The child was taken to the Siparia District Health facility on Sunday night where health care personnel pronounced her dead. The staff saw bruises on the child's body and called police.
The result of the post mortem conducted Wednesday
at the Forensic Science Centre by Dr. Valery Alexandrov showed that Aaliyah suffered acute blood loss and blunt trauma to the abdomen.
Alexandrov told the Express newspaper the child was punched in the abdominal area at least twice and there was no way she could have sustained her injuries by a fall.
"I can state with 1,000 per cent of medical certainty, and confidence that this injury to the liver under no circumstance could be sustained in a fall, but in my practice, every person who is assaulting a child usually claims that the child fell," the paper quoted him as saying.
"The bottom line is the child was abused by beating. I cannot state exactly how many blows were inflicted, but the ruptured wounds were on two separate parts of the liver," he added.
Alexandrov also stated that the child was weak and malnourished.
He also said there was no evidence of of sexual abuse. "I didn't see any injury to the private parts...She was physically assaulted and any physical assault against a child who cannot offer resistance or any defence is child abuse," Alexandrov said.
Police are questioning two relatives in connection with the child's death.
Related: Child development minister urges citizens to protect the children from abuse
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