Sentencing for Afele Tiatia was handed down by Supreme Court judge, Leiataualesa Darryl Clarke.
The victim, a 14-year-old nephew of the defendant, swore at his grandmother, the defendant's mother, provoking the Tiatia to slap him and hit him with firewood.
The teenager died a few days later.
Justice Leiataualesa spoke about the trauma the family suffered with the body of the boy not being released for nine months until a pathologist could get into Samoa to undertake a postmortem, which happened earlier this month.
Source:
RNZ Pacific