The abrasions found on Malena’s face are the result of pressure exerted by a hand, according to the assessment of the head of the Forensic Service, Nikos Karakoukis, who testified for the second day in the trial before the MoD of the mother from Patras for the death of the two youngest girls. her.

The witness repeated that the findings identified by the forensic audit point to suffocation suffered by Malena, inside the Children’s Hospital, while he gave answers regarding the abrasions that appear on the child’s face.

“It’s from pressure, it’s born alive, it could come from a hand, from a palm,” said Mr. Karakoukis, rejecting the version that the signs are due to the CPR mask.

With the accused absent from the bench, Mr. Karakoukis, answering the president’s question whether Malena could have been injured during CPR, said: “The mask is made of silicone and is also wider. So even if we assume it did cause injuries, they wouldn’t be in those places on the child’s face.”

The witness also testified that when CPR started “the child was dead, he was dead half an hour before. What trauma to create? We had no blood circulation, the child’s heart had stopped, there was nothing” while he emphasized that “the abrasions on Malena were caused with bare nails. They’re red, so it’s a live reaction.”

The medical examiner emphasized that death by suffocation does not leave injuries on small children as they cannot react, as an adult reacts.

Finally, he reiterated that as the cause of Malena’s death, not only is there no issue of liver failure, but not even an issue of inflammation. Mr. Karakoukis explained that Malena did not even show jaundice in her eyes, a finding which would be indicative of liver failure, but not even inflammation, as her overall picture and her tests before she died were good: “The child and the had examined. They found nothing… he had no pathological findings, no toxicology. But we have the remaining findings – congestion, vacuolar degeneration, cyanosis and lesions. All these elements, combined, point only to suffocation death,” he said, ruling out pathological causes.