A 32-year-old Laventille man yesterday calmly stood before the Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers Caesar as she read to him the charge of murdering his 17-month-old daughter last week.
Brandon Job, of John John, was represented by Legal Aid attorney Randall Raphael as he stood accused of killing Nyla Sanchez at the child’s home at Plaisance Terrace, Laventille.
According to police reports, around 8 pm on April 20 detectives were called to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital after Sanchez’s relatives took her lifeless body to the Accident and Emergency Department.
Her mother told police that an hour earlier she had left Nyla and her four-year-old brother at their home and went on an errand nearby.
She said when she returned she found her daughter unconscious and frothing at the mouth.
The mother was detained at the Besson Street Police Station for several hours before being released pending further investigations.
A post mortem by pathologist Dr Eslyn McDonald-Burris at the Forensic Science Centre, St James, subsequently revealed the baby died from blunt force trauma to the head.
The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions gave the green light to charge Job on Monday with the murder of the child. He will re-appear in court on May 24.