I've gone through 3 minutes of the jail interview with a pencil and paper.
The thing that stands out right now is EG asking the two people outside if they 'need' to come in. Not if they 'would like' to come inside out of the cold, but if they 'need' to come in.
I think it sounds like someone who's suspicious and paranoid about why these people are standing outside "my house". I think it's not so much being kind (because people who are just being kind rarely need to point that out) but more of a passive aggressive "do you need to come inside?" [to look inside my home or something???]
We've been given a possible date of the 11th for that incident. "Pretty early in the morning" according to EG.
JH has gone back to work 2 days earlier. If it was that day she'd be waiting to see if her ex turns up with the boys for their Sunday visit.
The ex does come over with the two older boys as that's the day she's seen outside smoking with a man (I am thinking that might be the ex?) and she takes the three boys to play with the neighbor's kids. Lucas is described by the neighbor as having a bruise on his face and standing quietly alone, separate from the other playing kids. This behavior of Lucas is described by his relative FLA as being very out of character for Lucas.
Very interesting stats on the head trauma. I notice that those cases were all of children 18 months or younger, and they were all cases where the parents/caregivers took the children to hospital multiple times during the duration of their downturn due to the head injuries (and possibly other abuse given that one child had bruising to the chest in addition to bruises on the face).
Do most of the parents in that situation even associate the symptoms with the abuse? I suppose in some of those cases it's not so much the abuser driving the decision to take the child to hospital but maybe a parent who wasn't in the home when the abuse took place?
So we have a situation where EG seems to have got very complacent about bruises on Lucas being seen by others, family, teachers, medical staff. Yet this week in particular she may have a heightened sense of paranoia regarding a perceived threat to her of having visits with her boys stopped and further investigations made. And the Feb 4th incident seems to be about JH...there's a note on the CINC form that a lot of Lucas' injuries seem to occur after a fight between EG and JH. JH has just gone back to work on the 9th, so he's no longer there all day looking over her shoulder for how she's treating Lucas. This is really a perfect storm time for a potential punishment beating (not a split-second anger beating but a punishment beating that says "I hate JH for the situation he's left me in!")
It's very concerning that those few abuse-related head trauma babies were being taken back to the hospital about 6 days later, and then about ten days for coma to set in. Prior to the coma it suggests an older child would maybe still be walking around? Vomiting, sleepy, maybe some confusion, but still responsive. I can't draw medical conclusions from this small sub-set of much younger babies, and I am not a medical professional.
EG allegedly does have a historical incident of throwing a bottle of water at Lucas's face. Possible similar incident with a maybe heavier item and hitting in a different position causing head trauma? Those babies were more likely subjected to far more severe trauma, with at least one of them likely including shaking of the baby (note the retinal damage) and a baby is more likely to be thrown at an object (a wall or floor) rather than having an object thrown at the baby...Lucas is more likely, in a hypothetical scenario, to have had something thrown at him (a la the bottle of water) rather than being thrown against a wall.
If there was head trauma, Lucas could have been asleep when EG went out to OG as sleepiness could be a side-effect of head trauma, as could vomiting and diarrhea --the pull-up.
