Bone X-ray found Bella to be 15 years old in 2020, court told

Rumah Bonda founder Siti Bainun arriving at the court complex for the trial on July 21. – Bernamapic

KUALA LUMPUR: The Sessions Court here was told that Bella, the teenager with Down Syndrome at the centre of an abuse trial here, was determined to be 15 years old by a bone age X-ray examination in 2020.

The medical officer at the Radiology Department of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Dr B. Anulaawathi, said the girl’s age was found to be 15 after analysis was made through three aspects: chronological age, brush foundation data and based on the reference book The Radiographic Atlas Skeletal Development of the Hand and Wrist Book by Greulich and Pyle.