Mother’s boyfriend ‘beat toddler to death’, court told
Roxie Archer suffered a “devastating” fatal brain injury after she was said to have been “forcibly and repeatedly punched” by Ben Raftery, 21, while in his sole care.
Raftery dialled 999 in the early hours of March 10 last year to say that Roxie had fallen down the stairs at her home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester. She died the next day in Tameside Hospital but it emerged she had also suffered extensive bruising and retinal haemorrhaging.
