Kenda is correct though. If something related to a murder looks like a coincidence, it probably isn't.
Speaking of bruises what about these pictures?
I get tired of IDIs drolly lecturing me about how little girls get bruises and how Nedra said it was a hamster cage. Please. None of us lived there so we don't know what she was being subjected to. What we DO know is that BR had a host of behavior troubles.
By the way here's a picture of her legs in case someone asks
Hi ambitioned, my apologies for the late reply- it's been a hectic week, and just trying to catch up now! Thanks so much for posting these pictures- they were exactly the ones I was talking about.
I take them as clear indication that JB was being abused in some way, for some time before her death. Poor little thing! So sad- but she was obviously a brave little girl, to keep smiling in spite of whatever private pain she was enduring. I'm no expert, but I've read and heard that many abused children are determined to try to put a brave face on things and keep smiling in public, when they can.
To me, it shows that BR was likely abusing her before she was killed that night, unless she was being abused by others as well, such as PR and/or JR. I find that unlikely, but I do think that surely they must have known about BR's actions, and what JB was suffering? All I can say is, if we can see so clearly from those photos, I can't believe her parents didn't notice those marks, and I would think any parent would find them extremely concerning?
Maybe they did try to take certain steps to help the situation before her death, but they obviously didn't go far enough. Unless they were both in denial. I suppose it's easy to judge, when I'm not in their situation, but if I was JB's mother and saw those marks on her, I wouldn't have allowed both kids to still be sleeping in next door bedrooms unsupervised at night, while I was on a completely separate floor- especially if I knew both kids often went into each other's rooms at night. I wonder if JR and PR were given any warnings beforehand, by either BR or JB's therapists, that things could get so dangerous?
I can't tell if those marks on her legs are the same as those thought to have been caused by sticking train track pins into her, but if they are, it shows that BR did not only do that as a one-off on the night of the killing, to see if she would wake up. To me, it seems spiteful and sadistic, and meant to deliberately cause pain. I know children don't think like adults about the consequences of their actions, but to me this is still on a different level from "typical" hitting and shoving that might occur between siblings. I also think the position of the deep bruise on her inner elbow is odd, in terms of thinking how it might have happened.
Sorry I can't think of much more to add, but just wanted to thank ambition for the pictures. The butt print jokes were so funny, by the way!
