Mentally ill man beaten to a pulp in prison - Skull cracked in two places

A Kingston man is demandig answers after his mentally ill son was seriously hurt while being locked up at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre.

Roy Ellis said his son, Oraine Ellis, 23, was awaiting physicatric evaluation after he was alleged to have assaulted a woman roughly one month ago.

"He has been behind bars for almost a month because the judge say him must get an evaluation done so a that him did a wait for. Right now mi little boy deh a KPH with him head and body swell up and no one a tell mi how him get those injuries," the concerned father said.

Ellis said he had only learnt of his son's hospitalisation after a friend told him that he had seen him on a stretcher at Kingston Public Hospital, a little more than two weeks ago.

Ellis said he has been seeking answers about what resulted in his son being in the hospital but no information was forthcoming.

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"No one is speaking to me or even making an attempt to tell me what is wrong. Is almost three weeks now and no one nah say anything. The only thing I got from the authorities are the letters to visit him at the hospital, and them just always send out the letter with a junior staff," the father said.

"The first time mi go visit Oraine, him eyes couldn't open the way them swell and him couldn't talk. Him still can't talk ... all he does is look around. Mi talk to a doctor who tell mi say he was beaten badly all over his body and his skull crack two places," he said.

A distraught Ellis told THE STAR that he is frustrated and worried, and is imploring the relevant authorities to offer an explanation about how his son got injured.

"All the talk we a talk to him, him nah respond to wi. Is pampers him have on and because him can't talk, we don't hear what happen to him. The only thing my son keeps doing is moving his eyes when we speak to him. Him head buss up and him swell up. It pain mi heart to see him like this," the father said.

- S.M.L