ST MARY, Jamaica – Family and community members in Deans Pen, St Mary, are still asking what could have led 49-year-old Clive Barrett to beat his 22-month-old grandniece to death on Wednesday evening.
Twenty-two-month-old Eshauna Gardner reportedly died following injuries sustained from a beating she received on October 30. According to Ian Gardner, the father of the child, no one expected it as Barrett was very close to the child and treated her as his own daughter.
"Him treat the baby very good. Nobody at all would expect it," he told Jamaica Observer during a telephone interview. Gardner said Eshauna was his only daughter and so her death is very devastating for him.
"Mi love mi baby to the maximum. A the only girl," he explained. He said the child’s mother, who has a six-month-old baby, was finding it hard to cope. “She stress out,” he said
Gardner who is from St Catherine, did not live with his child; he said, however, that when he was there, Barrett always treated the child well. Read more:
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