<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">“He said that in Jamaica the boy would be outside, playing in rivers, in the jungle all the time,” </div></div>
very sad story
When its hot in the jungle of peace I go swimming in the ocean of love.....
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">i purposely did not read the details of the news story because in my heart i felt it was another randal dooley case.
<span style="font-weight: bold">the children's aid society has a poor opinion of jamaican parenting and these cases only reinforce their biases. </span></div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A few months ago I saw him out in the driveway. He was wearing shoes that were way too big for him, no gloves, no jacket and he was shovelling the driveway by himself.
“I thought his dad would come out to help him, but he didn’t.”</div></div>
maybe the dad was at work and the stepmother sent him out?
dont canada have a law that students must go to school? He attended school last year did he switch schools and he got lost in the shuffle?
may be RIP.. another life gone too soon
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Stepmother also charged in Brampton boy’s death
Published On Tue May 31 2011
Shakeil Boothe, 10, was found dead in his Brampton home on May 27, 2011.
GLOBAL TORONTO NEWS
Jim Wilkes
Staff Reporter
The wife of a Brampton man charged with murder in last week’s death of his 10-year-old son has now been charged with manslaughter.
<span style="font-weight: bold">The charge came just a day after Shakeil Boothe’s father, Garfield Boothe, 31, was charged with second-degree murder.</span>
Nichelle Boothe-Rowe, 28, was remanded to custody until June 8 in a brief appearance today in Brampton court. Dressed in a dark green jail-issue sweatshirt and track pants, Boothe-Rowe stood silently in the prisoner’s bock, her hands cuffed in front of her.
She was ordered to have no contact with her husband, who was to appear in court later today.
Boothe had told neighbours on quiet Homeland Ct. <span style="font-weight: bold">that he’d brought his young son to Canada from Jamaica to give him a better life.</span>Shakeil was found dead last Friday in the two-storey brick and siding home where he lived with his father, stepmother and an 8-month-old half-brother.
Investigators wouldn’t say how the youngster died, but a police source said Shakeil had been severely beaten.
The source also said the child’s injuries went unreported for two days.
Police forensic officers spent the weekend examining the home at the end of the short dead-end street near Dixie Rd. and Howden Blvd.
Neighbour Rilla Armitage said her heart sank as police continued to work behind yellow tape, removing items from the house to a large command post vehicle parked in the court.
“We were all holding out hope that it might have been an undiagnosed medical condition or something,” she told the Star. “I’m dismayed. I’m sad that it turned out like this, of course. I wish it was something else.
“We were hoping against hope that it wouldn’t be this bad.”
Like others on the block, she said she was heartened to hear <span style="font-weight: bold">how Boothe had reconnected </span>with his son in Jamaica and brought him to Canada, moving from the Jane-Finch area of Toronto to their quiet suburban neighbourhood.
“It sounded like a great story,” she said. “It touched all of us.”
Neighbour Dan Greig agreed.
“He was so proud, telling us how his son was going to get a better education in Canada, how it was better for him here and that there was nothing for him in Jamaica,” Greig recalled.
He said Shakeil was a “sweet little guy” who was shy, but was “getting better and better” around people.
<span style="font-weight: bold">“He had such good manners,” Greig said. “Somebody had obviously taught him well.”</span>
Greig said he hadn’t seen the boy outside in more than a month. That was strange, he said, because one of his boarders had given the boy a bike in April.
“I thought he’d be out riding around in the court, but we never saw him,” he explained.
“A few months ago I saw him out in the driveway. He was wearing shoes that were way too big for him, no gloves, no jacket and he was shovelling the driveway by himself.
“I thought his dad would come out to help him, but he didn’t.”
Greig said Boothe spoke of the opportunities his son had in Canada.
“He said that in Jamaica the boy would be outside, playing in rivers, <span style="font-weight: bold">in the jungle </span> all the time,” he said. “But he said he couldn’t get him outside here. But he bought him a lot of video games, so I guess that’s what he was doing inside.”
A post-mortem was performed on Saturday, but its results will not be released, police said.
Boothe made a brief court appearance in Brampton court on Saturday.
It is Peel’s eighth homicide this year.
Neighbours said Shakeil attended nearby Hanover Road Public School last year but wasn’t going to classes there this year.
“He was a very nice boy,” another neighbour said in an interview. “He had such good manners.”
“It’s horrifying,” said Vibhushan Paul, 53, a father and grandfather himself.
“Honestly, I was hoping that the autopsy would show it was something medical or natural. You could understand or find closure in that.”
“A 10-year-old kid doesn’t deserve that,” said Annu Kapur. “It’s devastating. It’s so painful.
“It really pierces my heart to know what that child must have gone through
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">where dem dig up this picture?
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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so the child never guh school di whole a dis year ?
Why didn't the wutliss teacher/school inquire as to the child's whereabout ?
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Because the father told the school that the boy moved to Florida to live with his mother
so unless the school in Florida (as him was supposedly be) wanted documents from the school in Canada then they dont get involved but if the father had told them he was in another school in Canada then they would get intouch with that school.
He stopped going to school in January
He is a sweet looking boy
my heart breaks for him.
Ok. What a way him pose off like him a hot stepper. Mek him gwaan wid him hot self a jail old wukliss bway
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A di fada this ?
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">where dem dig up this picture?
</div></div> </div></div>
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SweetSsop</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Gen</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so the child never guh school di whole a dis year ?
Why didn't the wutliss teacher/school inquire as to the child's whereabout ?
</div></div>
Because the father told the school that the boy moved to Florida to live with his mother
so unless the school in Florida (as him was supposedly be) wanted documents from the school in Canada then they dont get involved but if the father had told them he was in another school in Canada then they would get intouch with that school.
He stopped going to school in January
He is a sweet looking boy
my heart breaks for him. </div></div>
sound like the father expected the boy to greet and treat him warmly when he was not in his life for most of his 10 years and did not give the boy time to adjust. Ill treated the boy because the father not sensible enough to know the boy was in transition. Father get frustrated and try to send boy back to mother (telling the boy moved) and it did not work out. fi the father & stepmother bunch a ediats
Now who has his younger child with the step mother? Children svcs?
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