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By Leon Suseran
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Significant changes have taken place for little Lalita Yudharam since this
Yudharam with two of his children
newspaper last reported on the situation involving her alcoholic mother and her father?s struggle to care for her [Lalita] while facing daily abuse from his wife.
Seeram Yudharam, 33, a cane harvester attached to the Rose Hall Estate, and of Lot 8 Lonsdale Village, East Bank Berbice, a few weeks ago, decided to speak out about the daily harassment he endured in his home.
However, he was more concerned about the daily traumas being experienced by his three children, and more particularly his 14-month-old baby, who was not being cared for properly since the mother was an alcoholic and would wander the streets looking for alcohol, with the child in her possession.
The couple shared a tumultuous relationship and he, Seeram, was left alone on most occasions to fend for himself and the family and most importantly, care for his 14- month- old daughter who recently had a cleft- palate surgery performed. The child is due very soon for a follow- up surgery in Georgetown.
The relevant authorities from the Ministry of Social Services began to deal more seriously with the matter. The Probation and Welfare Services in New Amsterdam summoned the couple to its offices and attempted to resolve the issue.
In the end, they deemed the mother unfit to care for the baby and the child and other two children were left in their father?s care.
Kaieteur News recently caught up with Yudharam at his home. He had just come from work and was washing some clothes in their one- flat home. His common- law wife of eight years, Kumarie ?Finey? Samlall, left the home and the children just a few days after the ruling by the Probation services.
Life is much easier for Yudharam. He explained that after the decision was made by the Probation department, the police came and ensured that she left the house.
But a few days earlier, he had to endure his last bout of abuse and torment, since she was on a drinking spree. ?But I didn?t bother with her and the following day, I took a car from Lonsdale and paid the car man and he took her in town [Georgetown] and her brother went there and took her to Essequibo?.
It was hardly any good- bye, he related, as the woman did not reach out to her children nor did she say a word of goodbye to them. ?She didn?t tell the kids nothing; like she grieve and go away. She ain?t kiss them or do anything with the baby?.she just walked out straight and go out to the car, she never watched back or raise her hand to the kids?.
He said that when she reached Essequibo, ?she just ring me phone and tell me she reach and cut off the phone?.
Her last whereabouts suggest that she is staying at her mother in Essequibo.
?Since she gone at she mommy, me deh at more ease now; me ain?t got no problem. When I come from work, I just cook for my kids them and look after them and do my work for the kids them and suh?.
Yudharam washing clothes
A baby- sitter now cares for little Lalita from 5:30 in the morning to 6:30 pm in the evening. The woman, who hails from the neighbouring Sisters? Village, went to the Probation department, agreed to the job and signed some documents. Yudharam pays $4,000 per week to the baby sitter, an amount set by the probation services.
?Morning time when I left to go to work, my neighbour?s son does take my baby and take her to the babysitter and leave her there?. His other children, Natesha and Terrence attend the Sisters? Primary and Nursery School respectively.
As Mother?s Day approaches, the Yudharam kids will be without their mother for the first time in many years. However, as is the case in many instances, their father is the one performing the role of the mother in the home and they might as well honour him this Mother?s Day, by saying ?Happy Mother?s Day, dad?.
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