Another mother is calling for justice after her baby died at a day care centre in Diego Martin. Three-month-old baby, Anastacia Phillip, was the second baby to have died in the past six days while in the alleged care of babysitters.
Mother Tiffany Phillip, 25, now wants answers as to how her child died on Wednesday at the Diego Martin day care run by a husband and wife. She went to Crime Watch host Ian Alleyne with her story yesterday seeking an intervention.
Speaking with the T&T Guardian afterwards, Phillip said she dropped off her baby at the day care at about 9.30 am and went to work.
She said while on duty at Redlight Grill, Port-of-Spain, she received a phone call at about 2 pm from her mother, Allison Lloyd, who told her something was wrong with her baby.
“Imagine no one from the day care called me. They called the child’s grandmother and told her to tell me to come quick that the baby not breathing. When I reach my baby was already in the ambulance.
“There was something hooked up to her toe, hand and belly and they were trying to resuscitate her but nothing,” Phillip said with tears rolling down her cheek.
She said baby Anastacia was taken to the St James Infirmary where medical practitioners tried unsuccessfully to revive her.
“They tried pumping her but nothing. They sent something down her throat maybe to shock her but still nothing. My baby died,” Phillip added.
She said the autopsy is scheduled for today as the pathologist assigned to the Forensic Science Centre, St James, was in Tobago yesterday attending to the double murder victims Richard and Grace Wheeler.
Phillip, who is a single-parent, alleged she was told the person in charge at the day care left her baby in the care of two other people that day (on Wednesday).
“I do not know who those two persons are but up to now I am still waiting for the owner — the woman and her husband — to come and talk to me. They are choosing to talk to my mother but not me and I want to know why,” Phillip said.
Phillip is expected to lodge an official police report at the West End Police Station.
Efforts to reach an official at the day care for comment yesterday were unsuccessful.
On Friday at about 11.30 am, Ramesh Ramnath said he dropped off his 11-month-old son, Mikyle, at a day care, not far from his North Oropouche Road home, when he received a call that his baby was unresponsive.