Woman confesses to punching little Aaliyah

The Newsday newspaper reported Friday that an 18-year-old Siparia woman has confessed that she beat two-year-old Aaliyah Johnson in a fit of rage because the little girl drank her last beer.

The paper said the woman told investigators she punched Aliyah twice in the stomach, following which the child complained of abdominal pains and was rushed to the Siparia Health Facility where she died.

An autopsy by pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov revealed she died from blunt force abdominal trauma and acute internal blood loss. He said the blows were so severe that her liver was ruptured causing her to bleed to death.

So far police have not charged anyone in this case. Newsday said the woman said she is sorrow for her actions in her confession statement. She also said she was accustomed to feeding Aliyah beer.

The woman got into a fit of rage because she had been drinking and also taking drugs, Newsday suggested.

Aaliyah lived with her family in a 10 x 10 galvanise room built under a house at Maria David Trace, San Francique in Penal. The owner of the house Ramjohn Hosein, 67, told Newsday that he always felt sorry for Aliyah whose life was a daily struggle.

The child's funeral is on Friday.