BY PAUL HENRY Crime/Court Desk co-ordinator henryp@jamaicaobserver.com Monday, December 01, 2014
ANNMARIE Karram would cradle her newborn baby, Akeem, tenderly stroke his plump face, and speak to him in a loving, soft tone as she promises to keep him safe.
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| Annmarie Karram is disconsolate as she reflects on how her baby, Akeem (right) was stolen from her arms. (PHOTOS: PAUL HENRY) |
“You are the youngest baby I have and I don’t want anything to happen to you,” the 36-year-old mother of five children would tell her son.
“Just like how the others survive, you will survive too.” Often, she would rock Akeem to sleep, cradling him in her bosom long after he had closed his eyes, and stare at his face, a picture of tranquility.
At times her mother would make a fuss, telling her not to allow the baby to sleep in her arms because “it will spoil him”. But it was her baby to hold and to keep safe.
However, just seven weeks after his birth, on October 8 at home in Content/Retreat, St Mary, Akeem would be snatched from the loving arms of his mother on Monday, November 24, by two women in the neighbouring parish of St Ann.
The incident has devastated Karram, who now feels that she has failed in her duty to protect her newborn from the savagery of the world, and left the extended family and police puzzled.
“Anywhere you have him, I want you to carry him back,” Karram pleaded to her baby’s abductors during an interview with the Jamaica Observer on the weekend. more
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