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June 18, 2015 8:03 AM
PHILIPSBURG--The Court of First Instance on Wednesday sentenced a 28-year-old man to twelve years for having strangled a two-year-old child who was entrusted to his care on August 27, 2014.
 
Following the Prosecutor's demand the Judge found it proven that Nikerson Boireau had been responsible for the child's death. Prosecutor Maarten Noordzij had recommended the Court to impose a 12-year sentence during the May 27 court hearing.
 
Relatives, friends and other supporters of the defendant, some of who were wearing T-shirts reading "Free Bob" and "Free and Innocent," listened in silence while the Judge read the verdict.
 
The defendant had taken the lifeless body of the child to the Emergency Room at St. Maarten Medical Center (SMMC) around 2:30pm that day. According to medical doctors, the child was already dead when it was brought in and reanimation proved futile. The child's heart had stopped, it had ceased breathing and its pupils were no longer responding.
 
Paediatrician Dr. Pieter Offringa deemed the circumstances under which the child was brought into hospital suspicious, which led him to file a report with the Prosecutor's Office.
 
The child's mother, who had been in a relationship with the defendant since May 2014, said she had left her child with the defendant as there had been no health issue, while she had gone to work. Only a few hours later, Boireau took the child to hospital from his home in Cole Bay as the toddler, according to him, was suffering from convulsions.
 
"I saw my son for the last time around 1:00pm. Bobby Boireau then took my son with him. When I left D'Jahneiro with Bobby he was in good health," the mother had told the police.
 
"When I took D'Jahneiro to my home there was nobody else at my home. Later I heard D'Jahneiro crying. I took him to the hospital. When I got there he was not breathing. He wasn't moving. He was just lifeless in my hand," the defendant had stated.
 
Experts at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) arrived at the conclusion that the child was killed by "manual strangulation." Several bruises were found in the soft tissue surrounding the child's left neck artery.
 
These conclusions were supported by the Department of Forensic Medicine of Leuven University in Belgium.
 
The defendant had also stated that the child was healthy that day. "He was acting normal. There was no one else home during the time D'Jahneiro was at my home that day," he had said. All this led the Court to the conclusion that Boireau had been responsible for the child's death by strangulation.
 
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