Just read the following at the Trinidad Express online at the end of their lead story on an investigation into St. Michaels Home for Boys. That a young boy suffered such a tragic, abused life in our society is devastating. Make sure you get to the third paragraph: On April 8, 2014, 13-year-old St Michael’s School for Boys resident, Brandon Hargreaves, suffered a fatal blow to the head when he fell in his dormitory room. Conflicting accounts have emerged on the incident, among them that Hargreaves and another boy were involved in a fight when the fall occurred. The child is said to have died of his injuries around 10.25 p.m. that night at the St James Medical Complex, but there have also been conflicting reports as to the time that the injury was suffered and the time he was taken to hospital. An autopsy revealed the teenager died as a result of haemorrhaging of the brain caused by the trauma suffered when his head hit the concrete floor of his dorm room. Hargreaves’ short life was unhappily eventful. At age 12, he was found living in a kennel with a dangerous dog at a home along Upper Valley Road, Cascade. He was rescued and treated for dog bites at the Port of Spain General Hospital, where it was also discovered that he had been beaten with a blunt instrument. Police had been told that on the night of July 18, the boy was accused of misbehaving and as a result, he was denied dinner, stripped naked and put in the kennel as punishment by two male relatives. Hargreaves was removed by the State from the home of his relatives and placed in the St Michael’s School for Boys.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:21:52 +0000