Last night we told you about two-year-old Raheem Martinez, who perished in a fire that flattened his family's wooden home in Independence Village. Well, this structure, on the left hand side of your screen, beside the wooden house, is the home.
Police say it was a 6 by 6 structure with one window and one door that housed two-year-old Raheem and his parents Remijio Martinez and Dorla Flores. They weren't home and had left the child sleeping inside with a mosquito coil burning. The house had no electricity, and it is believed that coil caused the fire.
Police say the file has been forwarded to the DPP to determine if any charges for child neglect will be brought.
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