A 2-year old child survives for 10 days alongside her mother murdered

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Saturday, 29 July, 2017 18:17

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OTTAWA | A boy of 2 years old of Ottawa has managed to survive for 10 days in the apartment of his mother who had been killed, reported Saturday the “Ottawa Citizen”.

The child stood beside the remains of his mother from 35 years, in the apartment located on the fifth floor of a building with rents a small neighborhood Mechanicsville.

According to the daily newspaper of the federal capital, the authorities hurried on the place have been surprised by the survival instinct of the young boy, who was not in a worse position than we could believe after such a long wait at such a young age.

It was during a routine inspection on the fire alarm last march 22, that it was discovered the child by its mother’s side died around march 12. The apartment door was not locked, and a neighbor testified after the fact that she had heard screams on the 11th of march in the apartment of the victim before someone ran away down the stairs.

In the following days, she says she noticed an abnormal silence in her neighbor, and she never heard the child cry. She believes that it was able to survive through his resourcefulness, because he knew how to take of the food in the fridge and even put the tv on.

Suspicious death

From the start, the death of the mother, whose identity has not been revealed due to a publication ban, has been considered as a suspect. After taking into account all the results of the autopsy, the Ottawa police have arrested on Thursday a dealer of crack cocaine, 31-year-old, Mohamad S. Barkhadle, who will have to answer to a charge of first-degree murder.