NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Back in April, a local mother posted in an anonymous Facebook group looking for childcare.
She connected with a provider in the Carmichael Road area, but, after a June drop-off left her seven-month-old infant D’Angelo Lloyd with severe facial injuries, she spent months turning to police and other authorities with no resolution.
Ahnita Rahming describes the traumatic moment when the person she entrusted with her son’s care contacted her and she realized something was wrong.
Ahnita Rahming – Mother
“She say hey D’Angelo came here with these marks on his face, mind you, at that time, my baby was seven months years old. I said no ma’am, I said, What kind of marks? So I say, Can you switch the call to video call? And she did that. And when she video called me, all I saw was flesh, the marks on his face flesh…”
Rahming says what followed were inconsistent accounts of how those injuries actually occurred.
Ahnita Rahming – Mother
“She sent a message to my son’s father. That she stepped out to go to the start to buy some receipt books. I left him in the care of her assistant at that time. She also sent a separate voice, note saying that she was bathing another child, and she heard my baby crying, and when she went in the room, she met him grabbing up his face.”
Left with unanswered questions and no resolution, she wants her experience to serve as a cautionary lesson for other families.
Ahnita Rahming – Mother
“Take y’all time, find out. I know some persons doesn’t have that full support, a village. So you may need somebody to watch the kids, but please, just take y’all time.
