Friday, October 16, 2015

Bulletin: Albert Omenged Debelbot and Ashley Deone Debelbot; Couple continues fight for new trial in infant's 2008 death. " Their defense attorneys over two days in mid-July presented witnesses who testified the child’s skull had a congenital abnormality that can go undetected. This condition in addition to the problematic birth at Fort Benning’s Martin Army Hospital could have caused internal bleeding in the brain, they said. Thursday was the prosecution’s turn to present evidence before Muscogee Superior Court Judge Art Smith III." The Ledger-Inquirer;

"A couple convicted of murder in the 2008 death of their newborn daughter were back in court Thursday in an ongoing effort to get a new trial. Sentenced to life in prison Oct. 29, 2009,have maintained their innocence in the death of daughter McKenzy, whom the couple’s defense team claims died as a result of abnormal development in the womb and a difficult delivery. The parents were convicted of crushing the infant’s skull. Their defense attorneys over two days in mid-July presented witnesses who testified the child’s skull had a congenital abnormality that can go undetected. This condition in addition to the problematic birth at Fort Benning’s Martin Army Hospital could have caused internal bleeding in the brain, they said. Thursday was the prosecution’s turn to present evidence before Muscogee Superior Court Judge Art Smith III. Assistant District Attorney Sadhana Dailey summoned Dr. Susan Palasis, a pediatric radiologist and neuroradiologist from Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, who refuted the defense evidence from July. She said McKenzy had skull fractures and massive bleeding from a “severe traumatic episode” comparable to what an unrestrained baby would sustain in a car wreck. “They were very bad fractures,” she said, adding she believed they were “intentionally inflicted,” not the result of a difficult birth.

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