The police have detained a man who reportedly tried to revive his two-year-old stepdaughter with live electrical wires.
The police report that the infant, Kristha Knutt, who lived with her mother was suffering from a cold.
The man went to check on the girl and found her unresponsive.
The child’s mother told the police that when the stepfather saw that the child was not responding, they tried to revive her by using live electrical wires with 110 volts of electricity.
The attempt however failed and the child was rushed to the Port of Spain General Hospital where she was pronounced dead on arrival.
An autopsy revealed that the child died as a result of blunt force trauma to the head, aspiration due to pneumonia and electrocution.
Source-CMC
