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Mother Of Four Year Old Accident Victim Speaks Out, In Rage
Thu, December 5, 2013
Last night, 7News told you about the terrible accident which claimed the life 4 year-old Jahston Terry on cemetery Road in Belize City. The child was going home from school when he was run over and killed on the sidewalk by an out of control BDF driver. The driver of the vehicle 36 year-old Hubert Anthony Martinez, is prison tonight, but that is no consolation to his grieving family.

Today, 7News got a chance to speak with the boy's mother, and like those who were on the scene yesterday, she is beside herself with anger. She told us that it was too painful for her to watch the post-mortem of her baby boy, who she remembered kissing good bye yesterday before he left for school. Here's her story:

Keisha Terry, Mother of Deceased
"I was at work about 4:30 and I got a call from an unknown number. The person call and told me to come quick because something happen to my son. I ask her to tell me what happen and the person hangs up. My friend Ms. Jackie Franklin call back the number and the person explained to her that an accident happened to Cemetery Road which involved my two kids; one dead and the other got hurt. I can just remember that I passed out on my work floor in tears crying. My cousin can explain what happen on the scene because I didn't go on the scene."

"My older son Jaheem Terry, explained to me that they were walking while waiting for the bus and he had the baby held tight in his hands and it happen so quick that the vehicle just grab the baby away and he couldn't do anything."

"People on the scene say that he (Jaheem Terry) drop down and was crying for help. I know that he has a broken ankle. That's much that I can say. My cousin was on the scene and she can explain exactly what she saw. I haven't seen my baby yet, not his face or anything."

"I don't know how I feel because it's my sons. It could have been the two of them dead. I just feel hurt, I feel mad and I wish I could just kill that driver. I am sorry to say it like that, but that is how I personally feel because what the hell is he doing on the sidewalk? My kids were on the sidewalk. It not like if they were playing on the street or anything. I just wish that they charge him to the fullest of the law. It cannot bring back my baby but he doesn't know what my family and I are going through right now."

"The last time I saw my baby was yesterday morning like 8:10 before I dropped him off at school. He ran to me and told me 'mommy I love you' and I hugged him and kissed him. He asked me to please bring a Spiderman truck that he wanted for Christmas, to bring it to school. That was the last time I saw my baby. I told me bye, later and mommy loves you."

Keisha Terry told us finally that there have been those who have been unfair to her calling her a negligent mother. She told us she is hard-working, and that both of her children were to wait on a relative who would ensure that they got home safely. That relative, according to Terry, was just a short distance away when the accident happened.

This afternoon, Hubert Anthony Martinez, a BDF Civilian driver, was taken and arraigned before Magistrate Hettie Mae Stewart on charges of manslaughter by negligence, causing death by careless conduct, negligent wounding, driving a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration above the prescribed limit, and driving without due care and attention. Due to the nature of the offences, Magistrate Stewart denied bail, despite his pleas the sole breadwinner for his family, and remanded him to prison until January 7, 2014, his next court date.

Today, the National Committee for Families and Children sent out a release lamenting the passing of Jahston Terry, and the organization also reminded that motorists to be responsible drivers, especially in locations like the one where the child lost his life.

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