The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Melissa Chea-Annan
31 March 2008
There are unconfirmed reports that there may be no autopsy for little Alvin Davies who was allegedly killed on Christmas Day by one of his colleagues known as Dixon Kenema, alias "Sunny-boy".
A reliable source told The INQUIRER on Wednesday that it would be impossible for an autopsy to be conducted on the little child because his body is decomposed and moreover the alleged perpetrator is a juvenile who can not face any court trial.
At the same time The INQUIRER has gathered that since the commission of the crime on Newport Street on that fateful Christmas Day, the alleged perpetrator's parents have relocated him to Harbel, Margibi County, where he is presently residing and going to school.
The mother of little Alvin, Rachel Boley who walked into the offices of the INQUIRER on Wednesday expressed disappointment over the manner in which the Liberian Government has treated the incident involving the death of her son.
According to her, she has visited the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Sinkor, where the body has been kept for viewing on several occasions. "The body is spoiling and they are just keeping him there without preserving the body. I told them to give me my son's body but they refused and insisted that they have to perform an autopsy," she lamented.
The tearful young woman said it was more than three months now since the incident occurred and that the government had continued to delay and keep assuring her that an autopsy has to be performed before turning the body over to her. "I don't even know the exact date when the pathologist would arrive to conduct the autopsy, but they continue to tell me to wait," she added.
"I am tired running around from one place to the next for my son; all I need now is the body of my son so that he can be buried properly, but if the government insists on performing an autopsy on him, then let them relocate the body and take him to the funeral home so that his body can be preserved and not to decompose more than this," she pleaded.
Madam Boley recalled that in other instances where a similar problem occurred, particularly in the case of little Angel, her body was preserved until an autopsy was performed, "but why is my own so different, or is it because I don't have anyone to talk for me or because it is a 'boy child'?" she asked.
The young mother of the 15-year-old child is calling on the Liberian Government to relocate the body of her son and have it preserved until the autopsy can be performed. Madam Boley explained that at the National Police Headquarters on Wednesday, one of the commanders told her that they are awaiting the arrival of the Justice Minister from Accra, Ghana this week so that they can resolve issues surrounding the autopsy of her son.
According to Madam Boley, little Alvin met his untimely death on Christmas Day when Sunny-boy allegedly kicked his scrotum out of anger for wasting water on his (Sunny-boy) mother. She said although Alvin apologized to the woman involved for the act, but Sunny-boy insisted that he was going to deal with Alvin because he (Alvin) was too frisky.
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