As the Bexar County medical examiner testified about Mercedes Losoya's injuries, one of the defendant's lawyers became ill.
Mercedes Losoya was beaten so badly and in so many places, her kidneys had begun to fail due to the breakdown of her muscles, the chief medical examiner of Bexar County said as the child injury trial of Jose Angel Ruiz continued Friday. The fluids that infiltrated the 5-year-old girl’s body combined with other chemicals and the resulting renal failure might have caused her death, Dr. Kimberley Molina said.
Man accused in torture-slaying of 5-year-old blamed mom, sister She described the final weeks of Mercedes’ life as near-constant violence and humiliation inflicted by Ruiz. Mendoza is to be sentenced after Ruiz’s trial is finished. Throughout the trial, defense attorneys have brought up that Mercedes had asthma, but during a hearing prior to her testimony, Molina said asthma had been ruled out as a cause of death.
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