Toddler Santina Cawley died of 'forcefully inflicted injuries', trial hears

Santina Cawley Image: Provision Santina Cawley Image: Provision A TWO-YEAR-OLD girl found critically injured in an apartment in Cork in 2019 died of “forcefully inflicted injuries” having sustained a traumatic brain injury, an upper spinal cord injury coupled with polytrauma and lower limb injuries due to blunt force trauma.

She noted that Santina had a healed fracture to her left femur. However, Dr Bolster stated that all the fractures and bruising she recorded at the post mortem of the child were recent.Dr Bolster said that the injuries were not consistent with a fall or an accidental death. Dr Bolster said that once the head injury was inflicted Santina would have been unable to cry. Effectively the child “would have gone in to a deep coma.”

The child sustained bruising to the right upper arm, the left upper arm, the left elbow, the chest and abdomen, the left sternum, the right side of the chest, the thorax and the pelvis.

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