Following a post mortem examination that proved that eight-year-old Isaiah Smartt of “E” Field Sophia was murdered, the Police arrested a “spiritualist” in connection with the murder. The body of the boy was found in a swampy area a few yards away from the back door of the woman’s house.
Dead: Isaiah Smartt
Based on reports, the woman was arrested on Friday afternoon and taken to the Alberttown Police Station, where a statement was taken.
Residents in the area have said that the woman would normally lock herself in the house belonging to her family and pray all the time. She is assisting with the investigations, but the mother of the dead child has, from the inception, been holding out that her son was murdered.
According to reports, the child’s mother was under the impression that he had gone to his father’s home, and when he did not return home, she did not pay much heed –until his body was discovered and an alarm was raised.
Eyewitnesses state that the body was swollen, suggesting that it might have been there for at least two days.
The late Isaiah Smartt was last seen alive on Monday afternoon, playing around the area, and it was not until a relative had retired to bed that the child was discovered missing. Isaiah was described as a mannerly child and a great cricketer by those who had known him.
