Fix it now, SCJ!
BAMBURY, Westmoreland
Pastor Kevin Waite of the Bambury Weslyian Holiness Church on Sunday blasted the Frome division of the Sugar Estate of Jamaica, for their handling of the abandoned farm house buildings suspected of providing a sanctuary for the murderer of 11-year-old Christopher Levi Suckra.
Suckra, who used to be a grade 7 student of the Petersfield High School, was discovered naked and mutilated in a canefield in Bambury last week.
It is suspected that his attacker buggered him.
According to the boy’s mother, Keturah Bennett, a man who appeared to be of unsound mind had run out at her from an abandoned sugar estate farm house near to where the boy’s corpse was discovered, the day before. However she managed to pedal to safety on her bicycle.
“We need to appeal to the relevant authorities to do something about them (dilapidated farm houses). We know that these premises are owned by the Sugar Company of Jamaica- Frome to be exact. And they are not being used for years now and canefields both sides of the road-it is really something to contend with,” said Waite.
Pastor Waite said that from information gleaned, clothes and items “to indicate that some cooking was going on” were found in the ruined farm house that Suckra’s attacker suspectedly occupied.
He advised the congregation to exercise caution on their way through the canefields.
“We are very saddened about what happened to one of our own but we must leave everything in the hands of God. I know that some of you are afraid to walk through some of those canefields but I want to appeal to you whenever you are going don’t go alone try to get a group of you to go because we have to be very careful,” he said. Sukra and his family who used to attend the church religiously were conspicuously absent on Sunday.
However the church went to vist them after the service.
Meanwhile, efforts to reach Sugar Company of Jamaica vice-president Aston Smith have proved unsuccessful.
Telephone calls to Frome estate revealed that he would not be in for the day.
Calls to his cellular phone went to his voicemail.
