BY HORACE HINES Observer West reporter hinesh@jamaicaobserver.com Thursday, May 29, 2014
PLANTATION HEIGHTS, St James
SIMONE Foster, 27, the distressed mother of nine-year-old Romaine Robinson, also called 'Star Boy', who was viciously murdered in this normally quiet community last week, is blaming herself for her son's death, having left him to live with her boyfriend in Linstead, St Catherine.
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| Romaine's grandmother, Gwendolyn Todd-Foster (right), her daughter Simone Foster (seated left), with her two children, Keira and Daniel Fletcher, was a picture of grief when the Observer West visited Plantation Heights yesterday. |
"Mi regret seh mi leave because if mi never leave, mi son wouldn't die. Mi regret it because if I was here I could a protect him. Mi blame myself 100 per cent," said the mother who was a picture of grief yesterday.
"When I am here he doesn't leave out the yard because mi have him under strict rule. When him come from school in the evenings mi don't make him go nowhere. Mi have him under strict rule. Mi seh, Romaine, stay in the yard, mi don't want him walk 'bout because you see every minute them beat him up."
Reports from the Cambridge Police are that about 6:22 am, on Thursday, May 22, Romaine's body was found tied up in bushes with stab wounds to the neck.
Subsequently, a 14-year-old member of the community, who is said to be a close friend of the deceased, was arrested and charged with the gruesome murder, after he reportedly confessed to the crime.
The murder weapon was allegedly discovered at his grandmother's home.
According to Senior Superintendent in charge of the St James police division, Egbert Parkins, investigation led to the arrest of the juvenile, who "gave an account of what transpired."
SSP Parkins, who offered condolences to the family of the deceased, however, expressed relief at an early breakthrough in the case.
Meanwhile, when the Jamaica Observer West visited the area yesterday, Foster's mother, Gwendolyn Todd-Foster, said that her grandson who was left in her care, occasionally slept at the home of 'Nyah', an elderly man who lives close by.
She reiterated that when she went to look for her grandson at a nearby shop late on the evening of Wednesday, May 21, and did not see him, she was not perturbed as she thought he was at the home of 'Nyah,' who customarily cooks and shares meals with Romaine.
"Mi believe he was at Nyah because Nyah cook for both of them and when him ready him sleep over Nyah. So through mi seh him gone over Nyah, mi never worry myself because mi never know seh any harm would come to him," the grief-stricken grandmother explained. more
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