Acting on pure maternal instinct, single mother Monique Stewart flung her body over her infant son as a shield when the roof of her George Town apartment collapsed as Tropical Storm Grace passed over Grand Cayman on 18 Aug.
Stewart’s act saved her 1-year-old son Conrad Malcolm when the rafters gave way in their Mary Street apartment.
“I’m a single mother… so just thinking about losing him was a nightmare,” Stewart sobbed as she sat down with the Cayman Compass to share her story.
She said when the roof collapsed, she was battered as she covered her son’s body with her own.
“At one point I said, ‘Monique, this is it’, because the [roof] board… the zinc was back and forth at me… my body was bruised.”
Homeless and scared
The apartment was so badly damaged in the storm, that the mother and son had to move out. Stewart, a domestic worker, is currently sharing a small one-bedroom studio apartment with her sister and boyfriend.
“I’m trying my best just to find somewhere to stay with [my son],” she said.
She said the storm was the worst experience of her life.
As storm winds started to impact Grand Cayman in the early morning hours of 18 Aug., she realised it might be worse than she had expected, and she really began to worry when the winds began rocking the rafters.
“I tried to save him and myself…. Even now I’m still scared,” Stewart said, adding that she remains traumatised by the ordeal.
She and her son had to be evacuated from the apartment by the Cayman Islands Regiment...
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