Two in court for Sean’s murder

Two boys charged with the murder of the toddler will appear before Couva magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, and police expect that scores of curious onlookers will flock the precinct of the court to catch a glimpse of the two accused.

The two boys aged, 13 and 16, were charged on Friday at 11 pm by acting Cpl Alexis Garcia of the Homicide Bureau (South).

The 13-year-old, originally from Lady Young Road, Morvant, recently moved into the Orange Valley area to live with a distant relative, a 16-year-old. The relative was jointly charged with him.

Sean, a Second Year pupil of the Waterloo Hindu Primary School, was found dead last Tuesday morning in a canefield some 300 feet away from his home at Henry Street West. He had disappeared last Sunday and a report with the Couva police immediately by his mother Pauline Lumfai went unchecked.

An autopsy report revealed that Sean died from internal chest and abdominal injuries as well as haemorrhaging from a blunt object which was plunged repeatedly into his body.

Sean’s heinous death has caused a national outrage from the ordinary man in the street to the business sector to religious heads, causing the nation to collectively mourn his death.

Last Friday, thousands wore black as a sign of mourning and to protest the grotesque act against the child.

Sean, who was born in the United States of America, also grabbed international headlines with articles about his shocking death appearing in the Detroit Free Press and Miami Herald, which quoted Sean’s death as coming in the most violent month ever recorded in Trinidad’s history — a record 43 homicides.

Sean was lured by the two boys to go fishing shortly before he was brutalised and killed.

His body was found two days later in a canefield.