Sean 6; buggered, murdered

Police said evidence showed the Second Year student of Waterloo Hindu Primary school — who was found nude — had been buggered.

Police sources said an autopsy, done yesterday at the Forensic Science Centre in St James

revealed death was caused by “internal chest and abdominal injuries as well as haemorrhaging due to a foreign object forcibly introduced into the body cavity.”

The autopsy was performed by Dr Eastlyn McDonald Burris.

Only last month, New Grant Presbyterian School pupil Dane Andrews, 12, was found dead at a river bank in Monkey Town, Princes Town. He too was buggered.

Choking back tears, Sean’s mother Pauline Lumfai claimed when she reported her son missing to the police, she was told by an officer that she was wasting their time. She later reported the matter to the US Embassy.

Lumfai, who described her son as a very friendly and brave boy, said she believed his innocence may have cost him his life. The boy who went missing on Sunday,

was found yesterday by police using sniffer-dogs.

Based on the marks of violence about the chest and back, Sean appeared to have been beaten, police said. His clothes, a blue jersey and underwear, were recovered on

Monday about 100 feet from where the body was found yesterday. Lumfai said after several attempts to get police assistance to carry out searches, the police only intervened when they were told that Sean was an American citizen.

Lumfai is a mother of three and Sean was the last. The victim lived with his mother

in the Bronx, New York and came back to live in Trinidad two years ago.

Adding to the family’s grief were the conflicting reports theygot about Sean’s last hours. His cousin Surendra Binda, 23, said the family was told by a group of teenagers, from Manzanilla and Laventille, that Sean was seen at around 5 pm on Sunday walking

along the road with a “thin, tall man”.

Relatives also said they were told by a security guard that Sean was seen at a neighbourhood parlour at around 6 pm that day.

Sean’s brother Damien said by the decomposed state of the body, he may have been killed shortly after he went missing at around 2 pm Sunday.

Clutching her son’s photo,

Lumfai yesterday questioned why

someone would bugger and kill him. “I don’t know how to live now,” she sobbed.

Recalling her last moments with Sean, Lumfai said she spent time with Sean in the kitchen where he helped her cook dhal, rice and curry duck. After the meal, she

asked Sean to take a nap with her, but he said he wanted to play with his toys.

Lumfai said she awoke sometime later and did not see her son anywhere, and assumed he was with relatives in the village. When he did not turn up in the evening, the worried woman went house to house asking for her son.

The Lumfai killing evoked memories of the murder of 11-year-old Akiel Chambers eight

years ago and more recently, in February, that of Andrews.

Chambers’ body was found at the bottom of a swimming pool at a Maraval home on May 23, 1998. His killing remains unsolved.

On February 1, Andrews went swimming at a river in Monkey Town. His body was found the next day on the river bank. Up to late yesterday, no arrests had been made in these three murders.