Kat
Originally Posted by Mrs G Norris
'I couldn't find one (doesn't mean there isn't one), since there was no new info on JVM let's discuss....'
I was just wondering how long Caylee would have had to been put in those positions (like was it one month?, several or more?) in order for her suture to begin closing like that.
This really makes me so sad. Lordy.
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From what he says, several months or longer...
Dr. Green responded with the following opinion:
There is evidence that she was forced over some period of time, at least several months or longer, to often be forced to lie on her back, maybe with her head restrained, maybe under sedation, maybe because she was terrorized, and maybe because she was so tired she often fell asleep in an awkward, un-natural, and forced position. This would have been, due to her age and the fact the fusion of the synostosis were not yet mature, to cause chronic osteotic changes, primarily due to replicating osteoblasts (bone-cells that are growing at that age) so as to have caused this non-natural finding…but which finding in and of itself is not pathological [i.e. not related to disease].
Now I am assuming it would have to be for hours at a time to have permanent damage to the skull, I think what he is getting at here is that even if she slept on her back the position itself would have been unnatural, so she would have had to be restrained into it otherwise she would have shifted to a more comfortable one, so more than just being drugged and sleeping for extended periods of time.
I'm thinking car seat.