Giovanni Ellis has been identified as the prime suspect in the rape and murder of Kelsey Ferrigon, following the discovery of the 9-year-old’s partially nude body inside a barrel at her home at Job Lane, Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Friday.
Some members of the public have cast suspicion on Ellis’s family. However, his mother has since spoken out, condemning her son’s actions.
According to Ellis’s mother, she was surprised when she saw her son the day of the incident, as she had refused to bail him out of jail. Ellis was reportedly out on bail after allegedly previously committing sexual offences.
Ellis’s mother, who also resides in Spanish Town, shared with the Jamaica Observer that she left him in jail to teach him a lesson and that she has absolutely nothing to do with her son. She said she was asleep at the time of the incident and was distraught when she was informed about what had happened.
“Mi whole world get dark. Mi weak, my body nervous. From Friday mi nuh get a good sleep nor eat nothing,” she said.
She further shared that Ferrigon was like a daughter to her and that she and the 9-year-old’s mother were friendly.
“You see that little girl, it come een like a my own pickney jus’ dead. She is like my child to me. The all of us interact; you always see me and her mother a talk. We talk but we never have a conflict, nothing at all, so it really hurt hard. It really rock my world,” she said.
Though she reached out to Ferrigon’s mother after the incident, Ellis’s mother explained that there is no comforting word that can be said to a parent in a situation like this. According to the mother of five, her son, who was placed in the custody of his father when he was two, does not frequently live with her.
She also shared that he is her most problematic child.
“When him come weh mi deh, he’s just like problem child. Him never live [with] me for a good month so me couldn’t give you definite information about him background and how him stay, but mi know him wicked… Weh him do yah so, me can tell you say him wicked. Him nuh have nuh heart, and me nuh have none fi him,’’ she stated.
Ellis’s mother went on to advise her son to turn himself in before it goes badly.
“It better him turn himself in because police station is the safest place for him. If mi buck him, it nah go pretty between me and him.’’
