maedlamsmom
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Again, this is just a theory... I was NOT saying that he had "to make it look like an accident bc his mother was there". What I meant to convey was that, I think it is possible that Ayla's arm was injured before the "fall", by her father, perhaps in anger. We don't know the specifics of Ayla's injury, bc to my knowledge, her medical records have not been released. What we do know is that the injury was severe enough to require additional appointments with a bone specialist. Also, iirc, the doctors at the hospital initially were suspicious of the injury, but later came to believe that it was an accident. We don't know what swayed them. Perhaps it was PD's account of the "accident".
To be clear, what I meant was this: JD broke Ayla's arm in an act of child abuse, prior to returning to the home from grocery shopping. Perhaps in the car? He realized by Ayla's reaction that something was wrong with the arm and that there would be questions from his family. He decided that the best way to take suspicion off of him would be to have an "accident" in front of witnesses that could account for the injury to Ayla's arm. He chose to "fall up" the stairs, knowing his mother was home and would hear the resulting crash. Because it is difficult to purposefully fall, without actually injuring yourself, the crash wasn't sufficient to cause that type of injury to a toddler's arm. Thus, PD being reluctant to take her to the ER.
As to the bbb, I don't think those are the only type of injuries that result from abuse. First, a common injury presented after abuse in children is a spiral fracture, caused by twisting of the arm, behind the child. And broken bones in children under five is a common injury when the abuser is the biological father. Basically, a bone will break when theres more force applied to the bone than it can absorb. A grown man could break a toddler's arm easily, without having to slam her into something...
