Sascha Wil­son

Five days af­ter suf­fer­ing se­vere burns af­ter falling in­to a pot of boil­ing lentil peas, a three-year-old girl has died.

Shaz­ade Si­mon suf­fered sec­ond de­gree burns to 25 per­cent of her body, and suc­cumbed on Mon­day at the San Fer­nan­do Teach­ing Hos­pi­tal.

The child's moth­er took her to her grand­fa­ther's stall at Morne Roache Road, Williamsville, around 4:15pm last Wednes­day.

He was at the time boil­ing a pot of lentil peas over a fire crack­er on the ground at the back of the shed. Shaz­ade's aunt Maris­sa Brizan said the child stum­bled and fell in­to the pot. She was im­me­di­ate­ly tak­en out, wrapped in a damp tow­el and rushed to the hos­pi­tal.

Po­lice said she suf­fered burns to her stom­ach and but­tock area.

Brizan said the child seemed to be do­ing well and they be­lieved she would have been dis­charged soon.

Sad­ly, around 1.30 pm on Mon­day she passed away at the hos­pi­tal.

Dis­put­ing so­cial me­dia re­ports, she said it was not a case of neg­li­gence but a trag­ic ac­ci­dent.

Shaz­ade was an on­ly child and was a stu­dent at Mayo Ear­ly Child­hood Care and Ed­u­ca­tion Cen­tre.

Gas­par­il­lo po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.