Pathologist testifies 13-year-old murder victim suffered blunt force trauma
A forensic pathologist testifying in the trial of a man accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Burnaby, B.C., told the British Columbia Supreme Court Tuesday that the victim sustained “blunt force” scalp and head injuries before she died.
The body of the girl, who cannot be identified under the terms of a publication ban, was found in Burnaby’s Central Park in July 2017, just hours after her mother had reported her missing.Morin, who conducted the autopsy, said the girl died after being strangled, which caused the bursting of blood vessels from under her chin to the top of her face, and in her eyes.
Morin said Tuesday that studies have shown it usually takes about 10-20 seconds of compression for a person to fall unconscious, but it would take between two and five minutes without oxygen before death occurs. “That results in blood still being able to be pumped from the heart, into the brain and into the tissues of the face and the eyes, but because you’ve collapsed those jugular veins,” blood can’t be pumped back to the heart.It takes about 4.4 pounds of external pressure to collapse a jugular vein, he said. That, he said, is “not something that can be done accidentally. It needs to be relatively consistent, strong, external compression.
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