A Fayetteville dentist who examined bite marks on the body of 4-year-old Teghan Skiba in July 2010 testified Monday in the capital murder trial of her mother's boyfriend that the child had well-defined bite marks covering her body that matched "point-to-point" with her accused killer.
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"I had never seen a child with more injuries. I had never seen a human being with more injuries than I did on Teghan's body," said Dr. Richard Barbaro, who has specialized for 30 years in the field of forensic odontology. "I immediately said a prayer that she would die." . . .
Barbaro told jurors he was called to the hospital when Teghan was admitted to examine suspected bite marks. Prosecutors say there were more than 60 that covered her from head to toe on both the front and back of her body.
The bites ranged in severity, Barbaro said, describing a "Class 1" wound as being from a minor bite resulting in little, if any, pain. A "Class 5" wound, he said, would rip off skin and cause "excruciating" pain.
Teghan, he said, had bites ranging from Class 2 to Class 5.
"There were bite marks with a lot of detail," Barbaro said. "The dental evidence was very, very good on the crime scene, which was Teghan's body."
Barbaro said that authorities later took Richardson . . . to his office for dental impressions to compare Richardson's teeth to Teghan's wounds.
"I could not exclude him," Barbaro said. "Everywhere I checked matched him point-to-point."