A month after four-year-old Jenice Figaro was tragically beaten to death, the female relative accused of the crime was arrested by police on Wednesday evening.
Police picked up the woman at her relatives’ home in South Trinidad and took her into custody at the Region III Homicide Bureau in San Fernando.
No charges were laid up to yesterday, however, as investigators said there were a few more matters to complete before submitting a report to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution.
Following Figaro’s death on November 24, the woman was questioned by police but maintained she had nothing to do with the girl’s death.
“I did not kill Jenice Figaro. I loved her like my own daughters,” she had told the T&T Guardian back then.
It was initially thought that Figaro died of poisoning, after she began vomiting and complained of feeling unwell after eating a dinner of fries, ketchup and garlic sauce at her Corosal Road, Whiteland home on the day in question.
Figaro began to fidget, the relative had told police, before falling unconscious and by the time she reached the San Fernando General Hospital she was already dead. It was at the hospital that doctors noticed bruises on the her body and suggested an autopsy be conducted at the Forensic Science Centre, St James. Forensic pathologist Dr Eslyn Mc Donald-Burris found that her death was due to blunt force trauma