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.