Caribbean Times 49th Issue - Tuesday 12th July 2016

Tuesday 12th July 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 9
‘Bring dem to justice!’ - Three-yearold
twin girl slain
KINGSTON - Residents
of Orange Hill in Brown’s
Town, St Ann, are calling
for the heads of those responsible
for the slaying of
three-year-old Nevalesia
Campbell, whose body was
discovered in bushes with
chop wounds about 9:30
yesterday morning.
“There is nothing that a
little pickney can do to deserve
this, even if the parents
dem do somebody something.
Good God man!” one
man exclaimed.
“God going bring dem to
justice!” a woman added.
Acting commander of the
St Ann police Superintendent
Gary Francis said the
mother of the child reported
her missing at about 2:00
am.
“She informed the police
that about 10:30 pm last
night she put Nevalesia and
her twin brother to bed. At
about 11:00 pm she woke
up and gave the child water.
She was watching television
with her when she fell
asleep. At about 1:30 am she
woke up and recognised that
Nevalesia was missing,” Superintendent
Francis told the
Jamaica Observer.
“Her body was later
found with chop wounds in
a precipice,” Francis said.
Unconfirmed reports are that
she was sexually abused by
her attacker.
The mother, Mahalia
Poyser, had to be taken to
the hospital since the incident.
Angry residents said
whoever committed the
gruesome act should be punished,
but the superintendent
appealed to them to cooperate
with the police by telling
them what they know.
“Do not take justice into
your own hands,” he urged.
Francis said the police
are “looking into a number
of theories, and are appealing
to residents to tell the
police what they know. We
want to appeal to parents, to
mothers, to do more to protect
their children,” Francis
said.
There are reports that residents
heard a child crying in
the night, but did not think it
was a result of the child being
harmed.
“People hear the crying
and think ah duppy a cry,”
one woman said.
Several of them are dispelling
the mother’s report
that the child was taken
while she slept. They are
theorising that she was at a
function in the community
when the child was taken
and that it was perpetrated
by a fellow resident.
“Something inna something,”
one woman said.
“Somebody know that the
mother [was] not there.”
Another woman said:
“When mi come ‘round ya
Three-year-old Nevalesia Campbell
this morning ah the mercy a
God mek mi no drop down,”
expressing her emotional
state.
“This is a very sad day
in the community; the community
must come together
and tell the police what
they know,” Councillor for
the Brown’s Town Division
Delroy Redway said.
Meanwhile, Opposition
Leader Portia Simpson Miller
deplored the killing and
has commiserated with the
residents, saying that, “Jamaicans
must be particularly
incensed that children
continue to be among the
victims of vile and senseless
murders.”
“I grieve with the parents,
family members and
the entire community at this
senseless killing of one so
young. I convey my sincere
condolence to her parents at
this time of great pain and
loss,” Simpson Miller said
in a statement yesterday.
The Opposition leader
added that the killing represents
a loss of potential as
no one knows for sure the
positive impact the young
victim would have had on
the society if she had been
given the opportunity to develop
into an adult and contribute
to the building of her
community and nation.
“All well-thinking Jamaicans
must deplore and speak
out against these gruesome
acts of brutality against Jamaica’s
children,” Simpson
Miller added. (Jamaica Observer)