It already has been revealed that the body of 11-year-old Jacqueline “Mimi” Torres weighed about 27 pounds when it was found in a storage tote outside an abandoned home in New Britain last month, a weight the medical examiner conducting her autopsy attributed to “severe malnourishment” and not the advanced state of decomposition the body was in, according to arrest warrant affidavits in the case.

Now Chief State Medical Examiner Dr. James Gill has ruled that Mimi’s cause of death was fatal child abuse with starvation and that it was a homicide.

Torres’ mother, 29-year-old Karla Garcia, her boyfriend, 30-year-old Jonatan Nanita, and Garcia’s sister, 28-year-old Jackelyn Garcia are charged in connection with the child’s death.

Mom of child found in bin outside CT home facing charges

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