Relatives believe the delinquency of her baby’s father and hard times triggered the mental breakdown which led to 22-year-old Shaneka McCalla allegedly stabbing her 13-month-old baby to death on Tuesday. McCalla, for whom the St Elizabeth police have requested a psychiatric evaluation, remained in custody yesterday. The baby, McCalla’s second child, was pronounced dead at hospital on Tuesday afternoon after being stabbed, apparently with a kitchen knife, at her home in Lewis Town, just outside Brompton in South West St Elizabeth. When the Jamaica Observer visited yesterday, Agatha Gayle, an elderly grand-aunt with whom McCalla had lived since she was three years old, told how she first became aware of the tragedy when her grandniece came into the house and announced she had killed her baby, affectionately called ‘Angel’. “She come een with her hand on her head and she say ‘Mama… Mama mi kill Angel (baby’s pet name),” said Gayle, her voice breaking with grief. Alarmed, Gayle said she cried out, “Move from side a mi!”. But then she grabbed her walking stick and hobbled to the back of the house where she found the baby covered in blood, lying face down in an old building which had been converted from an “outside kitchen” to a washroom. Gayle, who suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes, cried out for help and neighbours quickly converged. The baby, still breathing, was rushed to hospital, to no avail. Gayle, too, had to be taken to the doctor — her blood pressure having risen dangerously. Yesterday, Gayle made it very clear she thought the negligence of the baby’s father drove her grandniece over the edge. “From di baby born the father don’t buy her not even a tin of feedin’… every time mi call im, ‘im say yes grandma, weekend; and all now weekend can’t come yet,” she complained. Watched by McCalla’s four-year-old daughter who sat quietly, wide-eyed, Gayle said her grandniece had become increasingly depressed in recent times apparently because of her dependence on her grandaunt and the unwillingness of her baby’s father to give meaningful help. Gayle alleged that all that had been received from time to time from the baby’s father was “two pampers”.
Gayle said that shortly before the baby’s death, a neighbour had seen McCalla sitting under a tree crying. “Him (neighbour) say to her ‘what happen to you’ and she don’t answer… maybe if she did just talk, this wouldn’t happen,” the grieving grandaunt said.
Gayle suggested that from time to time, down the years, her grandniece had been extremely vulnerable to stress. She recalled that at times the young woman had been known to say “mi feel like mi woulda just heng mi self…” On such occasions, she said, she would strongly rebuke her grandniece but she never imagined the catastrophe to come. Yesterday, clinical psychologist Dr Kai Morgan said while mother/child infanticide was rare, stress and depression often led to child abuse and in extreme cases to tragedy, such as occurred at Lewis Town. “Stress-related frustration may cause them (stressed out parents) to shake the child, physically abuse the child, scream at the child,” she said. Morgan said neighbours and relatives should never ignore “warning signs”, including drastic changes in behaviour, extreme gloominess and threats. “These should never be taken lightly, there should always be an attempt to get professional help through counselling,” she said. Gayle said while she was aware her grandniece had seen a doctor on occasions, she was not aware she had ever seen a mental health specialist.

Gayle said issues such as that McCalla had never met her father who migrated when she was nine days old and from whom she received very little material support had added to her problems. “Sometime she say she woulda like fi know her father, is a whole heap a mix-up deh pon her,” said Gayle. McCalla’s stepfather, Livingston Watson, who went to the police station after being called to the scene of the tragedy, said his stepdaughter appeared to have lost all sense of reality. “She nervous like leaf pon tree… mi a sey ‘Shaneka, why you do that?’, all she say, ‘Daddy, mi nuh know, mi nuh know’, only dat mi a get from her,” said Watson, who along with McCalla’s mother lives in Shrewsbury, just a few miles from Lewis Town. He claimed that McCalla also urged him to make sure the baby was alright and asked the police to allow her to go home so she could suckle her baby. “So you see, she nuh know what she do,” Watson said. He also rejected suggestions that McCalla was a “wicked” or uncaring mother. “Shaneka love her baby, love her kids dem,” he said. “Is just something go wrong wid her,” he said. He, too, suggested that the alleged delinquency of the child’s father played a contributing role.

Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Mom-accused-of-killing-baby-suffered-heavy-stress_13691883#ixzz2LcRejRya

– Normal activities were disrupted in Gitothu market center, Ruiru after a man suspected to have stolen a cow belonging to one of the neighbors was arrested by the police and frog-matched through the whole village.

It is said that Samuel Saikan Lolonken who was suspected to be behind a number of theft incidences, stole the cow worth Sh75, 000 from Mary Nyambura Ng’ang’a at Gitothu village last week.

According to Nyambura, she woke up early morning on the 16th to check on her cow only to find it missing. She reported the matter to the village elders who launched a search mission.
The cow was found locked at the accused’s bedroom. Police arrested the suspect as he tried to escape.

Acting senior resident magistrate Wesley Cheruiyot treated him as a first time offender and sentenced him to 15 months in jail. He was given 14 days to appeal.

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Our Proper Response To Suffering Helps Others

It is said that “no man is an island.” For Christians, this is certainly true. Remember 1 Peter 5:9, which says that your brothers and sisters in the Lord are faced with the same sufferings you are? That is why we can help one another if we deal with Satan’s tests in a godly manner. This fact should be added incentive for us to do so. The following verses aptly express this truth:

2 Corinthians 1:3-7
(3) Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,
(4) Who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
(5) For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.
(6) If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer.
(7) And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort.

Obstacles are opportunities for growth. Verse five shows that the bigger the obstacle, the more comfort, strength and wisdom the Lord will give you to help you deal with it. Once you are on the other side of the challenge, you get to keep all that you learned and gained in the experience. Thus you have experienced “growth.”

2 Corinthians 1:5 (above) speaks of “the sufferings of Christ flowing over into our lives.” This is one of several passages of Scripture that touch upon a Christian’s identification with the sufferings of his Savior. Here are some others:

Colossians 1:24
Now I rejoice in what was suffered for you, and I fill up [complete] in my flesh what is still lacking in regard to Christ’s afflictions, for the sake of his body, which is the church.

Philippians 3:10
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Although we may not understand it all, “the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings” somehow enables us to be a part of Christ’s redemptive ministry, and it benefits others, as did his suffering. If you look back to 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (above), you can see this truth.

Verse 5 says that though the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, “so also through Christ our comfort overflows.” Why? Because, as Hebrews 4:15 states, we do not have a Lord “who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are— yet without sin.”

When properly understood from Scripture, the magnitude of Jesus’ sufferings— physical and emotional— far exceeds what most Christians will have to endure. Let us remember that he basically suffered alone, in terms of human companionship. He knows that companionship is vital for suffering people, and he will always be with us, no matter what our circumstances. “Because he himself suffered when he was tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted” (Heb. 2:18). That is why each of us should “approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need” (Heb. 4:16).

Certainly the Apostle Paul’s ability to deal with all that he suffered (see 2 Corinthians 11:23ff) was in large part due to his comprehending the truths that he himself would later set forth in Scripture. Paul fully realized, even while alone in his sufferings, that how he responded would affect the lives of many other Christians. We too can be motivated to faithfulness by this same truth. No Christian is “the Lone Ranger.” There is comfort and strength in standing shoulder-to-shoulder in battle and supporting one another in times of suffering, because your example of resolute faith and joy can encourage others, and vice versa. Here we are talking about what we like to call “the camaraderie of the committed,” one of the true joys of life.

Furthermore, suffering can actually contribute to the hope of Paradise being magnified in our hearts. As Rice says:

Suffering reminds us that something is drastically wrong with our present situation…One effect of sin is our tendency to find satisfaction in things of less than ultimate value. We are in constant danger of becoming so comfortable with the temporal material things that we lose sight of the eternal. Suffering jolts us into realizing that our destiny lies beyond this world. [1]

God promises us that He will strengthen us in time of trouble, and one day by His power and grace glorify Himself in us in the age to come. At the bottom line of life’s balance sheet is our hope of everlasting life, guaranteed to each Christian by the gift of holy spirit.

Romans 5:1-5
(1) Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
(2) Through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
(3) Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
(4) Perseverance, character [dokime— what is produced by passing the test]; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his
(5) Love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom [holy spirit which] he has given us.

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