Sascha Wil­son

A sec­ond au­top­sy has been per­formed on two-year-old Ki­mani Fran­cis, who drowned re­cent­ly.

While the re­sults were not re­ceived by his par­ents up to Thurs­day af­ter­noon, busi­ness­woman Can­dy Sab­ga, CEO of Jineil En­ter­pris­es, con­firmed that she as­sist­ed in pay­ing for the au­top­sy.

Mean­while, Ki­mani’s fam­i­ly an­nounced yes­ter­day that his fu­ner­al ser­vice will be held at the Bethel Pen­te­costal Church in Point Fortin at 2 pm on Fri­day, fol­low­ing which he will be laid to rest at the Gon­za­les ceme­tery.

Ki­mani’s body was found in the Guapo Riv­er on May 10, about a mile away from his 10th Street Ex­ten­sion, Techi­er Vil­lage, Point Fortin home.

Fol­low­ing his dis­ap­pear­ance on May 9, af­ter he wan­dered away from his home, a mas­sive aer­i­al, land and riv­er search and res­cue ef­fort was launched.

An au­top­sy on May 13 at the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre list­ed his death as drown­ing.

In a tele­phone in­ter­view yes­ter­day, Sab­ga told Guardian Me­dia that she be­came aware the fam­i­ly was try­ing to raise funds for a sec­ond au­top­sy via a Face­book live.

She even­tu­al­ly got a tele­phone con­tact for the fam­i­ly and arranged to go to Guides Fu­ner­al Home in Cou­va on Mon­day to make a $5,000 pay­ment.

She ex­plained, “I have been fol­low­ing the sto­ry from the start. It is a sad sit­u­a­tion and we just wan­na get jus­tice for ba­by Ki­mani. That is the whole thing be­hind it be­cause the sto­ries not adding up.”

Two-year-old Kimani Francis

Sab­ga could not fath­om how a child, wear­ing just a di­a­per and bare­foot, could walk about a mile away from his home with­out hav­ing blis­ters or cuts un­der his feet.

“When we got the re­sults from the first au­top­sy, all they said is that the child died from drown­ing. They did not go in­to much de­tails and I wasn’t sat­is­fied with the re­sults,” Sab­ga added.

A man who walked in­to the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion last week claim­ing he “killed the child,” is still in po­lice cus­tody as po­lice con­tin­ue their in­ves­ti­ga­tions. Po­lice sources said that two le­gal aid at­tor­neys were ap­point­ed to the case but they were un­able to take in­struc­tions from him be­cause he is in­co­her­ent.

A sep­a­rate in­ves­ti­ga­tion is al­so be­ing done in­to whether a charge of neg­li­gence can be laid in re­la­tion to Ki­mani walk­ing out of his home un­de­tect­ed and even­tu­al­ly meet­ing his death.

When both in­ves­ti­ga­tions are com­plet­ed, the of­fi­cers will be seek­ing ad­vice from the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions.

Mean­while, Zoi An­ic­ka Quan Kep, a neigh­bour who con­tact­ed the Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion af­ter she saw Ki­mani alone on the road, has since moved out of her home af­ter she re­ceived threats by vil­lagers, who ac­cused her of not sav­ing the lit­tle boy.

Quan Kep, in a video, said she tried to fol­low him but due to a med­ical con­di­tion and be­ing over­weight, she could not meet up with Ki­mani who was a dis­tance ahead.

Ki­mani’s moth­er, Kim­ber­ly Charles, 21, ad­mit­ted she on­ly be­came aware that her son was miss­ing when the po­lice came to her door. She said she last saw Ki­mani in the house about half an hour ear­li­er watch­ing tele­vi­sion with his cousins.

Of­fi­cers of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions and Point Fortin Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing.