The fa­ther of 11-year-old Adri­ana Younge who was found dead in the pool of the Dou­ble Day Ho­tel at Tuschen is plead­ing for peace and an end to vi­o­lence in wake of wide­spread fiery protests that es­ca­lat­ed last evening af­ter the re­sults of her post mortem ex­am­i­na­tion re­vealed that she died by drown­ing.

The fa­ther, Sub­rayn Younge, in a so­cial me­dia post this morn­ing said the fam­i­ly was told that his daugh­ter died by drown­ing, but that oth­er tests will be done on sam­ples tak­en from her lungs.

He said his daugh­ter was not a vi­o­lent per­son and would not have ap­proved of the acts of vi­o­lence tak­ing place as part of protests in her name.

Every­body out there, who say they love Adri­ana and want to be there for Adri­ana, Adri­ana wouldn’t like vi­o­lence. I am telling y’all that straight from me heart, and in me heart, Adri­ana don’t like vi­o­lence. Adri­ana is not a vi­o­lent girl, so please if y’all love me daugh­ter, y’all stop the vi­o­lence. If y’all protest­ing, protest in a nor­mal way, please”, the fa­ther plead­ed.

On Mon­day, Adri­ana Younge’s body un­der­went more than four hours of med­ical ex­am­i­na­tion as part of an au­top­sy. The fa­ther said that was one of the most dif­fi­cult days in his life as he sat and wait­ed for the post-mortem re­sults, which he was told re­vealed that she died by drown­ing.

“They say she had wa­ter in her lungs and they have to send it out to some­where to get test­ed and I don’t know when is it that it will be com­ing back or when it is that it will be back, and when I hear all of those things yes­ter­day, I could have lose my mind”, he said.

Adri­ana was re­port­ed miss­ing at the Dou­ble Day Ho­tel in Tuschen last Wednes­day while on an out­ing with fam­i­ly mem­bers. She was re­port­ed miss­ing the same day and the fam­i­ly said sev­er­al search­es of the pool came up emp­ty hand­ed. How­ev­er, the Po­lice is­sued a state­ment claim­ing that the girl was cap­tured on cam­era leav­ing the ho­tel in a car. That po­lice state­ment turned out to be false, trig­ger­ing protests out­side the ho­tel and calls for a full sweep of the prop­er­ty.

It was on the fol­low­ing day as large crowds gath­ered out­side the ho­tel, that the child’s body was spot­ted float­ing in the pool. The dis­cov­ery re­sult­ed in a large protest at the ho­tel and it be­ing set on fire. The ho­tel was com­plete­ly gut­ted. It’s own­er and staff mem­bers were ques­tioned about the child’s dis­ap­pear­ance. The Po­lice has al­so come un­der in­tense scruti­ny over its ini­tial re­sponse to the miss­ing per­son’s re­port.

By News Source Guyana on April 29, 2025