VANCOUVER — A sexual assault expert testifying at the trial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl in a B.C. park said she suffered injuries more consistent with childbirth that would have made it difficult for her to walk.
Dr. Tracy Pickett, who specializes in emergency and clinical forensic medicine, told the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of Ibrahim Ali that the laceration to the girl's vagina happened before her death.
Ali has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of the teen, whose body was found in Burnaby's Central Park early on July 19, 2017, just hours after her mother reported her missing.Pickett told the jury on Monday that she used crime scene photos and the autopsy report to form her opinions that the victim had vaginal and anal injuries that were consistent with blunt force trauma.
"Yes, the reason being that a person who is willingly participating is able to say 'stop that hurts, this is uncomfortable' and they may not proceed because it is uncomfortable." Keeley said in an opening statement at the trial in April that Ali and the girl did not know one another. She said the evidence would show the girl was walking or jogging through the park when she was dragged off a pathway into the forest by Ali, sexually assaulted and strangled.Crown witness and RCMP forensic biologist Christine Crossman testified last week that only the DNA of Ali and the girl was detected from swabs of her vaginal area, where sperm cells matched Ali’s DNA.
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