In the dark of night, Quatisha Maycock, 5, was dumped in the Everglades to suffer a grisly fate: death by alligators.
The extent of the brutal injuries that Quatisha suffered were at the center of medical testimony presented in the ongoing death-penalty resentencing of Harrel Braddy, who was convicted almost two decades ago of killing Quatisha after kidnapping the girl and her mother.
The girl was alive when alligators mauled her, said Dr. Emma Lew, a forensic pathologist who formerly worked at the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office. But Lew said on Thursday she had “no way of knowing if [Quatisha] was conscious” when gators and other swamp critters bit parts of her body…