Relatives insist Mercy is alive and well

“They say they have evidence but, tell me, even a baby this size (measuring by length on her hand) or even a smaller baby, wouldn’t that kick up a stink?” she asked.

“Do you find that story to have any cohesion? They (public) have been trying us in the public domain, in the press and in the social media but the truth will come out eventually.” Richins said baby Mercy was her biological daughter and not her daughter’s child.

Richins complained of what she described as inhumane treatment meted out to them while in custody at the La Brea Police Station.

“We weren’t allowed to see anyone, we were kept in a room with the air condition unit turned up high, we were freezing, water running all under your feet” she went on to say.

“When they turned it down you feeling like you thawing out, it was not a nice experience, but I will tell all soon.” She said she and her children were kept apart during their days in custody. It is not until they were taking away the minors who wanted to see her was she told that they were going to relatives.

“I was in a separate room to my mother,” Nicolette told Newsday.

Richins said she no longer cares about the perception persons have of her and wanted it made clear that neither she nor her daughter are mad.

“Everyone thinks we are mad people but that is not so. Let us see where this will go. They have not charged us for anything. We are still here.” An autopsy performed last Friday at the Forensic Science Centre, St James revealed that the cause of death was inconclusive.

Investigations are continuing.