Leashay Thomas who was brutally murdered by the father
Some residents of Flower Hill in this western parish openly
expressed their anger yesterday when they learnt that a three-year-old
girl from the community was found dead and her father was being sought
by the police, Jamaica Observer reports.
Police said that the body of the little girl, Leashay Thomas, was
found early in the morning on the popular Dump Up Beach, hours after
receiving a distress call from a relative of the child.
The police revealed that on Monday night, a man, purporting to be
the father of the child, called a family member to say that he was going
to commit suicide as he had killed Leashay and threw her body in the
sea at the popular Montego Bay beach, Jamaica.
A police spokesman said shortly after officers were dispatched to
the beach to investigate the report but returned to their base after
coming up ‘empty-handed’ after an extensive search of the shoreline.
However, upon their return to the area yesterday morning they spotted
the body of a child which was subsequently fished from the sea. It was
later identified as that of Leashay. They were yesterday awaiting the
results of a post mortem to determine the cause of the little girl’s
death.
Police last night appealed for the public’s assistance in finding
the whereabouts of the child’s father, Roosevelt Thomas, alias ‘Timmy’,
whom they said could assist them with the investigations. Police alleged
that Thomas, a resident of Flanker in the parish, took Leashay from her
home in Flower Hill on Monday evening.
They said the death of the little girl was being treated as an infanticide, until proven otherwise.
Meanwhile, there was a sombre mood yesterday at the Salt Spring
Primary and Infant School where Leashay was a student. She was described
by her teacher, Zena Bailey, as a jovial individual.
“She is always playing and smiling. She is full of life and to
see her gone at this stage of her life is really sad. It is really sad,”
the distraught teacher said.
“I am going to miss her and I pray that the family of Leashay
will get through this. We need to support them. Leashay was very bright
little child. [She was] bubbly, playful [and] a little mischievous at
times, but that’s how children are. I love her and it is really sad.”
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