Sascha?Wil­son

Chan­mat­tee De­onar­i­nesingh said yes­ter­day that she loved ba­by Kris­tiano Az­iz and was very sor­ry he died while un­der her care.De­onar­i­nesingh, 45, a qual­i­fied nurse who has been run­ning a day­care at her Bar­rack­pore home for the past ten years, spoke out about the in­ci­dent for the first time since the ba­by's death.

The ba­by's moth­er Lisa Ram­jat­tan, 26, found the child un­re­spon­sive when she went to pick him up on Mon­day.He was ly­ing on his tum­my in a bed top pen. The child was lat­er pro­nounced dead at the Princes Town Dis­trict Health Cen­tre. An au­top­sy found his death was caused by po­si­tion­al as­phyx­ia and his death has been ruled as ac­ci­den­tal.

Sev­er­al par­ents went to De­onar­i­nesingh's home yes­ter­day with their chil­dren to lend sup­port.De­onar­i­nesingh, who had to seek med­ical treat­ment for high blood pres­sure at a pri­vate nurs­ing fol­low­ing the in­ci­dent, said as the moth­er of a 15-year-old boy she felt Ram­jat­tan's pain.

"I know the par­ents are up­set. I know it is a great loss and my heart goes out to this mum­my es­pe­cial­ly," she said.

"I am a mom I will know. I am re­al­ly, re­al­ly sor­ry it had to be like this but I don't know, maybe ac­ci­dents hap­pen, maybe the ba­by turn his head in a spur of the mo­ment. I don't know how to ex­plain this sit­u­a­tion, I am very sor­ry, sor­ry about what hap­pen to this ba­by be­cause I love this lit­tle ba­by."

An emo­tion­al De­onar­i­nesingh, who is called Aun­tie Sue by par­ents, said she and her work­ers were tak­ing care of five oth­er chil­dren be­tween the ages of three months and three years on that day. She re­called that Kris­tiano was "per­fect­ly fine" and in a "good po­si­tion" when she left him sleep­ing on the bed around 1.30 pm. De­onar­i­nesingh said the ba­by was al­ways with­in her eye­sight.

"He small so I placed him in front my eye where we can see him con­stant­ly."

When Ram­jat­tan came she took a pho­to of the ba­by be­fore bend­ing over to pick him up.

"Her back was turned to me. From where I see she bend over all of a sud­den she say 'Oh my God come and see what hap­pen here. You come and see what hap­pen' and she run out the day care.

"My as­sump­tion to this was prob­a­bly some­thing walk­ing on the ba­by or some­thing bite the ba­by be­cause re­mem­ber I take care of this ba­by, I check this ba­by be­fore we start­ed to make bot­tles for the rest of them."

De­onar­i­nesingh said she then went to the ba­by.

"I was like stinky pinky wake up and play­ing with his foot and re­alise no re­sponse from ba­by."She said she then be­gan to pan­ic. De­onar­i­nesingh said she turned the ba­by over and was check­ing for a pulse. On the di­rec­tions of the para­medics via phone, she be­gan per­form­ing CPR on Kris­tiano.

"While I was do­ing this I was get­ting some­thing from the ba­by. Every time I give a breath I was get­ting some­thing like a hic­cup from the ba­by."

Deny­ing the ba­by was stiff and cold when his moth­er ar­rived, she said she would usu­al­ly put ba­bies to sleep on their tum­my.

"I will not put a ba­by flat on the face to sleep," said De­onar­i­nesingh who added: "He (Kris­tiano) has a ten­den­cy to turn his head to suit him­self that is why I check him all the time and make sure I fix his head all the time. To be hon­est I don't know. I hon­est­ly can­not ex­plain what hap­pened."

De­onar­i­nesingh, who al­so lives with her com­mon-law hus­band Ri­az Ali, said she would on­ly con­tin­ue to run the day­care if the par­ents were still com­fort­able leav­ing their chil­dren with her.She re­ceived sup­port from all the par­ents at her home.

Par­ent Suni­ta Dhanes­sar said she had been leav­ing her boys, aged ten and nine, at the day­care for the past ten years. She said De­onar­i­nesingh did a good job and she had no prob­lem with her.

Lit­tle Kris­tiano will be buried un­der Mus­lim rites fol­low­ing a brief ser­vice at his grand­par­ents'home at Per­ry Young Road, In­di­an Walk, Moru­ga, at about 1 pm to­day.