The Police reported that a 12-year old and a 14-year old beat seven year old Javi de Jesús Encarnación to death and seriously injured his cousin nine year old so that the later would not tell on them. The teenagers had earlier stolen a bicycle. The teenagers confessed the killing. The nine-year old is in the intensive care unit of the Robert Reid Children’s Hospital in Haina where he is recovering from serious head injuries.
