BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) — Several months after Genesis Mata was found killed in a bath tub at a La Quinta Inn, an official cause of death has yet to be determined. This is in part due to the totality of injuries that the child sustained.

That's according to testimony given by a forensic patholigist Tuesday during a preliminary hearing for Ray Mata Jr. and Graciela Bustamante, the father and stepmother accused of torturing and killing of the 8-year-old earlier this year.

Prosecutor Leanne Wilder led witnesses through hours of evidence collected from the La Quinta Inn on Riverside Drive, where officers discovered Genesis’s body in a bathtub in early August. Photos shown in court depicted the young girl severely emaciated, covered in burns, puncture wounds, and scars.

As photos of the c

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