Finally got caught up on this thread. So glad to see that so many members are still posting and that the thread is still moving along at a good pace! I had been closely following a few other cases plus didn't feel I had anything of much worth to add since I know very little about broken bones etc. (I actually had always assumed a break and a fracture were not one in the same prior to this thread! :shame:
Like some of you have expressed, I am sure the defense will have their own experts to explain all those breaks :thinking: and that did worry me a little. Nothing is worse than someone doing something terribly wrong, but having a good defense attorney with good resources and a "scientific reason" to cause some doubt.....
but even if you take all of that away, the knowledge of those NUMEROUS and significant breaks, you still end up with two educated adult parents
with 5 cell phones
and 3 working vehicles
who had an adopted child die on their watch,
never called 911 for an ambulance,
or ran to a close neighbors house
or drove to a hospital.
Instead, they threw her away in a culvert, then hours later called the non-emergency number and said they had a missing child.
Just that information alone should be enough, no matter how any defense tries to spin it. They lack the ability to provide critical care when it's a life or death situation. They also happen to leave toddlers unattended while they dine out.
They are also both in jail. You can spin a story and throw in science and experts to explain those breaks, but you cannot explain the rest.
This is one case where I'm not too worried about undeserving parents getting a child back.
All JMO opinion of course.
