A 15 month-old girl died after she was given alcohol, burned with chemicals and raped while in the care of a babysitter, her aunt claims. Meka Marie Carillo died in Fargo, North Dakota, on Tuesday, four days after she was found unresponsive at a home in the city.
Meka was put on life support, but had been too badly injured to survive, and her family removed it four days later. Fargo Police say they are still awaiting the results of an autopsy and toxicology report to determine if Meka was the victim of a crime, the Star Tribune reported.
But the toddler’s aunt Amanda Carillo has taken to GoFundMe to share disturbing details of what she claims happened to her niece. Carillo, who also shared a disturbing photo of Meka taken in hospital, wrote: ‘The individual we trusted with Meka’s care kept telling me “she’s just sick, Amanda, she’s just sick”.
‘I spoke to the detective and it became clear that Meka wasn’t just sick, she had been horribly abused, burned with chemicals, given alcohol, battered, and raped multiple ways.
‘There are even more horrific details to the torture and murder that I don’t want the world to have to suffer knowing but my family and I keep replaying in our heads. These thoughts will scar us and Meka’s young cousins for the rest of our lives.’
Carillo said the unnamed woman who was caring for Meka at the time had come to her house to tell her the little girl was being rushed to the emergency room.
Commenting on what happened when she arrived at the hospital, Carillo said: ‘They had brown paper evidence bags and rulers to measure the wounds and evidence recording equipment. I instantly got sick to my stomach.’
Carillo went on to allege that the babysitter had stopped Meka’s loved ones from seeing her shortly before she was fatally injured, and claimed ‘multiple people’ were involved in the youngster’s death.
She said that Meka’s father is in prison for an unrelated offense, and that she now hopes to have him granted temporary release so he can attend his daughter’s funeral.
Calling for justice for Meka over her alleged killing, Carillo added: ‘I want justice to be served for my niece, and not only prosecute the people that tortured and killed her, but I want to have lawyers to prosecute the people that knew about the abuse and stood by doing nothing.’
Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at webnews@metro.co.uk
For more stories like this, check our news page
from RSSMix.com Mix ID 8291209 https://ift.tt/3mdHYtb
No comments:
Post a Comment