Children cyber-bullied Ana by commenting with death threats on her YouTube account and sending her Snapchat messages mocking her height and the fact she was adopted, the court heard
was severely and “endlessly” bullied by other children in the period before her alleged murder, her mother has told the Central criminal Court.
Geraldine Kriégel told the jury on the first full day of the trial that she and her husband adopted Ana from Russia when she was two and a half years old. “She loved dancing. She spent hours in our front room, listening to music, practising her moves, singing, dancing.” As a result her mother got her contact lenses instead of glasses.
People would post “nasty comments” on these, her mother said, such as “go die” and “I would have you executed.” Her parents sent her for counselling at which she made good progress. The councillors had to ask her father to pick Ana up as she was so scared to walk home alone because of the bullying. She was not academic and struggled with her studies due to her hearing and because she only began learning English after her adoption.
Her death was caused by severe head and neck injuries. She also had injuries suggesting attempted penetration of her vagina. The pathologist judged she had been violently sexually assaulted.Ana had been reported missing three days earlier at 9pm by her parents Geraldine and Patrick. Boy B then told gardaí he called to Ana on behalf of Boy A. He said Ana was “interested” in Boy A and Boy A wanted to tell her he wasn’t interested in her.Gardaí then contacted Boy A who gave a different account. “Divergences began to emerge,” counsel said.
He said Boy B sourced the builders tape and “voyeuristically” watched what happened to Ana. He also helped in the cover-up by lying to gardaí, counsel said. He said if a bank robber went in and pointed a gun at the teller, the getaway driver outside would also be guilty of robbery, as would the person tasked with sourcing the getaway car .”Even if he wasn’t at the scene.”
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