Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Prior abuse suspected in infant death

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about two weeks before the baby died.

In another instance, a different child told investigat­ors that he saw Reeves shake Kami, twist her, throw her in the air and then put a blanket over her face to try to get her to stop crying, the detectives said.

In the video, Reeves denied the allegation­s. He told investigat­ors that he did remember holding Kami in those instances, but he denied shaking her or swinging her around by the ankle.

He also repeatedly denied that he harmed Kami on the night she was fatally injured.

“I didn’t listened to testimony from do anything Abdulrezak Shakir, aforensic to pathologis­t in the that kid,” Allegheny County Medical he said at Examiner’s office. Dr. Shakir one point. described Kami’s injuries

Reeves — six bruises on her showed little face and severe bleeding emotion on the right side of her while brain — as well as several watching other contusions. the video He also discovered that Thursday. Ms. Vojtash at Kami had an older, healing times cried and sometimes fracture in her arm, he said. shook her head as she Dr. Shakir estimated watched the tape. that the fracture had occurred

The jury will watch the seven to 14 days before remainder of the interrogat­ion he conducted the autopsy. video when the trial resumes Tuesday morning.

In addition to watching the interrogat­ion video, the jury on Thursday also

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