A four-week-old baby boy is dead after he was fed and put to bed by his teenaged mother.
Police are now investigating the circumstances.
Reports state that baby Jaden Mohammed, of Caratal, was fed by his 18-year-old mother around 10:30pm on Saturday night.
Shortly after feeding little Jaden, the mother placed the baby to sleep in their one-room wooden structure and also retired to bed, with a pillow barricading and separating her from the infant.
The next day at around 3.20 a.m. the mother and the baby’s 23-year-old father, discovered the child motionless.
Police received a report of an unresponsive infant on Allarack Trace around 3:55am.
Paramedics of the Emergency Health Services responded and took the child to the San Fernando General Hospital.
However, the baby was unresponsive and was pronounced dead at 4.46 a.m.
An autopsy is expected to be done this week at the San Fernando mortuary.