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Another tragedy involving a child, Kaden Sandy drowns off chaguaramas when the pirogue he was in capsized. And despite police reports, his father says neither parent was on the boat and that Kaden's grandmother, with whom he lives, let him to go with an aunt.
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00:00A boating accident near Centipede Island off Trinidad's northwestern tip claimed the life
00:06of eight-year-old Kayden Sandy.
00:08Kayden, a student of Mocorappo Boys' RSC School, was on a pirogue, perseverance, in the company
00:14of two adults and two other children, which had gone to lend assistance to another vessel
00:20which experienced mechanical problems, according to police.
00:25The occupants further told police near Centipede Island the rope connecting the both vessels
00:30burst, causing the both vessels to collide and overtune.
00:35A nearby vessel piloted by Robert Hadid Police say assisted and managed to rescue four of
00:41the five occupants from the water and took them to the Coast Guard base at Storbos Bay
00:46to seek medical attention.
00:48Coast Guard officers were dispatched and went to the area and managed to recover the body
00:53of the eight-year-old who was trapped beneath one of the boats.
00:57Although the police report suggested the young boy's father, Jules Sandy, was also on the
01:02boat, this is being disputed by the man himself when we visited his room on Lavatille Extension
01:09Road.
01:10He and the child's mother are separated.
01:12The mother lives in Tobago and, according to him, came to Trinidad this morning after
01:17learning of her son's death.
01:19Kayden, according to Jules, lives with his maternal grandmother.
01:49The visibly irate and grieving Sandy said he recently bought a life jacket for Kayden
02:14and had he been there, the tragedy could have been avoided.
02:17Jules said he suffered severe abdominal pains around the time he believes Kayden died.
02:23And when he got the call, he drove to Carinage not knowing where to go, but he was guided
02:28by a feeling that his son was calling out to him.
02:31Jules said the adults, who were with Kayden, have not spoken to him.
03:31The last he said he saw Kayden was just before school opened, when he took him for his very
03:50first haircut and got items for school.
04:20This is the second tragedy involving young children who were estranged from their fathers.
04:35Jenny Wynn and Phoenix Smith were in their mother's care when, on September 11th, they
04:39were found dead with their mother in a decommissioned WASA tank on Palo Tuvier in Tobago.
04:45Ravishi Tiwari, Rotaryine TV6 News.
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