IN JAMAICA: Bloody Mystery Uncertainty surrounds how babies, parents got blood all over them.... twin girls woke up with fresh blood all over their bodies, swollen faces and teeth marks on their skin.....“We have to sleep on the floor because is one bed we have and is seven of us,”

Half of the face of this
 one-year-and-five-month-old
 baby was swollen and smeared
 with blood while she slept
in her Kingston 5 home.

BY DONNA HUSSEY-WHYTE Sunday Observer staff reporter husseyd@jamaicaobserver.com

LINVAL Grant and Vicky Forrest have a lot of issues on their plates. One such is trying to figure out how their twin girls, aged one year and five months, woke up with fresh blood all over their bodies, swollen faces and teeth marks on their skin.

The incidents occurred in August last year and January this year, and have left the family of seven in fear and reluctant to sleep at night. “We have to sleep on the floor because is one bed we have and is seven of us,” Grant told the Jamaica Observer on Friday.

“The room cannot hold another bed, not even the smallest, so what we have to do is spread some sheet on the ground and sleep on it,” he said.

On January 16, Linval Grant
and Vicky Forrest woke up to
find one of their babies
covered in blood.

Grant explained that when the first incident occurred, one of the girls was on the bed while the other was on the ground with him. “Now she (Vicky) wake me up about 2 o’clock and say ‘Linval, what happen to you? Look on yuself’.

When mi look the whole of mi blood up and the pillow blood up. It was more than a pint of blood. The baby blood up and when you look underneath the bed you have some baby footstep in blood,” Grant stated.

“So me now assume that is drop the baby drop off the bed,” he said. “But when mi look on the top of the bed where the other twin was sleeping, I realise that she (Forrest) blood up too. So I say this weird. But it don’t look like when somebody bleeding out, it look like when you throwing something and it drop on you — like in drops.

O’Neil Irey, 11, takes care of his
twin sisters by feeding bag juice to
 one at their home in Kingston 5
 on Friday. (PHOTOS: LINVAL GRANT)

And it wasn’t on any of the other kids, it was just she (Forrest), me and the baby. So mi still assume that is drop the baby drop off the bed and she hold the baby and that’s how she blood up.
“So mi check the baby mouth and there was no damage or anything at all. I checked her nose, eyes, ears, and nothing. I took off her clothes and look ... and nothing.
So I called some friends and show them and they assume that maybe the baby drop and one assume that is ghost walk over the child. But I didn’t pay that any mind. I just leave it at that,” a still puzzled Grant said. Then, on January 16, he said that a similar incident occurred. It was around the same time of morning as the first, but this time the other baby was affected. “Her face blood up, but the way it was blood up was weird.
Nothing was wrong with her right cheek, but her left cheek swell up. So half of her face swell and the half that swell blood up, like she was sleeping on one side and the blood just get on the side that was up.
So I look on it and I said this is not real,” he revealed. After closer examination, Grant realised that the other twin had blood spots on her.
“So I’m saying it seems impossible because I was sleeping on the ground, they were in the middle and my girlfriend on the other end, and no blood didn’t touch us this time, no form of blood, not even a spot.

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