Medical examiner defends ruling in death of baby at Misawa

Medical examiner defends ruling in death of baby at Misawa
By Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Wednesday, January 16, 2008

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — It took Capt. James Caruso a “difficult” six months to declare 2-month-old Kylie Delgado’s death a homicide.

But the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa regional medical examiner defended his autopsy report Monday in the fourth day of testimony in the court-martial of the baby’s father.

Kylie’s “constellation” of injuries — a brain hemorrhage, three fractured ribs and bleeding in her retinas — couldn’t be explained any other way, he said.

“I looked at the whole picture,” Caruso said. “I put everything together and arrived at the conclusion that it had to be a homicide.”

Sailor Seaman Recruit Jonathan Delgado, 22, is accused of killing his daughter by shaking her.


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