RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA 

Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter 

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt 

A Moru­ga man seen on video al­leged­ly beat­ing and threat­en­ing a nine-year-old boy with a knife has been ar­rest­ed and charged with child cru­el­ty. The 43-year-old was tak­en in­to cus­tody by of­fi­cers of the Spe­cial Vic­tims Unit. 

PC Kevin Craw­ford of the SVU laid the charge on Fri­day. 

The sus­pect is ex­pect­ed to ap­pear be­fore a Mas­ter of the court on Mon­day. 

Three chil­dren, aged five, sev­en, and nine, were re­moved from their home in Marac and placed in the cus­tody of the Chil­dren’s Au­thor­i­ty. At 8:45 p.m. on Feb­ru­ary 11, a res­i­dent of Marac Vil­lage, Moru­ga, post­ed a three-minute and 20-sec­ond video of the in­ci­dent.

Of­fi­cers from the Moru­ga Po­lice Sta­tion, led by Asp Band­han and in­clud­ing Sgt Charles, act­ing Sgt Mungroo, South­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force, Cpl Ram­dass, and WPC Valen­tine of the SVU, ar­rest­ed the sus­pect at his home.