Interesting - the complaint is actually pretty well articulated. For someone who claims the sort of serious mental health issues she does. I wonder which personality wrote it (sarcasm alert)
@NCWatcher I miss the interesting and factual information you bring to a case. So, I am glad to catch this. There are many risks performing an enema on a child and a potential of perforating the bowel. I haven't forgot a Munchausen's by proxy case and caring for a 13 month old with less than a foot of small bowel remaining. The mother was using enemas to harm the baby. God only knows all that LS was doing to this beautiful boy.I'm sure enemas can be and are used improperly. Many things can be. But I also suspect there are thousands of parents who give enemas to their children and they don't have any sort of "fetish."
The Internet is filled with instructions from reliable sources for giving enemas to children at home. Here are two examples. It's just not an odd thing to do. The implication that a parent isn't normal unless he/she is embarrassed to deal with a child's bowels doesn't help anyone. (And that was the implication from Dr. L in court I thought.)
Enemas at Home
Learn the correct way to give your child, who has been diagnosed with a colorectal condition, an enema at home. The experts at the International Center for Colorectal and Urogenital Care share how to make a home enema solution, when to give an enema to your child and more.www.childrenscolorado.org
What to Know About an Enema for Your Child at Home
Find out what you need to know about pediatric enemas, and discover their risks, benefits, and how they may affect health.www.webmd.com
We don't know what GS's bowel problems truly were except that he had them and they were fairly serious. They were also said to be related to his prematurity. Al testified he knew LS didn't like dealing with GS's bowel condition. But Al was gone alot and apparently it was her job. I don't know that she "volunteered" either. But she was the children's caretaker when AS was gone. Who else could have acted? She may have misused enemas-- we really don't know-- but the fact that she gave enemas at all is just not that unusual IMO.
<modsnip - off topic> I would not think that the need for an enema for a chronic childhood condition would typically involve going to the ER. (While the above links as well as others do point out the need for the parent to master the proper procedure, those sources don't suggest going to the ER either.) Any child or adult could at times require emergency care but an ER or even a doctor's office aren't typically needed to administer an enema.
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Does this mean that she currently holds no license or is this in a specific state?Her interest began in kindergarten, when a precocious desire to understand how a human being could be so cruel led her to try to figure out Adolf Hitler. After all, she was horrified when she watched her uncle slaughter a chicken on their farm in New Jersey. In Lewis ’ memoir, Guilty by Reason of Insanity: A Psychiatrist Explores the Minds of Killers, she recalls stories of the Nazi dictator hanging over her childhood as “a source of fascination and fear.” She was the only student in her elementary school “who did not rejoice upon hearing of Hitler’s suicide. Now I could never know what made him tick. … I was convinced, even as a child, that Hitler could not have been born that way. Something had to have happened to him. No one could be born that way. I still believe that.”
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A fascination with violence
Dorothy Lewis has spent her career trying to understand murderers. Her ideas, once considered outrageous, now influence Supreme Court decisions.medicine.yale.edu
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Name DOROTHY O LEWIS MD
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License Type License Number Expiration Date Granted Date License Name License Status Licensure Actions or Pending Charges Physician/Surgeon 12319 07/31/2020 09/21/1965 DOROTHY OTNOW LEWIS INACTIVE LAPSED DUE TO NON-RENEWAL None
So she is Jewish. Did she ever read the Commandment, Thou Shalt Not Kill?
I‘m unable to find current licensure for her in any state. What I posted was from the CT physician license lookup. It seems it’s the only license she had but I must be missing something cause I remember she spoke about California
When she figured out it came with special privileges.
I was thinking about this case and wondered when it all started. I know she just didn't decide to up and kill a child one day so was it physical abuse that escalated to murder? How is it that she has never done this before? Or has she? In a lot of cases of children being murdered by an abuser in the home, they are usually isolated so no one sees the bruises or broken bones. There is a cycle of abuse and it escalates. I don't really see that here so it makes me wonder how it started and when.
So Dr Lewis was a Hitler sympathsizer and LS was fake Jewish. Oh the irony.
I remember Mr Young questioning her about her knowledge ( lack of ) about Colorado law because she seemed to think that all States should have reciprocity.
All I can see is the juror that asked the question (who I’m sure expected a long winded explanation of some sort) jumping up with their hand raised saying “no wait, when, by what methods, what did you see that you don’t with liars.”
I've always found that weird. If Gannon was sick, she could have told her work that. "Hey, my stepson is sick and his dad is out of state, so I have to stay home and take care of him." Happens all the time - kids get sick and someone has to stay home.
She killed before claiming to be of the Jewish faith. So that doesn’t count, plus Maria confessed.
She testified in Maryland too:
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