Laventille: A 6-year-old child has been beaten to death by a male relative who was said to be angry because the child did not do his homework.
Residents of Herman Scott Street in Laventille say the child was also thrown out of a window by the angry relative.
So incensed are residents by the situation that they are now openly supporting the call for the resumption of hanging.
Police remain tightlipped on the incident because of its sensitive nature but sources indicated that the chld started gasping for breath and began turning blue.
He was rushed to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead shortly after three this afternoon.
Investigators say the child, identified only as Josiah, and his mother had been victims of abuse for several years at the hands of a male relative.
When the mother tried to intervene she too was beaten.
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