A two-year-old girl found unresponsive in an apartment in Cork died from polytrauma including fractures of the skull, injury to her spinal cord and extensive bruising of the head and body, which could not have happened as a result of an accidental fall, a murder trial has heard.
“These are not accidental but are forcefully inflicted injuries,” said Dr Bolster after cataloguing a long list of injuries sustained by Santina including complex fractures to her skull with displacement of bone, two fractured ribs and fractures to her right arm and end of her left thigh. Cross-examined by defence counsel Brendan Grehan SC, who asked if Santina would have stopped crying after suffering head injuries, Dr Bolster said that Santina would have fallen into a coma as soon as she suffered the extensive head and brain injuries and would have stopped crying immediately.
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Toddler died from traumatic brain injury, court toldThe Assistant State Pathologist, Dr Margot Bolster, has told the trial of a woman who is charged with murdering two-year-old Santina Cawley at her apartment in Cork in July, 2019, that the child died from a traumatic brain injury with polytrauma and bone fractures inflicted by blunt force.
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