An Erin mother believes her 20-year-old son, Kevin Hart, drowned after he was accidentally flung off a boat on Friday. Sylvia Hart said she is just praying that his body is found.
“They call my phone and all them tell me is, ‘Sylvia come down the beach now, Kevin now fling off the boat’. And from the time they tell me my child now fall off the boat I know my son dead because my son can’t swim. He can’t swim. So I know my son died so I praying I asking God to just let me get the body self. Let me see him for the last,” she said.
The mother of six said she was told that Hart, his brother and cousin, had put on two big engines on a pirogue and went out to sea. The incident occurred around 4 pm.
“They come up the river with the boat and they head out and the boat had so much speed, the engine had so much speed that the person who was driving the boat like he could not hold down the two big engine, the engine too big that he could not hold it down and everybody just pelt out the boat and the boat just remain spinning in the water, spinning right around in the water.”
She said Hart’s cousin and brother made it to shore, but her son disappeared under the water.
“One went back and stop the boat from spinning and bring it to shore. But my son did not come back. Up to this time now he did not come back. Coast Guard out there looking for him, the police and them, the helicopter flying in the air. They sending a boat to look for him. Everybody searching for him but up to now he ain’t come back yet,” she said.
Hart, a Cepep worker, says when she left her Arena Village home on Friday her son was asleep.
“His father comes and call him and was carrying him down the road to go in the sea but he did not go with his father. He remain down there with friends,” she said.
Hart, a fisherman has two children, ages three and one year old. Erin police are investigating.
