RedChief said:Whoa, BC, the evidence doesn't suggest that JonBenet was raped in the ordinary sense. It suggests that she was poked in the vagina with a stick. If you want to call that rape, that's your prerogative; depends on how you define the word. Unless Burke is a beaver, his prepubescent penis wouldn't scratch the hymen.
Whoa, BC, JonBenet's hymen wasn't gone except for a rim of tissue between the 10 and 2 o'clock positions. You got that from Schiller. He got that wrong in his book. In the autopsy report it says the hymen was a rim of tissue from the 2 o'clock to the 10 o'clock position (clockwise), not from 10 to 2. What you are describing is 4/12ths (33.33 %) of a complete circle; what Meyer (he performed the autopsy, not Schiller) described was 8/12ths (66.66 %) of a complete circle; a normal hymen configuration, as I and others have already pointed out to you on numerous occasions. Schiller incorrectly described the hymen when he said, in PMPT, "What remained of the hymen was a rim of tissue between the 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock positions." It was in this incorrect characterization and description that folks got the impression that part of the hymen was missing; it wasn't.
Whoa, BC, your conclusion about the acute and chronic injuries is incorrect. Both the injury to the hymen (the abrasion) and the injury to the vaginal wall directly behind it (the abrasion) were acute (neither was chronic). It is true that both these acute injuries suggest that the same person made them at the same time; probably with the paintbrush handle. Make of that what you will.
An added comment about something that BC didn't mention this time. Many have gotten the impression that a piece of hymen was missing and had gone missing either that night or sometime prior to that night. Many folks have gotten the impression that the hymen was torn that night. The coroner said it was abraded; he didn't say it was torn. If you want to replace the term, "abrasion", with the term, "tear", feel free to do so, even though that would be incorrect. Then you'd have that the hymen had been torn by the paintbrush handle (or whatever was used to inflict the injury--not a penis). Still not rape in the ordinary sense; more on the order of a sadistic gesture.
Thomas, himself, didn't suspect rape nor did he suspect chronic sexual abuse in the molestation sense. He suspected physical abuse; probably of the nature of corporal punishment for bed wetting.
Let's get our facts straight. Old myths die hard.
RedChief,
The hymen was GONE, as in disappeared, as in see ya. From the autopsy report:
"The hymen itself is represented by a rim of mucosal tissue extending clockwise between the 2 and 10:00 positions."
The hymen was REPRESENTED by a rim of mucosal tissue. It can't be there and be represented at the same time. JonBenet's hymen was gone.
In regard to the Chronic injuries:
"All of the sections contain vascular congestion and focal interstitial chronic inflamation."