Infant's fatal injuries weren't accidental, murder trial told

‘The eyes are examined significantly when there is a historical past of suspected trauma. The retinal scan … confirmed a number of areas of hemorrhage’

Anthony Karl Kurucz is charged with second-degree homicide within the loss of life of his three-month-old son. Picture by Fb

The extreme head accidents which led to the loss of life of a Calgary toddler weren’t the results of unintentional trauma, a neuropathologist testified Wednesday.

Dr. Atilano Lacson advised courtroom he examined the mind, eyes and spinal cord of little Jayden Cyluck Kurucz following the three-month-old’s April 27, 2018, loss of life at Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital.

The Edmonton doctor mentioned the kid’s inside accidents and lack of exterior trauma have been in keeping with being attributable to an acceleration and deceleration of his head, one thing that would occur when a child is shaken, or thrown onto a smooth floor, like a sofa, a number of instances.

“It will rely what number of instances that throwing happens,” Lacson advised Crown prosecutor Hyatt Mograbee.

He mentioned shaking would make the mind transfer “entrance to again, or aspect to aspect.”

“All of that makes the mind transfer throughout the cranial cavity,” Lacson mentioned.

Such an injury would trigger adjustments to the neurons, which transmit data between completely different areas of the mind and between the mind and different components of the physique.

“The neurons are actually simply ghosts of themselves,” Lacson mentioned of such adjustments.

“On this case a lot of the neurons within the mind and the spinal cord have undergone comparable adjustments.”

An examination of the eyes helps to find out the reason for the accidents.

“The eyes are examined significantly when there’s a historical past of suspected trauma,” he mentioned.

“The retinal scan … confirmed a number of areas of hemorrhage.”

Anthony Karl Kurucz is charged with second-degree homicide within the loss of life of Jayden, who died two days after the accused referred to as 911 to report his son was in medical misery.

Lacson mentioned he reviewed Jayden’s medical historical past and famous the kid was beforehand wholesome.

“It is rather vital so far as I can inform from my evaluation of the scientific historical past that Jayden had been declared regular the day earlier than, I imagine, by his pediatrician,” Lacson mentioned.

“This youngster … had been wholesome as much as that time.”

In line with an announcement of agreed information, the boy was seen by a physician April 23, and located to be a “wholesome youngster.”

Primarily based on his examination Lacson concluded the kid’s loss of life was the results of “non-accidental trauma.”

“This affected person had been subjected to acceleration/deceleration forces as a result of we didn’t discover any exterior accidents,” he mentioned.

“That’s very in keeping with non-accidental trauma.”

However Lacson mentioned he couldn’t put a time estimate on when the accidents occurred relative to EMS displaying as much as discover the child in cardiac arrest.

The trial continues on Thursday.

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