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Sean Luke, 6, was murdered in 2006.
FORENSIC pathologist Dr Easlyn McDonald-Burris on Monday provided harrowing details of the injuries that contributed to the brutal death of six-year-old Sean Luke.
She admitted the boy’s autopsy traumatised her, and, 15 years and hundreds of autopsies later, still had an effect on her.
Mc Donald-Burris spent all of Monday testifying at the trial of the two men – Akeel Mitchell and Richard Chatoo – charged with Luke’s murder sometime between March 25 and 29, 2006.
Luke was sodomised with a sugar cane stalk that ruptured his intestines and internal organs. He died from internal bleeding.
McDonald-Burris’s official conclusion on the cause of death was “internal chest and abdominal injuries and hemorrhage due to a foreign object – a cane stalk – introduced into the body cavity.”