BBM. You know this how? I think a dead child with multiple broken bones does indicate a household of domestic violence.
JMO
BBM. Who told her not to take the children there and why was she expected to obey that command? Her choices were her's to make but she isn't sitting in jail because she took her children to King's home. The child endangerment charges were dropped. I think she's still sitting in jail because she feels safer there.
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Punished for what? It's not a crime to take your children to somebody's filthy house. I don't blame Angela for the condition of King's home, I blame Mr. King and his mother. That said, if there was piles of trash or obstacles through the house, is very possible Elaina fell because of it. And I do believe Angela has been punished. She's lost her child and been in jail for six months.
Domestic violence also takes place in the cleanest of homes.
JMO
The broken bones of a child are certainly an indication of domestic violence: violence directed towards a child.
Child bone fracture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It seems possible that SK's home could have been the scene of domestic violence on the night of Elaina's death, and that the perpetrator/s of that violence were present in the home and had access to Elaina.
According to Lynn Stahell (Practice of Pediatric Orthopedics Second Edition. Philidelphia : Lippincott Williams and Wilkins: 2006, p. 272), the bone fractures resulting from abuse may lead to the death of a child. (Perhaps someone with medical accreditation could elaborate on this.)
Paraphrasing the entry: Symptoms of fractured bones in children include: pain, swelling, and deformity in the injured area. The child will not be able to move in a normal manner. It is vital that the child receive medical treatment immediately. In other words, it would be not be hard to tell if a child had been injured in such a way that one, or more, of their bones have been broken.
It should be noted that there are several different kinds of bone fractures.
http://www.melioguide.com/media/121650/turner_bone_strength.pdf, p. 434
Charles C. Turner includes an illustration in his article which shows the difference between simple, comminuted, butterfly and spiral fractures. According to Turner, a simple fracture happens from a low energy impact while high energy impacts cause fragmented fractures. In examining the fractures, medical professionals, especially forensic specialists, can determine the likely cause of the injury.
The coroner's report declared that Elaina Steinfurth's injuries were "severe" fractures "consistent with non-accidental trauma".
http://www.northwestohio.com/news/story.aspx?id=968111#.Uo3RpCjPbtU
So "severe" does not, IMO, refer to the kind of simple fractures which happen from low impact household accidents. Elaina Steinfurth was not injured by falling over a pile of papers, or slipping on dog or human waste. Elaina's body was deliberately broken. (Definitely abuse if the injuries happened before death, IMO. Five different broken bones sounds like torture to me. If, as was suggested up-thread, some of the bones were broken post-mortem in order to fit the Elaina's body into the computer box, that act could be considered defilement of a dead human body. Perhaps when the 19 page report is released to the public, it will clarify when the coroner and investigator believe the injuries were inflicted.)
The people who told AS not to take her children to SK's home were RS, MS, TJ, and "Frank". They all knew that the house was dangerous--the presence to toxic substances probably a concern to all of them. IIRC from previous threads, it has been established that Elaina was afraid of SK, which could be another reason TJ told AS that he did not want his daughters to go to that house. (FM and CC, please correct me if I've misstated this.) In other words, all these people were concerned, not about limiting the time AS could spend with her x, but about the safety of the two very young girls.
Late on Wednesday, June 12, 2013, AS was arrested.
http://www.13abc.com/story/22578415/mother-of-missing-toddler-arrested-on-child-endangering-charge
The arrest affidavit for AS states that on or about June 2nd of 2013, AS violated 2919 22 (A) constituting a charge of Endangering Children.
It further states that AS "did violate a duty of care, protection and support with respect to her minor child (NAME REDACTED) 18 months of age...(AS) did admit to law enforcement officers that she was aware that her minor child had sustained serious physical injury and that her minor child required medical treatment...(AS) further admitted that she failed to ensure that her minor child received the necessary medical treatment for said injury."
http://s823.photobucket.com/user/sa...r-00939-ElainaSteinfurth_zps7e36bde3.jpg.html
IIRC, this charge was later dropped and replaced with a charge of obstruction of justice in order that, should it later be found that Elaina had died, AS could then be prosecuted for a more serious offence with more serious consequences. A conviction on the lesser charge of Endangering a Child would have precluded the possibility of prosecution for a greater charge. (Please correct me if I've misstated the reasoning here.)
Whether or not AS inflicted some or all or none of the injuries to Elaina, she was responsible for getting medical aid for her daughter. Elaina, and sister KS, were in AS's care and custody. AS admitted to LE that she knew her daughter needed medical attention, and further admitted that she did not make sure her daughter received that attention. Although there were people to whom she could have turned for help, AS did not ask her daughters' father or her daughters' grandparents, or her own relatives for help. She is, IMO, by her own admission, at a minimum guilty of endangering both of her precious minor children. Given the potential for untreated injuries to lead to a child's death, IMO, AS bears a huge part of the responsibility for beautiful baby Elaina's death as well whether she inflicted those injuries herself or not.
Somehow six months just does not seem to me to be an appropriate punishment for AS's willful neglect of Elaina which, it could be argued, directly led to the baby's death.
Perhaps as the week progresses LE will release more information regarding further charges which may arise now that the investigator's report has been completed.
We are another day closer to finding Justice for Elaina.