Two child welfare workers are also on trial, charged with failing to ensure weekly visits to check on Danieal Kelly's welfare.
The girl, who had cerebral palsy and could not move about or care for herself, was found dead on Aug. 4, 2006 in a two-bedroom West Philadelphia apartment she shared with her mother and eight siblings.
An autopsy ruled that she starved to death. Her weight was down from 100 to 42 pounds, and she was found on an excrement-stained mattress, her back pocked with deep bedsores.
The jury also heard testimony Monday that there was almost no paperwork involving Danieal Kelly or her family when detectives searched the cubicle of Dana Poindexter, 54, the Department of Human Services social worker assigned to investigate neglect allegations. What paperwork existed was at the bottom of a five-foot-tall cardboard box filled with trash, debris, and unopened mail.
Other prosecution witnesses testified that Mickal Kamuvaka, 62, the head of MultiEthnic Behavioral Health Inc., a DHS subcontractor, held a mandatory staff meeting on Aug. 4, 2006, to create paperwork to document twice-weekly visits to the Kelly household that never happened.
Prosecutors are expected to complete their case Tuesday.
Kelly's lawyer Earl G. Kauffman, with the agreement of judge and prosecutors, was allowed to call Ward to testify out of turn, in the middle of the prosecution case, to accommodate her flight schedule.
Ward, who lived with Daniel Kelly and children Danieal and Daniel Jr. from 1995 to 1999 in Pittsburgh and then Phoenix, provided crucial testimony supporting the elder Kelly.
Ward, who also had three daughters with Kelly during their time together, wept continually as she remembered her two stepchildren.
