BABY DIED AMID PROTEST CHAOS

H. Valley ‘road closures’ meant ill newborn couldn't get help in time

- BY KIM SWARTZ

A MONTH-OLD baby’s life was cut short following a chaotic protest that broke out in Happy Valley on Monday.

The protest, which saw four people arrested, prevented the newborn’s parents from taking her to a hospital.

Mother Jasmine Joseph, 37, said that she woke up after 5am on Monday, but little MayLynn was unresponsive and did not want to feed.

Joseph told the Daily Voice that after realising that they would not be able to get the ambulance to her home in Happy Valley due to the protest, she and MayLynn’s daddy, Manuel, decided to walk to the police station.

“We were held hostage, no one was allowed to come and no one was allowed to go out,” Joseph explained.

“I felt like I was failed by this protest that turned chaotic and also by police officials.