Jury sees horror pics of pregnant sex abuse victim Sandra Birchmores body after cop staged it to look like a suicide

A jury in Boston Tuesday saw gruesome photos of Sandra Birchmore’s body allegedly staged to look like a suicide by the cop accused of sexually abusing her as an underage teen and then murdering her when he learned she was pregnant.The graphic images were shown at the Boston federal trial against disgraced ex-cop Matthew Farwell after the 23-year-old was found dead in her Canton apartment on Feb.4, 2021, according to a report by NBC 10 Boston.The pictures showed Birchmore, her heavily pregnant belly exposed, in the sparely furnished apartment where she had just moved in.Her body leans near a door, with a ligature visible.

Her face is blue-purple and her pregnant stomach appears bruised and discolored.The Post is choosing not to publish the graphic images, which were released publicly by the US Attorney’s office.Some of the jurors appeared uncomfortable, shifting in their chairs and touching their eyes, as they were shown disturbing photos several times during testimony from the officer who found her.“I saw a deceased body in a bedroom,” Canton police Officer Ensley Cotard told the jury on the first day of testimony at Farwell’s trial.Cotard said he didn’t see any signs of a struggle, but he noted he wasn’t investigating a crime scene but rather just checking if Birchmore was okay after her boss reported that she failed to show up to work.The cop didn’t see a suicide note, he said, — and explained he was only inside for roughly eight minutes.“My job was a well-being check on Ms.Birchmore,” he said.Prosecutors alleged during opening statements Friday that Farwell, 40, strangled Birchmore three days earlier on Feb.

1, because she was threatening to expose their affair to his wife, who had his third child the day after Birchmore’s death.Birchmore had told Farwell she was carrying was his baby — a fact they both believed despite DNA testing after the fact concluding Farwell was not the father, prosecutors said.Farwell began sexually abusing Bir...