By Sue-Ann Wayow
A ONE-YEAR-OLD baby girl who was chopped on her head with a cutlass, died on Sunday night at hospital.
Little Soriah Williams from Hellshire Drive, Tarodale, Ste Madeleine who is one year and three months old, died at the San Fernando General Hospital at 10.23pm.
Police reported that around 10 pm, police officers were on mobile patrol and enquiries along Naparima-Mayaro Road, Ste Madeleine in the vicinity of Tarodale, Phase 1, when they were flagged down by a motorist who informed he was taking an infant with injuries and its mother to the hospital.
The first responders were informed of the location of the scene where the child received the injuries and went to Sion Drive, Tarodale.
On arrival there, they met the child’s relative who said around 8.15pm she was at home together with the baby and the 33-year-old mother and also the suspect.
They were all upstairs in the gallery when the suspect began quarrelling and went inside the house.
Williams was sitting on the relative’s lap when the suspect returned to the gallery armed with a cutlass and began to swing it in their direction.
Williams was chopped in the head and the relative received wounds to the left hand and right wrist.
Villagers were alerted and the suspect ran inside the house to hide securing himself inside a locked backroom.
The mother then ran out of the house with her baby and sought the assistance of a neighbour who took them to the hospital for medical attention.
The officers then called for assistance and upon their arrival, the police party entered the house and proceeded to a backroom where they met the suspect armed with a cutlass.
He was s arrested and WPC Mohammed took possession of the brown wooden handle metal cutlass.
The suspect taken to the Ste Madeleine Police Station. He was also taken to the Princes Town District Health Facility to seek medical attention.
