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Pathologist Dr. Valery Alexndradrov said that a blunt force trauma was the cause of the death of Keyana Cumberbatch whose body was found stuffed in a barrel in a bedroom at her home.

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, Friday Nov 29, 2013, CMC – A six-year-old schoolgirl, whose body was found in a barrel at her home on Thursday, had been sexually assaulted while unconscious and dying, according to the results of an autopsy done on Friday.

Pathologist Dr. Valery Alexndradrov said that a blunt force trauma was the cause of the death of Keyana Cumberbatch whose body was found stuffed in a barrel in a bedroom at her home.

“She sustained massive cranial cerebral trauma, which means there was trauma to the skull and the brain and the trauma to the skull was so extensive that all the (wounds) were open,” he said, adding that before the autopsy, X- rays were done, and there were no previous fractures “.

The pathologist also told reporters that there was no immediate evidence of previous sexual abuse. However, this would be investigated further using microscopic examination.

He said he could not give an approximate time of death.

Residents became angry and called for justice as the body was being removed from the apartment at Maloney, east of here.

Police said the smell of decomposing flesh  alerted the school girl’s mother, Simone Williams, 27, to the terrible possibility that her eldest daughter’s body may have been inside  the apartment since Monday when she was reported missing while returning from the St Barbara’s Shouter Baptist Primary School, where she was a second-year pupil.

A male relative of the girl has been in police custody since Tuesday. He was arrested after residents reported to police that he was the last person to be seen with the girl prior to her disappearance.

Meanwhile, former Gender, Youth and Child Development Minister Verna St Rose Greaves stormed the Trinidad and Tobago Parliament accusing the Kamla Persad Bissessar-led coalition government of being insensitive to the death of children.

Her action forced the suspension of the Parliament for 10 minutes.

The former minister, who had been staging a one person protest outside the Parliament building, said there had been enough talk and the time had come for action to protect children.

She said the murder of the six-year old school child could have been prevented if the Children’s Authority Act was in force.

The former minister said the government continues to play games with the lives of the children and this cannot be allowed to continue.

She said Prime Minister Persad Bissessar has failed the nation’s children.

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