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May 15, 2008

Bunnell trial: Jury returns to consider verdict

The jury in the trial of a 24-year-old woman charged with murder for the deadly beating of her 3-year-old nephew is set to resume deliberations today after spending three hours yesterday mulling the case.

Prosecutors say Katherine Bunnell dropped Thomas “T.J.” Wright on the floor and beat him after she returned home to find a mess in her Woonsocket apartment.

From the stand Tuesday, Bunnell denied the allegations, saying that she lightly slapped the child a few times.

Bunnell’s lawyer has suggested that the defendant’s former boyfriend, Gilbert Delestre, 27, was actually responsible for the child’s death. Delestre also faces murder charges. His trial is set to begin after Bunnell’s.

The child had been placed in their care after Bunnell's sister went to prison.

Judge Gilbert V. Indeglia directed the jury to return to Superior Court, Providence, this morning to continue deliberations.

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