Going back to the title of this thread, I would like to submit for discussion something that has always weighed heavily on my mind concerning the matter of JonBenet and the issue of abuse - a paper written by Dr. Richard Krugman and Dr. Andrew Sirotnak titled "JonBenet's legacy: Protect our children
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Dr. Andrew Sirotnak was present at JonBenet's autopsy, and according to this paper, believes JonBenet died as a result of child abuse - most likely at the hands of someone she knew, someone who cared for her.
http://www.cyc-net.org/today2001/today011224.html
JonBenet's legacy: Protect our children
Our community has been reminded of her death in many ways over the past years: the lawsuits, the investigations, the supermarket tabloids. We have continued to focus on identifying JonBenet's killer, yet the real dilemma remains. Despite her high-profile death, over the past five years another 6,000 children have died nationally from fatal child abuse, nearly 200 in Colorado, most of them without attendant media attention.
So what have we really learned over the past five years from the death of this young child?
Clearly, her death has increased our awareness of child homicides. Just as the death of Matthew Eappen at the hands of his English nanny raised the awareness of Shaken Baby Syndrome, so JonBenet Ramsey's death increased the periodic attention paid to fatal child abuse to new heights.
But what has this awareness ultimately done to prevent other children from dying?
For the first time, some of us began to question our belief system about child abuse. With the death of JonBenet Ramsey, America was forced to think about child abuse in a new way. We saw the death of a child in an affluent neighborhood, with wealthy and powerful parents, reinforcing what Dr. C. Henry Kempe of the Kempe Children's Center taught us decades ago: No family, rich or poor, is immune from this problem.
We were also forced to consider whether our own children were safe from intruders who might kidnap and kill them. Although there are a small number of such kidnappings in the United States every year, the vast majority of fatal abuse is perpetrated by someone known to the child, usually a caregiver, and it is rarely intentional or premeditated."
*Rest of article at link*
The drs. allow for the possibility of an intruder, but site it as a secondary possibility behind the probability of death by child abuse...at the hands of someone known to the child, usually a caregiver, and rarely intentional or premeditated.
Which is exactly, IMO, what happened to JonBenet. She was being abused. There is no question of that, the autopsy itself proves that. She was killed as a result of the abuse she had to endure. But who?
Who had that kind of access to JonBenet, not just one night, but enough times prior to the night she was killed that her hymen was eroded, as seen at autopsy? Is the ongoing abuse the reason she had regressed in toileting skills? Is it also the reason she felt the need to visit the school nurse three consecutive Mondays in December, leading up to the week she was killed?
And is that why those school records have never been available in any format, at any source? Is that the same reason why her medical records from the dubious Dr., Beuf are also completely unavailable in any format, at any source?
What are they hiding?