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CALGARY — Before she died on a Monday, six-year-old Meika Jordan allegedly endured four days of torture and abuse.

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“Meika was covered in bruises,” Crown prosecutor Susan Pepper said this week. “She was dirty and her hair was matted. Chunks of it were missing. There was a dirty bandage on her left hand.’’

Her father and stepmother, Spencer Jordan, 29, and Marie Magoon, 25, face charges of first-degree murder in Meika’s death. Both have pleaded not guilty.

As their trial began in a Calgary courtroom this week, the prosecution outlined its theory about how paramedics came to find the once outgoing and happy child ‘‘clinically dead’’ at the bottom of a set of stairs at her home. She was rushed to Alberta Children’s Hospital, but died the following day, not long after family members said their final goodbyes to the blond-haired girl.

“Our theory is that Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon committed many of the acts of violence against Meika between Thursday and Sunday, Nov. 10 to 13, 2011,” Ms. Pepper said.

She said the violence allegedly inflicted by the father included Meika being pushed to the floor, causing her to hit her head, being punched in the stomach, dragged up stairs by her ankles and by her hair, and being thrown up the stairs, causing her to hit her head on a stove.