A woman suffering from possible post-partum depression and domestic problems yesterday allegedly burnt her home down at 22 Meadowbrook Drive, Meadowbrook Gardens and was subsequently arrested.
While no one was in the house at the time residents had to break the windows of the house of the woman’s western neighbours and free a 20-year-old handicapped young woman who was at the time locked in the home. This house suffered damage caused by water. Electrical appliances were destroyed.
“We look up and see Nikki place on fire and she just walking up the road…is them boys had to grab what ever they could and start put out the fire with the trench water…then the police come and carry down Nikki”, a resident told Stabroek News.
Deon Croft, the neighbour whose house was damaged, expressed her thanks to residents who saved her home but lamented the losses incurred and how she would be able to move on.”I still thankful for them saving my house but all my clothes wet up. I ain’t even got clothes to put on…right now I cant think of all the things that gone and how much for them”, Croft told reporters. Her son later estimated the damages and was querying which agency they could turn to for assistance.
Neighbours said the alleged arsonist, reportedly in her 30s and the mother of seven started acting “freaky” shortly after her last child, now 6 months old, was born.
“All the time she wasn’t like that she was good, good then after this baby like she start going you know…she and the child father had problems too. She would cuss he up and tell he don’t come and so”, a neighbour said.
The neighbour added that it was alleged that after the baby was born the mother one day kicked the child and this scared her other siblings who moved around the corner into their great aunt’s home.
The woman said that this apparently worsened the woman’s condition in addition she had informed that she was not being allowed to visit the children. “She walking saying I want see meh children. They aint letting me see meh children…I seh like Nikki tripping”, the neighbour said.
She then advised the woman’s mother to get her medical help as they believed that she was “going mad”.
Yesterday, the Great Aunt of the woman’s children said that she was unable to speak with reporters but informed that all the children were with her and doing fine and that their mother was at the police station.
