Adopted child killed by UK man in just 2 weeks

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Nov 06, 2017, 10:36 PM

Adopted child killed by UK man in just 2 weeks

South Wales Cardiff Crown Court heard the case of toddler Elsi Scully-Hicks who died in May 2016. The cause of the death was fractured skull. The toddler died just two weeks after being formally adopted by defendant Matthew Scully-Hicks and his husband.

A British man was on Monday convicted of killing his adopted 18-month-old baby after violently shaking her and striking her head which led to the Skull fracture.

The toddler sustained bruises, a broken leg and fell down a flight of stairs during the eight months that she was in the care of the 31-year-old fitness instructor.

Scully-Hicks told the court that he was unable to handle the pressures of bringing up the child, calling her “a psycho” and “Satan dressed up in a Babygro” in text messages.

Prosecutor Paul Lewis said the attack “required considerable force in gripping of the child because of the medical evidence of the fractures of the wrist. There must have been forceful shaking.

“There must have been gripping and shaking. Either her head was hit against a hard surface, or a hard object was used to strike Elsie to the head,” he added.