Monday Sherwin Dover’s grief was evident as he spoke to this newspaper.
Dover who has lost weight since the incident said that Saturday was his daughter’s seventh birthday and he passed the day horribly. He is planning a trip to her grave site to weed and lay some flowers.
He said that Brianna’s two younger siblings ask for her every day and would often squabble for her belongings.
Recounting that period when he lost his daughter, Dover said that “is real foolishness that mek me daughta dead.”
He explained that everything could have been avoided had the child’s mother kept them (Brianna and her two siblings) at his home. He said that they had a misunderstanding and that prompted her to take the children to her mother, behind the cesspool.
“I think about her a lot