Bahamas: Officials rule out sexual assault in 4-year-old's death
There is no evidence to suggest that 4-year-old D’Onya Bella Walker was sexually assaulted before her tragic death last week in The Bahamas.
This was confirmed by Bahamian National Security Minister Wayne Munroe as he spoke to the media yesterday outside the parliament building in Nassau.
He said the lack of sexual abuse should not diminish the seriousness of the trauma she suffered.
“I’ve received no information of sexual assault. But for myself, I don’t understand why that would be necessary if you have physical injuries that caused the death of a young girl. To me, that is enough. To me, that is sufficient to be outraged about,” he said.
“I understand the public’s appetite for [information], but at the end of the day, I’m sufficiently outraged by [a] young child being killed that I don’t require anything additional to be outraged,” he said outside of Parliament.
He continued: “We don’t need to insinuate anything more into something than is there. If a child dies, if it is by violence, [it] is unacceptable. I don’t understand that people don’t see that as sufficient.”
The minister noted that public outrage from these incidents tends to fade after a few days with no results.
Rumours circulated on social media that Walker was sexually assualted before she was taken to the Princess Margaret Hospital last Friday by her mother.
An autopsy confirmed that she died due to blunt force trauma to the body that resulted in multiple fractures.
Walker’s mother and her boyfriend are expected to appear in court today.
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