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Baby bashed, burnt and raped, court told as Mervyn Kenneth Douglas Bell stands trial
August 19, 2014
THE mother of a baby boy who died after he was allegedly beaten, raped and burned by his stepfather has described the violent hours leading to her son’s death.
Mervyn Kenneth Douglas Bell went on trial in the Supreme Court today, pleading not guilty to murdering and sexually assaulting the baby last year.
He is accused of taking the 10-month-old child away from his mother in Broome and assaulting him over a 15-hour period before taking his body to the Fortescue River Road House on March 19 last year.
The boy’s mother was the first witness to take the stand, describing how Bell beat her naked in a Broome street. She also tearfully recalled the moment police told her the boy had died.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...028376122?nk=33b7f8fbe17a90ca0312831b3a1c3d54
August 19, 2014
THE mother of a baby boy who died after he was allegedly beaten, raped and burned by his stepfather has described the violent hours leading to her son’s death.
Mervyn Kenneth Douglas Bell went on trial in the Supreme Court today, pleading not guilty to murdering and sexually assaulting the baby last year.
He is accused of taking the 10-month-old child away from his mother in Broome and assaulting him over a 15-hour period before taking his body to the Fortescue River Road House on March 19 last year.
The boy’s mother was the first witness to take the stand, describing how Bell beat her naked in a Broome street. She also tearfully recalled the moment police told her the boy had died.
http://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wes...028376122?nk=33b7f8fbe17a90ca0312831b3a1c3d54