(Jamaica Observer) – A four-year-old child fled her house in the early hours of Wednesday morning to get help after her mother’s throat was slashed in the deep-rural community of Clarendon. Dead is Danecia Fearon, who would have turned 27 next week.
According to Fearon’s aunt, Claudia Ricketts, the child walked 20 minutes to her grandparents’ house to get help after her mother had been killed in the bed they shared.
“I was saying it must be an angel carry dis likkle girl, because the journey is long. Is a good likkle distance she walk,” said Ricketts.
“The child left the house about minutes to two, went and called her sister and tell her to come for clothes, because dem kill her mother. [She said]: ‘Mummy up there inna blood. ‘ So they called the police.”
She added that Fearon was found in her bed with what appeared to be chop wounds to her upper body.
Ricketts said it appeared Fearon’s attackers kicked in her door to gain entry, and her death was brutal.
“To how mi see di [impression] on the mattress it look like she get a cut up her throat. There was a lot of blood up where she put her head. They kick off the back door and kill her, and a she and the baby was inside,” she said.
