A Morvant mother, whose son was poisoned by a 16-year-old relative last Monday, has forgiven her son's attacker. Up to late yesterday, the boy, a Standard Four pupil of Rose Hill RC School, remained warded at the Wendy Fitzwilliam Paediatric Hospital, Mt Hope, in critical condition. In an interview, his deeply distraught mother Onika Lynch said the attending doctors said his kidneys were failing because of the poisonous substance yet to be identified in a toxicology report. "I don't want the person to go to jail. They need psychological help. Right now I just want my son to recover." Lynch said.
Lynch said: "The doctors only realised it might be poisoning when I investigated. Before, they thought it was food poisoning from a lunch at the school." Lynch, a mother of six, said her son was taken to the hospital after vomiting continuously for two days. "He complained of feeling ill on Monday after school and said he felt it was a box lunch which he had earlier in the day," she said. "It's only when he start to vomit blood he confessed that she (the relative) gave him some "medicine" in four syringes at school and told him to say it was the lunch," Lynch added.
She said after confronting the relative, the 16-year-old student confessed to the act and gave her a bottle containing the toxic substance believed to be the herbicide, gramoxone. The sample was later given to the doctors at Mt Hope for testing. "I don't know what would make her (the relative) do this. My son and her fight, but nothing serious," Lynch said. On Friday, the girl was taken to the Besson Street police station by police where she was said to be co-operating with police. Sgt Avalon Frank of the Besson Street CID is continuing investigations.