SAN ANTONIO - Testimony in the trial of Brandon Cervera continued on Thursday.He's the local man accused of staving his 4-year-old son Benji to death.He remai
Testimony in the trial of Brandon Cervera continued on Thursday. He's the local man accused of staving his 4-year-old son Benji to death. He remained unfazed as the medical examiner was on the stand. During her testimony, photos of Benji 's body were presented to show just how severely malnourished he was.
While the prosecution was presenting the photos, the medical examiner testified that Benji was underweight at the time of the autopsy.Cervera told investigators that the wounds on Benjamin's body were self-inflicted. Photographs and video taken from the cell phone of a relative staying in the apartment were said to have contained evidence of Benjamin "hitting himself on the head with his hands and asking for bread.
After obtaining a search warrant, detectives searched the apartment and found locks on the refrigerator, kitchen cabinets, pantry door and Benjamin's bedroom door, which were meant to lock him inside the room.you could see his ribs sticking out, signifying that he was malnourished. She also said that at the time of the autopsy, Benji weighed just 28 pounds, but it could have been less because of the fluids they had put in his body beforehand.
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