PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 8, CMC – Police say that one person is assisting their investigations into the deaths of a 34-year-old mother and her 14-month-old daughter in Barrackpore in southern Trinidad on Tuesday.
They sad that Tara Ramsaroop and her daughter Jada Mootilal were killed at the home of a close male relative.
Her sister, Jassodra Rajaram, told reporters that the mother of two was brutally killed after years of being physically abused by a close male relative and that her eight year-old son, was not injured as he was attending school.
Police said that they arrested the person who are assisting their investigations before he got to the school, which had gone on a lock down after administrators received word that the alleged attacker was on his way to take the boy out of classes.
Meanwhile, police have charged two people, Premwatee Amy Babwah and Michael Williams with attempted murder and cruelty of a one year old female baby.
They said that last Wednesday, officers of the Special Victims Department, Southern Division, responded to a report of cruelty upon a child which occurred in Marabella, south of here, leading to the arrest Babwah and Williams.
The child is warded at hospital in a stable condition.
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