Romeil Delgado, a one-year-old toddler of Paruima Village, Upper Mazuruni village in Region 7, went missing at about 18:00 hrs yesterday (Wednesday, 11th October 2023) at Top Side Paruima Falls.
The toddler’s body was found at about 23:50 hrs last night and fished out of the Kamarang River at ‘Top Side’ Paruima Falls by Brian Chambers, a 51-year-old Farmer and member of the Paruima Community Policing Group.
The body was seen and examined by nurse Verlina Conrado, who observed a piece of his penis missing and suspected to have been bitten by a crab or fish. No other marks of violence were seen on the body. The body of the deceased one-year-old is presently at the Paruima Health Post, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
According to Yasmin Delgado, the 21-year-old mother of Romeil, at about 13:40 hrs yesterday, she and her 22-year-old boyfriend, as well as her 26-year-old brother, went to the Kamarang River to bathe along with five (5) small children, including Romeil Delgado.
Whilst there, Yasmin told her brother to watch over her son, leaving him lying on the sand at the river’s edge while she went to check on her two-year-old daughter, who was sleeping in a hammock about 50 feet away. Yasmin returned to the riverside about five minutes later to check on her son and discovered that he was missing from the Landing.
She enquired about the whereabouts of her son from her brother, who told her he did not see him. She also enquired from her boyfriend if he had seen Romeil, to which he also replied in the negative.
An alarm was raised, and neighbours came out to assist in making checks around the area, but to no avail.
The matter was reported to the police on 2023-10-11 at about 18:20 hours.
Investigation continues.
