THE father of murdered 12-year-old Mercedez Layne broke down in tears yesterday, after learning the results of an autopsy which confirmed that his daughter died from blunt force trauma to the head.Ronald Cabrera, speaking to reporters at his home in Erin, said no punishment could ever undo the pain his family was experiencing.He called on the authorities to resume hangings, especially for criminals who kill innocent children.The autopsy was conducted on the body of the Erin RC Primary School student at the Forensic Science Centre at Federation Park.Mercedez’s partially clothed body was found near an oil well along Carapal Road, Erin, on Sunday morning, hours after she had been reported missing.Among the items found around her body: a pack with Lucky Strike cigarettes, the right side of a pair of slippers, a black plastic bag with four packs of Top Notch Ramen Noodles, a short blue denim pants, a piece of cloth, circular piece of wood, a broken beer body, and an item of undergarment.Cabrera said he was told the injuries to his daughter’s head caused the bleeding from her ears.“What am I supposed to do?” he asked. “Could anything bring back my daughter? You could get a million years. Could you bring back my daughter? And if I get a million years and I put my hands on him, would that bring back my daughter? Why taxpayers have to be paying for people who do certain crimes?”A 26-year-old man from Palo Seco remains in police custody as investigators continue enquiries into the child’s death.Cabrera later told the Express he believed that the return of the hangman would deter individuals inclined to a life of crime.“Is years these people doing things and nothing really happening. Most of them going in jail, spending a few years and they back out on the street. How could I get justice? What justice it have for me? So how could I say I will be getting justice? They should bring back hangings. That will deter others. These guys are coming back out in society. A lot of them are repeat offenders for the same crime as they come out, so why not implement public hanging? I’ve been saying this for years, not just because it is my daughter,” he said.He argued that the nation’s elders had failed to protect its children.“The system is failing. A lot of kids are dying and nothing is coming out of it. Let we be real. Nothing is coming out of it,” he added.