UKGuy,
I know all to well about sharing drinks and the difference in drinking from a straw per say as drinking from a glass. Slobber is much more likely to occur via a straw then a glass. Yet ... it can still be there.
Somebody sticking their fingers in milk and cream.
I don’t think it far fetched for a person with scatolia issues to have a problem with that.
Some causes of smearing may include:
- Medical issues (constipation, GI issues)
- Psychiatric issues (OCD, exposure anxiety, mental health issues)
- Sensory factors (interoception problems – not knowing you have to go, enjoyment of smell and texture)
- Difficulties around teaching toilet training skills
- Dietary factors (limited diet may lead to constipation)
- Emotional factors (response to anxiety, the reward of a hot bath, sense of autonomy, understimulation/boredom, an expression of anger)
- Sexual factors (gratification, a sign of abuse)
IMO, JB was chocked manually, then whacked on the head, then strangled with the ligature. I understand the blood pooling under the skin (as seen on left hand side below JB) neck can be a Vagus nerve reaction but I have always seen it as somebody grabbing JB by the shirt collar and twisting it; thereby leaving the knuckle imprint.
The Disney reference I guess we will also use in the instance where BR is telling Dr. Bernhardt what happened to JB less then 2 weeks from her death. He states he was just guessing about this on Dr. Phil. Less then two weeks later and he knows what happened. He also knows enough to discuss w/DS the ligature 2 days after the murder. Doesn’t sound to much like Disney to me.
I suppose you could be on the fence about why the crime was handled like it was. Perhaps they parents decided to lose one child instead of two.