Cul de Sac:--- The detective department is busy investigating the death of 8 year old Syeisse Fronpton, a student of the Cole Bay Seventh Day Adventist School who died mysteriously at his father's house on Friday morning. According to Syeisse's distraught mother Kenisshea Owens and Donna Allen Syeisse's grandmother they believe that the 8-year old boy was murdered by his father's girlfriend.Owen in an exclusive interview with SMN News said her son went to spend a few days with his father since Tuesday December 28th and he was scheduled to return home on News Years Day. The mother of two said early Friday morning while she was still asleep she received a phone call from her son's father who told her that her child was not feeling well and that he was taking the child to the hospital. Owen said she got up got dressed and was on her way to the hospital as she lives in Cay Hill. "As I was walking to the hospital my son father called me twice saying "Where you be?, Where you be?" but he never told me my son was already dead. When I reached the hospital, Anthony told me Syeisse dead and when I went into the room I saw my son lying on a bed covered with a white sheet. I could not believe he was dead so I asked the doctor if he is dead indeed."
Owen said her son's father told her that when he woke up Friday morning his son woke up and spoke to him. She said the child told his father he was hot as he had plugged out the fan to iron his clothes and he told the child as soon as he was finished ironing he would plug in the fan. "Anthony told me he told Syeisse he was going to work and will be returning late from work. He said about an hour after he left his girl friend called him twice and was not saying anything and then when he told her not to waste his credits as he was on his way to work it was then she told him the child was not breathing."
Owen further explained that about a month ago the child went to spend a few days with his father and when he returned he had finger nail scratches about his body but when she confronted her son father he covered up for his girlfriend. "When I asked my son who scratched him he did not want to talk but he finally told me it was his father's girlfriend and I had stopped sending my son to his father's house because of this incident but my son wanted to go by his father because the father promised him to buy him toys for Christmas if he went to spend time with him. From the time his father told him that, he was asking to go by his father and even though he does not support the child I would always send him to see and be with his father."
Owen said her son's father knows that his girlfriend killed his son but for some reason he is covering up for her. She is therefore calling on the police to arrest the woman who is of Spanish decent before she leaves the island.
Donna Allen the grandmother of Syeisse said the boy's father took her daughter's passport and burnt it and police did nothing for the lack of evidence. She said once her daughter called her and asked her to pick up the child from his father's house because the child was left alone at home."I am concerned that this woman would escape the hands of justice and while I know police have to investigate I know my grandson was not sick and he was smart. If he was not feeling well he would have told his father when he woke up Friday morning." The grandmother said he is more suspicious of the mysterious death because the child wet his bed before he died and the father's girlfriend tampered with the crime scene as she had already removed the sheet that was covering the child and replaced it with a think spread.
Press prosecutor Rienk Mud said the body of Syeisse Fronpthon has been confiscated for an autopsy. Mud said the police are on top of the case. However, he warned that people should not jump to conclusions and say the child was murdered. "I do understand they are grieving but they should not jump to conclusions and accuse people of murder. The police are on top of this case and they should wait until the autopsy is conducted and police know more." Mud said.
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