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North Wales PoliceA pair accused of murdering their two-year-old grandson, who died from a catastrophic mind damage, handled him with “casual brutality”, a court docket has heard.
Ethan Ives Griffiths was once found out “severely underweight, covered in bruises”, after he was once allegedly murdered by way of his grandparents, Michael and Kerry Ives in Garden City, Flintshire, on 16 August 2021.
Mr Ives, 46, and Mrs Ives, 45, are charged with homicide, inflicting or permitting the loss of life of a kid, and cruelty to a kid – which they deny.
At their trial at Mold Crown Court on Wednesday, the prosecutor mentioned the opposite youngsters were inspired to mistreat Ethan as “play”.
Ethan’s mom, Shannon Ives, 28, of Mold, Flintshire, is charged with inflicting or permitting the loss of life of a kid, and cruelty to a kid. She additionally denied the fees.
The court heard Ethan, his mother Shannon, and some of her other children were living with her parents in the summer of 2021.
Opening the prosecution’s case, Caroline Rees KC said: “[Ethan] was once quiet and withdrawn, small and painfully skinny”, by the time of his death.
He was targeted as an object of “abuse and forget,” and in the run-up to his death, experienced “misery, ache and distress”.
He collapsed on 14 August, 2021 after a “forceful assault” by those that should have cared for him most, the jury was told.
The prosecution said Mr and Mrs Ives were the only ones with him when he was assaulted, and his mother Shannon was upstairs on her phone.
His mother is not charged with murder, but the prosecution claimed she was aware he was at risk, and “did not anything to offer protection to him from that chance”.
Following the assault, his grandparents entered “a pact of silence as to what they did to Ethan that evening”.
They chose instead, to blame their daughter, the court heard.
Ms Rees added: “They each had one thing critical to cover, specifically that they have been each interested by inflicting his loss of life.”
She said Ethan was the victim of an assault on a “inclined, defenceless kid,” and added he was “handled with informal brutality by way of the folks depended on to offer protection to him.”
The trial continues.
