BUTLER COUNTY — UPDATE @ 3 p.m.:
A radiologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center testified that the bleeding in Kinsley’s brain was not consistent with a child falling off a table, which is what prosecutors say Bradley Young told the child’s mother.
Dr. Marguerite Care, a witness called by the prosecution in the second day of Young's murder trial, testified that the toddler's brain showed bleeding where the head hooks into the spine.
“Not the location we are going to see from a simple fall,” Care said.
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A second doctor testified that Kinsley most likely was “violently shaken.”
Dr. Virginia Utz, pediatric ophthalmologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, said Kinsley had significant retinal hemorrhage in her eyes, which would have affected her sight.
During cross examination by the defense, Utz testified it was possible that a blood issue could have caused the retinal hemorrhage.
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Several medical witnesses are expected to take the stand today.
UPDATE @ 12:30 p.m.:
After spending about 10 minutes this morning inside the Radabaugh Road house where Bradley Young lived with Rebekah Kinner, the jury returned to the courtroom for opening statements in the murder trial.
Young is charged with murder, felony child endangering and involuntary manslaughter for the beating death of 2-year-old Kinsley Kinner.
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Butler County Prosecutor Michael Gmoser told the jury in his opening statements that there is no indication that Kinsley had been anything but loved during her life, but that changed after Kinner began dating Young in 2015.
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Discipline of Kinsley, Gmoser said, was left to Young. He then painted a picture for jurors of previous injuries that he said Kinsley received at the hands of Young.
Defense attorney Frank Schiavone IV, however, told the jury it was Kinner, not Young, who was controlling in the relationship.
With days of meeting on Facebook, Kinner had offered sex to Young and was sending him naked photographs of herself, Schiavone IV told the jury.
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Defense attorneys continued to paint Kinner as an unfit mother during their opening statements, saying she only fed Kinsley fruit snacks (similar to gummy candies) and cereal and depended on Young to give her money for food.
According to defense attorney Frank Schiavone III, Kinner has changed her testimony about what happened to Kinsley multiple times.
He also told jurors that Kinner was smoking a cigarette on the front porch while EMTs were trying to revive Kinsley.
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The court is now taking a break and the trial will resume this afternoon with testimony from medical experts.
ORIGINAL REPORT:
The jury of nine women and three men, plus two alternates, began the second day of the Bradley Young murder trial with a visit to Madison Twp. where toddler Kinsley Kinner was fatally injured.
After some brief instructions by Butler County Common Pleas Judge Keith Spaeth, the jury under guard of sheriff's deputies and a court bailiff travelled to the Radabaugh Road house where Young lived with his girlfriend Rebekah Kinner, who is Kinsley's mother.
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Spaeth told the jurors that some things may be pointed out inside the house, “but evidence of appearance of the scene must be from the witness stand.”
Young talked with his defense team before court began, but waived his right to attend the jury view. Opening statements are expected to begin about 10:30 a.m. when the jury returns.