SisterSocks
What a wild and crazy trip its been
I sure hope she will get JFJB OR turn it over to someone else...
Ivy, you took the words right out of my mouth. "Frankincense" starts with an "F"Originally posted by Ivy
I don't think I've ever heard the word "incense" being used in the Christmas story, but maybe you didn't mean the biblical Christmas story. If you did, do you think a child would substitute the word incense for gold, frankincense and myrrh? I don't.
Originally posted by Britt
The "toilet rage" theory did not come from Steve Thomas. It came from Dr. Richard Krugman, Dean of the CU Health Sciences Center and a nationally known child abuse expert, who consulted with the police and the DA on this case.
From the FFJ/Spade notes above:
Dr. Richard Krugman, Dean of the University of Colorado Medical School, an expert first contacted for assistance in the Ramsey case by the D.A.s office, was the most adamant supporter of the finding of chronic sexual abuse. He felt that in considering the past and present injuries to the hymen that the bedwetting/soiling took on enormous significance. He believed that this homicide was an indecent [incident ?] of toilet rage and subsequent cover up. He told the group of experts and detectives about another Colorado case where both parents had been at home and both were charged. The JonBenet case is a text book example of toileting abuse rage," Krugman stated.
Hum COULD BE YOUR (RIGHT?) ON TO SOMETHING/..you could be right... let your conscsious be your guide...?
And from PMPT:
Krugman had occasionally seen injuries to little girls' genitals that were related to toilet training and had nothing to do with sexual abuse. In children, one had to separate sexual from physical abuse. By now the detectives had learned that at age six, JonBenét was still wetting the bed, and was asking adults to wipe her after she was done on the toilet. It was possible that the injury to her vagina was a result of punishment. p. 467 paperback
And on Burden of Proof (I posted the link previously), Krugman suggested the 'sexual' abuse might have been a cover-up for prior physical abuse in the vaginal area:
COSSACK: Doctor you made a statement which almost made it sound though that you believe that the sexual abuse was a coverup to perhaps hide the amount of physical abuse. Do you have a feel on that area?
KRUGMAN: In my view that's certainly a possibility.
Dr. Krugman (and Thomas's book) could be right... or partially right. Perhaps JonBenét was being abused by both parents in different ways.
I wonder if the question of "toileting abuse rage" relates to the dictionary being marked to the word "incest." Perhaps Patsy wanted to know if physical vaginal abuse counted as incest.