Dis­charged from hos­pi­tal on­ly yes­ter­day, the moth­er of 12-year-old Mer­cedez Layne will be close­ly mon­i­tored to­day as she bids a fi­nal farewell to her child, rel­a­tives said.

They ex­plained that the health of Mer­cedez’s moth­er, Annarese Layne, de­te­ri­o­rat­ed af­ter her daugh­ter went miss­ing and wors­ened af­ter the child’s body was dis­cov­ered.

Last Wednes­day, her con­di­tion took a turn for the worse and she was rushed to the Point Fortin Hos­pi­tal be­fore be­ing trans­ferred to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, where she was ward­ed in a se­ri­ous con­di­tion.