Autopsies performed yesterday on the bodies of four-year-old Odacia Cadogan and her sixteen- month-old brother Jabar Cadogan who died last Thursday after they were allegedly fed poison by their mother, found that the cause of death was due to insecticide poisoning.
Their mother, Awena Rutherford, remains a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital under police guard. An aunt of the woman said that she was not sure when Rutherford was going to be discharged but that her condition was not improving.
According to reports, on Thursday Rutherford pick-ed her children up from their aunt at Ann’s Grove, East Coast Demerara at approximately 5 pm and travelled to their home at Perth, Mahaicony.
Relatives said that they received a phone call an hour later and were informed that Jabar and Odacia were being treated at the Mahaicony Hospital.
Jabar succumbed at the Mahaicony Hospital while his sister and their mother were rushed to the GPH. Odacia passed away some time after 10pm while being treated by doctors. Rutherford had said that she also consumed poison.
The children are expected to be buried on Sunday.
