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Saturday, June 28, 2025

Mother of murdered child says father was abusive, violent

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Akash Samaroo
1965 days ago
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 Makeisha Maynard, 8, pictured with her father Michael Maynard

Makeisha Maynard, 8, pictured with her father Michael Maynard

Mayso­nia Thomas, the moth­er of 8-year-old Makeisha May­nard who was al­leged­ly killed by her fa­ther, Michael May­nard this morn­ing be­fore he took his own life, said May­nard was an abuser and threat­ened her life on sev­er­al oc­ca­sions.

Speak­ing to re­porters out­side of the Foren­sics Sci­ences Cen­tre in St James, Thomas said Makeisha was not autis­tic as was pre­vi­ous­ly re­port­ed but rather had a learn­ing dis­abil­i­ty brought on af­ter she was abused by Michael May­nard when she was less than one week old.

“Makeisha is not an autis­tic child, she’s a slow child in the sense that when she was 6 days old while he was beat­ing me, he slapped Makeisha in her face and that gave her brain dam­age so she can­not write.”

Thomas said she’s been hid­ing from Michael for over a year now and showed us scars she re­ceived from stab wounds she al­leged­ly re­ceived from May­nard.

Thomas said a year ago, Michael took the chil­dren from their step­fa­ther and kept them at the home of his moth­er, the chil­dren’s grand­moth­er. Thomas said she was in the process of build­ing her home and that’s why she al­lowed the chil­dren to stay in the cus­tody of the grand­moth­er. She al­so said she could not take back cus­tody of the chil­dren be­cause May­nard was very vi­o­lent and she was afraid.

“I know if I go for them he will come for me, he used to stay if he can’t have me no­body else will. That’s why I left them with the grand­moth­er, not the fa­ther, I did not know he took them.”

She said when any oth­er rel­a­tive at­tempts to take the chil­dren from him he gets very ag­gres­sive.

“He fight­ing moth­er, he fight­ing sis­ter he fight­ing every­one.”

Mayso­nia Thomas said re­ports of his abuse were made to the Mor­vant and Ca­roni Po­lice Sta­tions but no ar­rests were made.


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