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A radiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center testified that the bleeding in Kinsley’s brain was not consistent with a child falling off a table, which is what prosecutors say Young told the child’s mother had happened.
Dr. Marguerite Care testified that the toddler’s brain showed bleeding where the head hooks into the spine.
“Not the location we are going to see from a simple fall,” Care said.
A second doctor testified that Kinsley most likely was “violently shaken.”
Dr. Virginia Utz, pediatric ophthalmologist at Cincinnati Children’s, said Kinsley had significant retinal hemorrhage in her eyes, which would have affected her sight.
During cross examination by the defense, Utz testified it was possible that a blood issue could have caused the retinal hemorrhage.
Dr. Dr. Kirsten Simonton, a pediatric specialist at Cincinnati Children’s, testified about the injuries she observed when Kinsley was transported from Atrium Medical Center to the Cincinnati hospital.
Kinsley had bruising on her head, ears, arm, back and bottom, Simonton pointed out with a laser marker.
“The total number of bruising is more that we would expect in a normal active child,” Simonton said, adding Kinsley’s injuries were “non-accidental.”
Simonton said a fall from a chair, hitting her head on a faucet or a minor car crash would not have caused Kinsley’s injuries. The child died of abusive head trauma, she said.
Photos of the unresponsive toddler were projected in the courtroom that showed bruising and her mouth filled with a breathing tube.
One juror wiped a way a tear then swallowed hard. Another shook her head while looking at the pictures.
Prosecutors say Kinsley was beaten to death at the hands of Young, who was controlling in his relationship with her mother, Rebekah Kinner.
But Young’s defense team, during opening statements, painted Kinner as an unfit mother and questioned if the child’s head injuries could have been caused by an accidental fall.
Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser told the jury in his opening statements that there is no indication that Kinsley had been anything but loved during her life, but that changed after Kinner began dating Young in 2015.
Discipline of Kinsley, Gmoser said, was left to Young. He then outlined previous injuries Kinsley suffered at Young’s hands.
Young was alone on the couch with Kinsley when the fatal injuries happened, Gmoser told the jury.
“Brad said he was alone on the couch with the child, she went limp and that is when (he) went to get the mother,” Gmoser told the jury.
When taken away by detectives from the Radabaugh Road house were Kinsley was found unresponsive, Young texted Kinner and said, “say we were both on the couch together so they don’t try to turn it around on you or me.”
Defense attorney Frank Schiavone III, however, told the jury it was Kinner, not Young, who was controlling in the relationship.
With days of meeting on Facebook, Kinner had offered sex to Young and was sending him naked photographs of herself, Schiavone III told the jury.
Defense attorneys also said Kinner only fed Kinsley fruit snacks (similar to gummy candies) and cereal and depended on Young to give her money for food.
Kinner has changed her testimony about what happened to Kinsley multiple times, Schiavone III said. He also told jurors that Kinner was smoking a cigarette on the front porch while EMTs were trying to revive Kinsley.
The jury also spent about 10 minutes Tuesday morning inside the Radabaugh Road house where Young lived with Kinner, before returning to the courtroom for opening statements.
A pathologist and police officers are expected to testify today in day three of the trial.
Kinner, who is serving an 11-year sentence after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, permitting child abuse and endangering children in the death Kinsley, is expected to take the stand later this week.
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