June Alexander, the 10-year-old girl who was critically injured on Monday following an incident at the Regma Primary School at Mackenzie, Linden, succumbed at a city hospital yesterday afternoon.
Her aunt, Gail Annette Hamilton, told Stabroek News that she was informed of Alexander’s death by the Georgetown Public Hospital around 4.30 pm yesterday.
The girl was rushed to the Mackenzie Hospital on Monday afternoon after she sustained serious head injuries during an incident at the school. Her family has since been receiving conflicting reports about what exactly transpired.
Hamilton had previously explained to Stabroek News that around 3 pm on Monday, a teacher from the school visited Alexander’s grandmother, Sandra Sumner, and informed her that the young woman was admitted to the Mackenzie Hospital in an unconscious condition.
Upon hearing the news, Sumner immediately contacted Alexander’s mother, Angela Hamilton, and they rushed to the hospital.
“The doctors say they didn’t able with her and she has to go to town and scan her head,” Annette had explained, while noting that the child was on life support since her admission to the Mackenzie Hospital.
Alexander was later transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where she was admitted until her demise.
Hamilton had further explained that the following day she had to go to the school to deal with a complaint that her daughter had made to her about someone from the school hitting her with a piece of wood in her back.
While at the school, she related to the officials that she was Alexander’s aunt and enquired whether they knew what happened to her.
“They said she was running on the corridor and her laces tangled and she slipped on sand and knocked her head. I said okay and this is the report we told the doctor [at GPHC] about what happened. They did the CT scan and the doctor said it wasn’t from falling like that and it was more severe. He even called the police and told them it wasn’t a fall,” Hamilton recalled.
She disclosed that when the police visited the school to do their investigation, they were told conflicting reports.
“One person said the child was skipping and fell on the concrete and that’s what the police told us. The doctor even called the mother and asked the mother if she [her daughter] had problem with anyone at the school because it seems like if the child was beaten and fell from a height,” she added.
The tests from the CT scan showed that Alexander was bleeding in her brain.
Stabroek News was told that that the police have since launched an investigation into the child’s death.
Police Commander of ‘E’ Division Linden Lord had previously related to this newspaper that the police interviewed students, teachers and cleaners from the school and were told that the child was running before she fell off stairs and hit her head.
She was picked up in an unconscious state, he said.
However, Lord noted that they are still investigating because they are receiving conflicting reports and upon completion of the probe, the file will be sent for legal advice.
