The 16-year-old pregnant teenager, who was beaten last Friday by a male relative, was on Sunday night readmitted to the hospital in a weakened state and doctors are now monitoring her condition.
The girl’s mother, Jacqueline Fordyce, told Stabroek News yesterday that because of the broken jaw her daughter sustained as a result of the beating she has been unable to eat and has become progressively weak. She was forced to rush her to the hospital. She said the girl, Christanta Fordyce, was admitted and the doctors administered saline to her.
Asked about the girl’s baby the mother said an
ultra sound was done yesterday and the four-month foetus was said to be doing fine.
Meanwhile, the woman said that her relative remains on the run even though the police have been actively looking for him. She explained that the relative recently moved out from where he lives and she does not know his current address so she is unable to direct the police. On Sunday evening he contacted his mother and was advised that the child was back in the hospital. He indicated that he had read the story in the newspapers but refused to turn himself into the police.
“He don’t want to hear that,” the teen’s mother said when asked if relatives have advised him to turn himself over to the police. She said none of their relatives have agreed with the way he attacked her daughter.
The mother on Saturday had told this newspaper that her daughter was “ill-treated” and left in the middle of the road after she was beaten. She now cannot speak because of the jaw injury, which doctors said will heal in another 45 days.
The woman had said her daughter was beaten by the older male relative, who is a popular money-changer on America Street and who also owns a local football club.
Christanta was reportedly speaking with an older friend of the relative when the beating started.
It was not the first time the man, who was at one time charged with murder but was later found not guilty, has beaten the teenager, the mother had said.
