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Thursday, July 24, 2025

Counselling for traumatised teen who found grandma’s body

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1189 days ago
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kevon.felmine@guardian.co.tt

Re­call­ing that her last mo­ment with her grand­moth­er was a walk to her school bus, a 13-year-old girl says find­ing Si­ta Jages­sar’s corpse was the most shock­ing ex­pe­ri­ence of her short life.

The teenag­er said on Thurs­day she was ex­cit­ed to re­turn to school in Pe­nal on Tues­day, but had stayed away for the past two days af­ter some­one bru­tal­ly bat­tered Jages­sar’s face at their fam­i­ly home along Clarkia Dri­ve, Debe.

“I felt sad and shocked. I nev­er ex­pect­ed to ex­pe­ri­ence this in my life,” the teen said.

She added: “It’s the most shock­ing thing.”

She told Guardian Me­dia that she could not stay in the house and on­ly vis­it­ed on Thurs­day as her fa­ther, Rishi Per­sad, cleaned.

A re­port stat­ed that around 3.45 pm on Tues­day, Bar­rack­pore po­lice re­spond­ed to a re­port of a homi­cide and no­ticed Jages­sar ly­ing on her liv­ing room floor. She had wounds on her face re­sem­bling chops.

The teenag­er said on Tues­day morn­ing, she and Jages­sar went to pur­chase a news­pa­per near­by as she pre­pared to go off to school. Jages­sar then dropped her off at her stop to board the school bus. She got home around 3.45 that af­ter­noon, just ahead of her aunt Melis­sa re­turn­ing from the hos­pi­tal. Melis­sa went to her apart­ment at the side of the house, un­aware of the hor­ror a few me­ters away.

Af­ter find­ing the body, the teen ran across to Melis­sa’s apart­ment to tell her what she had seen. They both ran fran­ti­cal­ly to the neigh­bour’s home.
 Per­sad said his daugh­ter now has to un­der­go coun­selling, which the po­lice of­fer. He said that Jages­sar, a moth­er of five and grand­moth­er of five, was home alone as every­one else went to work and school. He said it ap­peared that some­one beat her head in with a blunt ob­ject. By the time his daugh­ter reached home, it was too late for any­one to help.

“My wife called me. She said some­body killed her moth­er. I work in Wood­land, so I left and came right away. All I saw was just her on the ground with her head mashed up and blood all over,” Per­sad re­called.

Noth­ing was miss­ing at the house and Per­sad said it did not ap­pear any­one broke in. The front gate would usu­al­ly be closed but he said when his daugh­ter and Melis­sa got back, they met it open. He could not sur­mise if some­one Jages­sar knew got in and killed her, on­ly sup­pos­ing that she took her usu­al trip to play Play Whe and left the gate open on re­turn­ing home.

Per­sad said no one threat­ened Jages­sar and she did not have any quar­rels with any­one as she was al­ways hum­ble. He said Jages­sar was close with every­one in the fam­i­ly.

Af­ter read­ing about the nu­mer­ous mur­ders over the week­end, Per­sad said he felt that the coun­try was un­safe but nev­er ex­pect­ed it to reach his doorstep. He said the com­mu­ni­ty was qui­et and no one fought or quar­relled with each oth­er.


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