Goforth trial: Officers testify about finding 2nd injured girl

Jurors in Regina learned how police found a second child, aged two, who had been in the care of Kevin and Tammy Goforth the Regina couple accused of 2nd-degree murder in the death of a four year old in August 2012 and causing harm to her younger sister.

The older child had been taken to hospital suffering from malnutrition and dehydration and was later found to have suffered brain damage from a cardiac arrest. That child died in hospital after being removed from life support.

According to testimony Thursday, police were called to the hospital on Aug. 1, 2012, to look into an allegation of assault regarding the older child. At the hospital, an officer encountered the accused couple who said there were other children.

Acting on that, officers looked through the Goforth home and not finding anyone then checked another Regina address and the girl was found in a bedroom.

"She was very thin, very frail. I noticed large bruising on her eye and cheek," Sgt. Shelly Sulmyka told the jury.

"She didn't blink, she didn't acknowledge anybody around her and she didn't move," Sulmyka added. The girl was also taken to hospital.

Officers involved in the case also said Thursday that the Goforths, who were at the hospital, appeared very upset and were crying and curled up together on a chair.

Both children had been in the care of the Goforths since late 2011.

• Child protection worker testifies at trial for Regina couple accused of killing girl, 4

Key events prior to trial of Regina couple accused of killing a girl and harming her younger sister

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Here is a timeline of key events that occurred prior to the trial of Kevin and Tammy Goforth. The Regina couple is charged with killing a girl, 4, and harming her sister.

Jurors have learned that the two children were in seven different homes in 18 months after being taken into care by officials in 2010.

Testimony from witnesseswho had the children in their care, before the Goforths, described the girls as happy and energetic.

A witness said there was only one food the girls didn't like to eat, broccoli.