Police are investigating the death of a five-month-old baby who reportedly drowned in a bucket of urine at his Laventille home sometime between Wednesday night and early yesterday.
According to reports, the baby’s parents went to sleep on the same bed with the child at their Picton Road, Laventille, on Wednesday night.
When the father woke up around 4.35 am, he found the infant lying face down in a bucket which was at the side of the bed. The house has no indoor plumbing.
The parents took the baby to the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Police detained both parents for questioning. The child’s mother was taken to the hospital after she collapsed while in custody.
An autopsy was performed on the child’s body at the Forensic Science Centre in St James, late yesterday.
Speaking with media outside the centre, relatives of the parents said that the couple’s other child, a three-year-old boy, was being cared for by his grandparents.
Detectives of the Region One Homicide Bureau are continuing investigations.
