‘We loved Malick’

However, the family said they received no reports of those injuries.

Police said the Homicide Bureau is continuing investigations and that the case can not yet be classified. They noted that only further investigations, including interviews with doctors and the pathologist, would be able to determine what caused the blunt force trauma as other things could have caused it. Speaking to Sunday Newsday yesterday, Samuel’s mother said, “I just want to say we never use to lash him or anything. The kind of thing they putting up on news and papers is not the truth.

We used to treat Malick with love and care. The most we would do is bouff him. If he did something wrong, the most we would do was tell him to go sit or lie down.” Another relative explained that Samuel was sleeping when he began to vomit. She said he had stopped when a male relative, who was with Samuel at their Sangre Chiquito home, walked the toddler outside to bathe. After his bath, the relative gave him some juice and Samuel began to vomit again, this time through his nose in addition to his mouth.

She said the man began to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to the boy, but it was not working.

He ran out the house to find someone time assist and met her and the boy’s mother down the street as they were returning from work.

They hurried home and again administered CPR and eventually called 999, where an operator told them to continue until an ambulance arrived. She said they possibly “pumped” Samuel for over half an hour. “We loved that child. We tried to save him. Probably we pumped him too hard, I don’t know, but everybody knows we tried to resuscitate him because he was vomiting through his nose. And to see people saying all these wrong things about us. It is sad to see the media say this. The autopsy we got didn’t say anything about any broken ribs,” she said.

She described Samuel as a quiet, obedient and loving boy who the family loved deeply, and to be accused of killing him, in addition to his death, was almost too much to endure.