(Trois-Rivières) The jury in the trial of the mother-in-law of the girl from Granby was confronted with photos very hard to look at on Thursday. The crime scene technician Charles Camiré notably presented images of a pile of “molded” adhesive tape on which was brown hair.
He also showed a shirt, the sleeves tied together, which was lying on the floor in the room where the lifeless victim was when help arrived. “The sleeves were tied together. They were tied. Really a knot. Well attached, ”explained Mr. Camiré.
The 38-year-old mother-in-law is believed to have wrapped the seven-year-old girl in duct tape. She is charged with second degree murder and confinement of the child.
Charles Camiré, the fifth witness in this trial, presented photos of the room, with the yellow and pale green wall, where the unconscious child was on the morning of April 29, 2019. The furniture and the little pink bed were stacked in front of the windows, according to the photos shown to the 14 jurors. A learning pot and a lamp without a shade were placed on the ground.
The Sûreté du Québec technician identified several small pieces of adhesive tape, two pairs of scissors, a “pink pompom beanie” and a khaki adult shirt that were also lying on the ground. “A good part of the bottom [du vêtement] was wet and the right side at shoulder level was wet. The sleeves were tied together, ”explained Mr. Camiré.
In the hallway leading to the bedroom, the technician noticed a roll of clear, wide tape, on a filing cabinet. On the ground, still in the corridor, he found remains of sticky paper “stuck together”, with a “rounded shape”. “It was like a little molded, this pile of adhesive tape, stuck together. It had a certain form. And the dimension was 13 cm by 41 cm, ”he explained.
“There was brown hair stuck to the duct tape. There were still quite a few. And we see pink fibers, ”he continued.
The crime scene technician also came to the Fleurimont Hospital in Sherbrooke to photograph the marks on the child’s body. She was in a coma. He noted marks ranging from 0.5 to 3 cm in width on the cheek, on the inside of the knee, on the right hand near the thumb. The child’s wrist was 3 centimeters wide, Camiré said.
Cross-examination of the witness will begin on Thursday afternoon.
The trial is taking place in Trois-Rivières and is scheduled to last six to eight weeks.
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