The mother of a three-year-old girl who perished in a house fire on Sunday yesterday ignored social media critics for leaving a 14-year-old in charge of five children.
Abigaile Mota said if the police must charge her in relation to the child’s death, then so be it.
Little Tyran Garcia died from smoke inhalation at her Herman Gerard Avenue, Malabar home. Her siblings managed to run out of the house to safety after a mattress caught fire.
Responding to allegations that she is an unfit mother, Mota, 37 said people are saying whatever they wanted to say.
In a four-minute long telephone interview Mota said she had nothing to say to her accusers.
“I have nothing to say about that. For people to say anything they have to know what they saying,” Mota said adding that she was “running up and down dealing with the funeral”.
“I regret not being home because at the end of the day I lost a child,” she said.
On Sunday, the child’s father, Terron Garcia, said he had begged Mota for custody of the child but he was denied and at one point contemplated taking the matter to Family Court but later decided against it.
Asked about the father’s desire to raise his child Mota said she does not regret that decision.
“For what? Why would I regret that decision, I will never regret my child being home with me than being with her father,” adding that there were other issues at hand that she did not want to disclose.
Mota said her other five children who lived with her are staying by friends and family. Relatives said Tyran will be buried tomorrow following a church service at The Church of the Incarnation, Maloney.
Mota and the child’s stepfather Terrance Wilson, were questioned by police on Tuesday for close to two hours before being released. Wilson was at work when he got the news of the fire.
Police said that some of the information they were receiving were “not adding up” and they wanted to speak to the children and adults again.
