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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Autopsy: Amarah died from blunt force trauma, decapitation

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Carisa Lee
391 days ago
20240412

An au­top­sy re­port on four-year-old Ama­rah Lal­lite con­clud­ed that she died from blunt force trau­ma to the head and de­cap­i­ta­tion.

Guardian Me­dia al­so learnt that there was no in­di­ca­tion that the de­cap­i­ta­tion hap­pened af­ter she died. The re­port al­so stat­ed there were no signs of any sex­u­al trau­ma.

Up to late yes­ter­day evening, the po­lice were at the Of­fice of the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions (DPP) who would de­ter­mine the sus­pect’s fate.

The au­top­sy re­port con­firmed her fa­ther Shan­non Lal­lite’s great­est fear, that Ama­rah suf­fered the night she was killed at her Fifth Street, Five Rivers, Arou­ca, home.

Af­ter he vis­it­ed the Foren­sic Sci­ence Cen­tre yes­ter­day to view his daugh­ter’s body, Lal­lite spoke with Guardian Me­dia where he re­vealed that the tod­dler was miss­ing an eye, her lips were cut open and her face had mul­ti­ple wounds.

“I would say over 40 stabs on her face,” the fa­ther said as he cried.

He even took a pic­ture of Ama­rah’s body as proof of the hor­rif­ic in­juries.

“If she’s lis­ten­ing to dad­dy now, I want to let you know that I love you and I will al­ways love you, and you will al­ways be my lit­tle di­a­mond, my one and on­ly child, I re­al love you and I miss you,” he said as he be­came emo­tion­al.

Lal­lite re­mem­bered when he be­came a fa­ther four years ago, he de­scribed it as one of the best times in his life.

“I felt re­al hap­py when I saw her look­ing in­to my eyes, it have times and all when she was in the crib and all, I take her to come on the bed with meh and the moth­er said no...but I want­ed her so close to meh (sic) that she would be right there,” he re­called.

He said af­ter he sep­a­rat­ed from Ama­rah’s moth­er he asked the po­lice if he could keep the ba­by but be­cause she was young he said he was ad­vised to leave her with the moth­er. As Ama­rah got old­er Lal­lite said he made nu­mer­ous at­tempts to see her and hope­ful­ly get cus­tody of his child, but he was un­suc­cess­ful.

“All how I try to like to drop things for like Christ­mas, birth­day and all these things, some­times I leave them by oth­er neigh­bours, I try to call the broth­er, no­body could get on to them,” he claimed.

He said the last time he saw his daugh­ter was when she was pass­ing in a car dur­ing the Christ­mas sea­son.

“She looked hap­py, bub­bly, jump­ing on the seat and thing,” he shared.

She was with the sus­pect and her moth­er. Yes­ter­day, Lal­lite de­fend­ed Ama­rah’s moth­er in the face of pub­lic crit­i­cism fol­low­ing the child’s mur­der.

“She would nev­er do her child that, she loved her daugh­ter...I see with my own two eyes, she is a lov­ing per­son to kids, it looks like she had no con­trol, like he was in con­trol,” he said.

Lal­lite shared that what­ev­er the sus­pect’s judg­ment is, Ama­rah was not com­ing back. He lament­ed that he would nev­er get a chance to make fa­ther/daugh­ter mem­o­ries with her.

“I nev­er talk to my daugh­ter over the phone, I nev­er sit down and watch a car­toon with my daugh­ter, go some­where with my daugh­ter, for her to get ice cream, go to the mall, the beach, oth­er fam­i­ly rel­a­tives, noth­ing,” the fa­ther cried.


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