After leaving home to go fishing, a Bush Lot Village, Corentyne mother returned home yesterday to find her 10-year son dead—hanging from a rope around his neck, next to their home.
Rishie Mohabir, 10, was a student of Crabwood Creek Primary School.
According to his mother, Darshanie Roopnarine, she left him home as she ventured a few villages away to catch fish, which she would normally do. She said initially the boy wanted to go fishing with her but she told him to stay home and fly his kite. She also noted that she told the lad to eat when he became hungry and watch his cartoons until she returned, which he agreed too.
She said he was left in the care of his two older sisters. “Now when me deh catch fish, me neighbour come and tell me me son hang heself. And me ask [if] he dead and he say yes. Me thought was joke but when me come me see he hang up there,” she said.
The mother said she was told that one of her daughters called on Rishie to eat but after he did not immediately respond she went ahead and took a shower. “And she say when she a come out from the bathroom she eye clash there,” Roopnarine said. “He tell them he a go pick mango and normally he does go pick mango from the neighbour, so them girl think he gone to pick mango,” the woman said.
The police have launched an investigation and a post-mortem examination is expected to carried out early next week to determine whether there was any foul play in the child’s death.
Meanwhile, Roopnarine recalled two instances in the past where Rishie, while playing, would take ropes and tie them around his neck. She said she would scold him and warm him of the danger of doing so. “Me na get none problem. He eat and he make one nice hearts kite and he fly am,” the emotional mother added.
She further stated that Rishie’s father passed away when he was just two years old. She said she has always worked and taken care of her children.
