This brings up a question in my mind. Did the hospital just have to report the injury to CPS to be followed up, e.g., this is just protocal (someone said something like this before). Were they pushed to follow up?
Where did we hear that the doctor said Max suffocated? Would the doctor(s) use the term suffocated just to explain the blocked airways and was that just misconstrued?
I'm just wondering if, in fact, it's possible the whole 'suffocation' thing was never really even connected to the CPS report - am I making sense?
I believe Dina, in an interview, was the original official source of the "suffocation" comment, IIRC. I'm sorry, I don't have a link for that, but perhaps someone else does. (Was it the "Boy, Interrupted" article where we first heard her discuss this?) The suffocation comments were discussed at length by anonymous posters at various sites on the web, along with other "leaked" theories and comments, so somtimes it's difficult to track back to the first "official" mention. The "Rebecca starving the kids with healthy meals" was another leaked meme, as was the "Rebecca was a secret ninja jiujitsu master"-- which was leaked/ floated well in advance of the first official mention of this in Dr. Melinek's report. There can be no doubt, imo, that there is a concerted effort to put information like this out to the public in sound bites and oft-repeated chunks that sound like campaign slogans. I think we have even seen that in these threads.
Back to the CPS report. Here is a link to the California "Mandated Reporter Training" guide:
http://mandatedreporterca.com/
It's my opinion that the source of the request for social work to place a CPS request/ report has more to do with the
negligence aspect, than any suspicions of child abuse. Max suffered what was to be an ultimately fatal fall that was UNWITNESSED, from a residential staircase, that appeared to involve the use of a dangerous outside riding toy. The fall was so severe that it produced cardiac arrest at the scene. It is this confluence of circumstances that I believe triggered the request for report. I sincerely doubt any of his ER or ICU doctors thought Max was suffocated and thrown over the railing.
As we have seen in other threads (reference the scooter thread), fatal injuries related to toys are "reportable" to several agencies (CPSC, etc). I believe the negligence aspect was what was concerning, not any suspiscions of child abuse. The oft-repeated comment that Dr. Peterson did not feel that Max's injuries matched the story of how he fell fits that thought process for me.
I also keep coming back to Dina's comment at the Coronado City council that she was NOT to be notified about this report. I still think that is VERY curious. Perhaps she was not a target for investigation, but LE didn't want to precipitate an altercation or angst between Dina and Jonah (divorced parents, new girlfriend involved) while Max lay dying in ICU.
However, using only small snippets of repeated conversations allows anyone to manipulate those sound bites into whatever they want. What we need to see are Max's hospital records, which contain answers to many of the questions surrounding his death, as well as very pertinent information that could point to a likely motive for Rebecca's murder.
I'm rather hopeful that if (when!) the first civil suits are filed that the defendants will be reluctant to settle out of court, and bring the information to a civil trial. I believe that a lot of this information should see the light of day, to quell speculation, and get closer to the truth of what happened in both deaths.
It has been commented here and else where that XZ "will be forced to testify under oath" when civil suits are filed. She is not the only one that will be "forced to testify under oath". There are a great many people who can be subpoenaed to testify in civil proceedings filed either by RZ's surviving family, OR Dina and/ or Jonah Shacknai.
My bet is on Dina to file the first suits.
