A 28-year-old Lovettee Saytue, popularly known as “Darling Girl,” has died after reportedly falling into a 25-foot deep well.
The incident is reported in the New Location Community, Gbeapo Kanweaken, River Gee County.
It was on Saturday, November 7, and the body was recovered the next day (Sunday) when the locals mounted vigorous search.
The deceased’s mother, Madam Felecia Tarpeh, confirmed Lovettee’s death.
Madam Tarpeh: “On Saturday morning, I asked Lovettee, and my other children to accompany me into the bush to collect firewood, but Lovettee reportedly declined on grounds that she intended to wash her clothes. On that, I subsequently left her, and went into the bush with the other children.”
She recalled how upon her return, she did not find Lovetee in the house, or around the yard.”
“I made inquiries from Lovettee’s friends, and neighbors, but received no information about her whereabout, until she was found in a nearby well already dead.”
The County Coroner, Derrick P. Keah,
accompanied by police officer Jallah Weah, visited the scene, and concluded that Lovetee died from “drowning.”
The jurors also reported that there were no signs of foul play, or evidence that the body had been tampered with.
The deceased had lived with epilepsy, a sickness that was said to have thrown her in the well.
