Renah, youve given me some other thoughts about the ligature and false garotte. But, a little different direction here, I wanted to give some thought to a theory by BOESP regarding PR and corporal abuse. I cant remember where BOESP posted this, so Im posting here, since the RDI thread is safer to discuss indelicate theories.
One of the (and not the only) problems for the Rs was that the 5 physicians and forensic sexual abuse experts concluded not just acute abuse, but also chronic abuse. Acute abuse could be attributed to the paintbrush jab. But then what does one do about the chronic abuse theory? Deny, deny, deny. LW shut this line of questioning down with a tirade. But this abuse was, imo, at the heart of the cover up. So, if the paintbrush were utilized to cover past abuse of JB, then it would seem the person who used the paintbrush for the final violation of JB knew about abuse at a minimum the abuse of that evening. PR or JR? because I attribute the cover up to one or both of those two.
UKGuy brought up a point in another thread that if PR were douching JB, why not fess up that the whole scene was an accident, and that she (PR) had been trying to correct vaginal infections by douching. PR could even plead ignorance that she didnt know this was abusive. But PR doesnt do this. The cover up is the paintbrush jab, not an explanation about douching. But JB was cleaned up from the paintbrush jab, and imho, this indicates 2 different stagers.
A second thing which speaks against the corporal punishment, though I truly do not dismiss this corporal punishment as a possibility, is the fact that things were escalating in December 1996 and the teachers noted how much clingier JB was to PR. JB was relying on PR for protection.
Next one has the fecal incontinence which is a flag of abuse, because no little girl of 5 or 6 wants to have those kinds of accidents. But her body was rebelling, even if she couldnt rebel against her abuser. (And if her accidents were only because of the pageantry pressure, she would not have shown the physical signs of abuse.) Because she was described as the family spark plug, my guess would be she couldnt rebel against someone older and more of an authority figure (not just a few years older). JB had in previous times gotten into family tussles with her older brother, so she was not afraid of showing gumption towards him. Theres a short list for older who had access to JB PR, DP, JAR, JR. In my book, the abuse was most likely perpetrated by an older person, whom JB could not rebel against. I do not eliminate BR, just dont find him as likely. (But what do I know!)
Both JAR and his sister M denied that JR was anything but a wonderful gentile father. So did past wife. Beth was killed and what may or may not have happened to her is closed forever. However, Ill repeat what a grief counselor told me once. Everyone grieves in their own time frame. But when grief continues for an extended period of time, and it changes the person grieving, it is a sign of some deep, unfinished business with the person who died. JRs photos of Beth in his bathroom, his deep grief indicate something unsettled in him.
In showing some bias, the BPD tried to follow the sexual history of JR including past affairs, visitation of
shops, and interviews with past friends. Two friends, in separate interviews, made the statements that JR was devious and that JR was a ladies man but extremely discreet.
All this posted moo and without firm conclusions.
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