Girl, 2, burned with lighter and human bite marks on her body when she was found dead, court hears 

A toddler suffered more than two dozen wounds including burns from a cigarette lighter to her face, limbs and genitals in the lead-up to her death, a court has heard.

Mohammed Khazma, 25, is accused of killing his girlfriend’s two-year-old girl inside a Guildford flat the couple had just moved into weeks after meeting via Facebook in December 2016.

Khazma has pleaded not guilty to murdering the girl and, in the days before her death, assaulting her by burning her with a cigarette lighter and slamming her head into a wall, causing her actual bodily harm. 

He also denies that in the preceding days he assaulted the two-year-old by burning her with a lighter and slamming her head into a wall, causing her actual bodily harm

In the New South Wales Supreme Court on Thursday, Forensic pathologist Lorraine du Toit-Prinsloo testified there were about 28 human bite marks on the two-year-old’s arms, legs and buttocks.

She said there were also burns in the shape of a cigarette lighter, inflicted before her death caused by ‘blunt force trauma’.

A post-mortem showed the toddler suffered ‘massive bleeding’ in her skull, consistent with a traumatic injury, Dr Toit-Prinsloo said. 

Khazma’s barrister, Luke Brasch, has previously told the jury the victim’s mother caused her injuries and death but blamed her then-boyfriend to cover up her guilt. 

The trial continues before Justice Elizabeth Fullerton.

Pictured is the home where Khazma is accused of abusing the little girl in 2016