Toronto: A coroner's investigation into the starvation demise of a five-year-old Toronto kid enters its second day today with affirmation wanted from youngsters' help specialists and a pathologist.

The examination into Jeffrey Baldwin's expiration started Monday with confirmation from first responders on the scene on November 30, 2002, when Jeffrey passed on.

They were stunned by his withered condition, maxim he resembled a starving kid from the Third World.

Jeffrey's grandma, Elva Bottineau, had put the 911 call that morning, however the crisis teams say she appeared more bothered than frightened.

Jeffrey's grandparents were allowed care of the kid and his three kin and they were later indicted second-degree homicide.

Jeffrey weighed 21 pounds - about the same as he did on his first birthday - when he passed on of bacterial bronchopneumonia as a complexity of unending starvation.