Pointe Blanche/Cay Hill:--- The parents of baby Jariska Porchette are calling on the owner and caregivers at the Jack and Jill Day Care Centre in Pointe Blanche to come clean and tell them exactly what happened to their six month old daughter on Friday.Soranyi and Jiffaund Porchette said that their six month old daughter has two broken legs and is currently a patient at the St. Maarten Medical Center and the caregivers at Jack Jill Dare Care still cannot tell them how their daughter's legs got broken.
Soranyi said that when she went to pick up her baby around 5:30pm on Friday afternoon, the first thing she was told is that her baby is a coward. She said when she arrived at the school the caregiver had her baby in her hands and she said "your daughter is a coward, I could not understand why she said that because my daughter is a very social baby. When I tried to take my baby from her, I saw she was holding on to her (the caregiver) very tightly and she was perspiring. I asked the teacher what is wrong with Jariska and she said that maybe she wants to sleep. I eventually got my baby from her and when she got into my arms she also held on to me tightly, but when I put her in her seat in the car she began crying," Soranyi said. The young mother said when she got home which is next door to the play school she tried to feed her baby and even tried to put her to sleep but she would not let go of her and she was perspiring very much. Soranyi said she is a student at USM and she had homework to complete while having an examination that same day so she left her baby with her husband and went to school. She said while in school she noticed that her husband tried calling her but her phone was on silent. "When I saw it was my husband who was calling me I called him back and he told me that our daughter was acting strangely and she was even trembling. I hurried home and again we called the owner and caregiver of Jack and Jill and they kept saying nothing is wrong with Jariska and that the teacher must have played a little too rough with her. The teacher told me that she was throwing my daughter up and she got scared and began to cry and that is why she said that my baby was a coward."
Jiffaund said while his wife was in school he called his mother and he told her that his daughter was acting strangely and his mother told him to bring the baby over so she could pray with her. He said that when he took his baby to his mother she saw the child was perspiring and she decided that she will give her a sponge bath and will examine the baby to see if she was injured. "It was while my mom was checking her she realised when she touched her left leg she would scream, closer inspection of the leg revealed that there was a slight mark and the leg was swollen. When my mother saw that, she instructed us to take the baby to the emergency room. At the St. Maarten Medical Center, an x-ray was performed on my daughter and the doctors saw that both her legs are broken. Baby Jariska may have to spend the next two to three weeks at the St. Maarten Medical Center." Jiffaund and his wife said they called the owner and caregiver of Jack Jill Day Care Center that night and they maintained that nothing went wrong at the school. He said he needs to know who intentionally broke his daughter's legs because the surgeon at the St. Maarten Medical Center told them that even if the child had fallen from a two storey building, her legs could not have broken the way it did. "Both my daughter legs are broken almost at the same location. It appears as though someone pressed on both her legs and broke it and the only people who can tell us who did it are the care givers at the school. Jiffaund and his wife Soranyi already filed a complaint with the detective department. Their intention is to visit the Court of Guardianship, Youth Health and Welfare and the Prosecutors Office on Monday as they seek justice and answers from Jack and Jill Day Care Center.
