My daughter didn’t commit suicide, says mother after 10-year-old found hanged from rafters. Durban – The mother of a 10-year-old girl who was found dead has denied her child committed suicide.
Last Friday, the body of Reneece Parasuramen, of Stonebridge in Phoenix, was found hanging from a rafter in the roof. Around her neck was her mother’s Punjabi scarf.
Her mother, Ronelle Parasuramen, 32, does not believe her child killed herself. She thinks her little girl was playing and did not realise the danger she was exposed to.
According to Parasuramen, Reneece and her sister, Ranae Naidoo, generally went to a day-care centre while she and her husband were at work.
Parasuramen works as a call centre agent in uMhlanga, while her husband, Ronaldo Naidoo, 35, is a welder.
According to Parasuramen, on Friday, she decided not to send the girls to day care. Reneece was asthmatic, and because she had gotten wet in the rain the day before, Parasuramen decided to keep both girls at home.
She said her neighbour, Anita Jagathpal, agreed to watch out for the girls.
“I gave her the keys to my house and asked her to check on them every now and then. I made them enough food to last until my husband and I came back. I gave them a bath and then left for work at about 6.30am.”
“Reneece went upstairs to wave goodbye to me as I left. However, I did not look back because I knew I’d see my baby when I got back from work. Never did I think it would be the last time I would hear her voice.”
Exactly what happened next is not known. But, shortly after midday, Jagathpal’s husband, Ajith, went outside to do his prayer when he saw Ranae crying near the window.
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He initially called for Reneece, but when she did not respond, he went inside to investigate. In the parent’s bedroom, he found Reneece’s body hanging from a rafter in the ceiling.
He raised the alarm, but when the paramedics and the police arrived, the little girl was already dead.
Lieutenant Colonel Nqobile Gwala, a provincial police spokesperson, said an inquest docket was opened by Phoenix SAPS.
“The circumstances surrounding the incident are being investigated,” she said.
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