Boy, 3, 'scalded with boiling water by mum who beat him to death with cane' had over 70 injuries when he died in agony | 1YSD7V2 | 2024-03-10 06:08:02
Little Dwelaniyah Robinson& died in agony weighing simply over 2st and had more than 70 injuries inflicted on his tiny frame.
A THREE-year-old boy was scalded with boiling water before his mum allegedly beat him to demise with a cane, a courtroom has heard.
Little Dwelaniyah Robinson& died in agony weighing simply over 2st and had more than 70 injuries inflicted on his tiny frame.
Pathologist Dr Nigel Cooper, who carried out a publish mortem on Dwelaniyah, stated the burns to his legs, buttocks and genitals would have been "excruciatingly painful".
On the day he died the injuries would have left the innocent toddler "significantly debilitated", he added.
Christina Robinson, 30, is standing trial accused of murdering her son.
She is alleged to have brought on a deadly head damage to the boy on the family residence in Ushaw Moor,& Durham, on November 5, 2022.
She can also be accused of deliberately scalding his legs and buttocks and hitting him with a bamboo cane.
Dr Cooper advised Newcastle Crown Courtroom Dwelaniyah's head damage occurred close to to the time of dying.
It was more likely to have concerned repetitive forceful movement of the top, probably by shaking or hitting a surface.
The burns suffered by the teenager, which coated "20 %" of his body, might have contributed however have been unlikely the cause of his demise, the pathologist added.
While 19 tramline bruises on Dwelaniyah have been in line with being brought on by a skinny stick, Dr Cooper stated.
Robinson alleges the teenager died after choking on a cheese sandwich and that burns have been suffered within the shower.
Jurors at& Newcastle& Crown Courtroom have been proven body worn footage of& Robinson& giving an account to& cops at her residence as emergency staff tried to revive Dwelaniyah within the subsequent room.
She says: "We have been simply downstairs and he was consuming his food and then abruptly there was like a splutter in his eyes and then he type of just went limp.
"I didn't know what was happening. I assumed he was messing around as a result of he doesn't chew his meals very properly. I'd been engaged on him for perhaps 5 to 10 minutes."
Jurors also heard the decision to the& emergency services& made by& Robinson the place she tells the operator his "eyes simply want all weird".
Dr Cooper stated he had seen no proof Dwelaniyah's airways have been blocked and dying from "inhaling a overseas physique could be very uncommon".
Robinson claims that as an alternative of in search of medical remedy for the burns she wrapped them in bandages.
There were additionally quite a few scratches, bruises and marks to his body.
Dr Cooper added: "He was coated in many accidents, front and back and I don't see how they will all be regular put on and tear. Some might have been."
Requested for his opinion about explanation for dying, the pathologist stated: "Head damage and contaminated burns."
Robinson denies homicide and youngster cruelty.
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