Dead Baby Leeya bitten in face by an adult
A jury has heard how a baby of seven weeks old who died in hospital had been bitten in the face by an adult. Baby, “Leeya” had been “repeatedly and seriously assaulted”.
Kelly Inman, 21 and Olusola Akinrele, 33, from Cambridgeshire, denied murdering their daughter Leeya Akinrele.
Leeya died after, “catastrophic brain damage” prompted doctors to trun off the life support machine in December 2006. This was 12 days after she was taken to hospital after being discovered lifeless by paramedics at the couples home.
Miss Yvonne Coen QC said doctors noted, “strange smelling infected sores” on Baby Leeya’s nose and fingers, and x-rays revealed that she had a fractured skull, small fractures on her legs and arms, a fractured thigh bone, fractured ribs and fractured fingers.
Jurors believed that the damage to Leeya’s head had been caused shortly before Inman made the 999 call.
Specialists concluded that the sores on the little girl’s face and fingers had formed after she was bitten by an adult in the days before she was found at her home.
Miss Coen said tests had been carried out to try to match the teeth of Akinrele and Inman to the bite marks but experts could not be sure who had bitten the baby.
She said fractures to Leeya’s fingers were also caused when the baby was bitten.
Miss Coen said the injuries were not accidental or caused by rough handling and were not consistent with a “single episode of violence.”
The hearing adjourned for the day and continues on Wednesday.
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jade roberts on Tue, 7th Jul 2009 6:11 pm
i was recently in HMP bronzefield with this thing that calls herself a mother she fooled all us girls in there my daughter is called leigha i cant believe the things she put that poor little girl through she should be locked in a room a n tortured
R.I.P baby girl.x
jayne on Tue, 4th Aug 2009 10:34 am
I was in Hmp Peterborugh in 2006/7 in a cell next door to this bitch . she has no remorse whatsoever, she openly boasted
about the bite marks on this babys face , a bitch that should be hung !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
anomonus on Thu, 3rd Sep 2009 5:34 pm
I was recently in prision with kellie inman and she is a lovely person, dispite what she is being accused of. Its a horrible thing to have been done to the poor little baby girl and i dont wish it upon any child and its a terriable thing to have happenend in such a brutal way, but kellie has not been found guilty yet and not every 1 knows what happenend,or why this trial has taken so long to be sorted, i truly believe that kellie could have stopped it if she knew it was happening but if she didnt know it was happening then how can u stop something u dont know! i dont think she would have ever caused her little girl any physical harm, whatever happens i wish her luck with the trial and hopes she gets the answers she is searching for.