A medical expert says a six-year-old boy who was beaten to death by an older child on a Saskatchewan reserve had injuries similar to those seen in high-speed car crashes or a 10-metre fall.
Dr. Shaun Ladham testified at a coroner’s inquest into the death of Lee Bonneau, who was found with head injuries in a wooded area on the Kahkewistahaw reserve in 2013.
He was last seen walking with an older boy outside the reserve’s recreation complex while his foster mother was playing bingo.
Ladham, who is a forensic pathologist, says Lee’s cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head causing multiple skull fractures.
Saskatchewan’s children’s advocate determined that the 10-year-old boy who killed Lee had behavioural issues and probably shouldn’t have been in the community unsupervised.
Because he was under 12, he could not be charged under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
(The Canadian Press)