I hope God have NO Mercie for the person who did this to this poor kid.......
TEEN TERRORS
Boys, 14, held for buggery, murder
By: Richard Charan South Bureau.[/color]
Sean Luke... found in cane field.
Police expected a long, difficult search to find who committed the beastly buggery and murder of little Sean Luke. They believed they would capture a suspect who was sick and sadistic.
It turned out they only had to search the street where the infant lived.
The suspects were themselves "perfectly normal" children-boys aged 14.
The teens were taken into custody by the police on Tuesday night.
They were the children who took Sean into a canefield near his home last Sunday afternoon, investigators said.
It was there that someone removed his clothing, and plunged a cane stalk into the body of the naked six-year-old, the repeated thrusts puncturing his lungs and damaging his organs.
His death was slow, for he bled to death internally, an autopsy found.
Police could not say what the motive for the crime was yesterday.
One of the boys is a distant relative of Sean, and had been living in in Orange Valley for the past year.
The other, who lives at Morvant, was staying with relatives in the village for the past month.
Both are secondary school pupils.
Both were described by Sean's brother, Damien Lum Fai, as "perfectly normal, ordinary children, riding bike, flying kite in the cane fields.
We don't know what could have gotten into them to do this to another human being".
As police questioned the teenagers last night, a separate investigation was being conducted on the order of Police Commissioner Trevor Paul.
In a press release, Paul expressed his "anger and indignation over the brutal murder" and said he had launched an investigation "concerning the alleged lackadaisical behavior and inaction of the police" when Sean's mother, Pauline Lum Fai first reported her son's disappearance.
The killing triggered local and international outrage and sympathy for the family and the story was picked up by news organisations in the United States.
Sean was a US citizen and moved to Trinidad four years ago.
A call by the family to the US Embassy is said to have jump-started a delayed police response.
US ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Roy Austin said that the death of Sean was "quite a tragedy and we will do our best to help the local law enforcement to discover who did this dastardly deed".
Austin said that the FBI was involved in the case.
The Express was told that the family was visited by the Central Division's Senior Superintendent Barnette Mayers, and Southern Division Assistant Superintendent of Police Stephen Dhilpaul was appointed to probe the Couva police officers who were on duty during the time the family reported the disappearance.
Sean went missing on Sunday afternoon and it is then, police believe, he went into the canefield and met his agonising death.
His body was found early on Monday.
A security guard working at a facility near the family's home, had told family members he had spoken with a boy and dropped him at a parlour late on Sunday.
It turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
Damien Lum Fai told of how his mother reacted when she learnt of the manner of her son's death.
"The only thing she didn't do was go mad. She just shut down.
She could not move, eat, talk, could do nothing. A doctor had to come to give her medication to calm her."
Lum Fai said that the initial police response to his family's desperate plea was poor.
"The Couva (police) station treated it as not something to give priority" he said.
The boys in custody were said to "stay close and not play with other children", and "liked rough play".
Their parents were allowed to stay with them yesterday.
Lum Fai said he was told by pathologist Dr Eastlyn McDonald Burris, who autopsied Sean's body "that in all her years as a physician, she never saw something like that. These injuries, not even a grown person could live through that".
Sean's funeral will be held today at his home, and his body interred at the Waterloo Cemetery.
His classmates from the Waterloo Hindu Primary School will attend.
