Children’s Registrar, Greig Smith, says the death of three children in a fire this morning in Negril, Westmoreland resulted from the ‘reckless behaviour of the very person responsible for their care and protection’.
The children – two girls and one boy – were aged 14, 11 and 8.
Mr. Smith – who was on the scene while the bodies were being removed to the morgue – has described their death as ‘extremely sad’.
He says the ‘careless practice’ of leaving children home alone needs to stop.
Reports are that around 6:35, the Negril Fire Department responded to a call that a two bedroom house was ablaze.
Head of the Westmoreland Fire Division, Senior Deputy Superintendent Morine Thompson, says the bodies of the children were discovered inside a bathtub.
DSP Thompson says the children’s guardians left the house shortly before the blaze started.
Morine Thompson, Head of the Westmoreland Fire Division, speaking with Nationwide News.
