A four-year-old in Trinidad, who police were told, died after eating a meal of French fries last week Thursday, was actually beaten to death. Trinidad Express reports that a post mortem performed on Tuesday confirmed the cause of death as blunt force trauma. The child was severely beaten on the head and abdomen. Her father said he was distraught by the findings. “I cannot believe this. It is very bad. This is terrible,” he said. The 36 year old man said he was not aware that his daughter was being abused. He said he saw his girlfriend hit his daughter once and threatened to leave. He and his daughter lived together with the woman and her two children, ages five and eight, in south Trinidad. He cried and said his child never complained about being beaten. Homicide officers have launched a manhunt for the mother of two who vanished on the night the child died.
