"I gather there was no urine on the basement floor or her nightclothes?"
I'll check.
"I am wondering if she was diagnosed with that specific vaginitis, which would then confirm, not point to, but confirm sexual molestation."
We don't know.
"ETA: I am not necesarily disputing sexual molestation, just trying to look at the parts of the picture, which then lead to the whole. thanks."
You're asking the right people!
"BUT, that doesn't mean that memory loss doesn't happen when a major traumatic event happens in your life. That's basic psychology. Your mind is a very powerful thing, capable of so much more than we even know today. If something is too painful, you're mind will "erase" it, so to speak. Memory loss in PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) is widely known and documented by those in the field."
I'm familiar with it, julianne. Dad was a Marine in Vietnam. He was lucky enough not to come back with "shell-shock," but he knew a few guys who did.
"But when I see 'facts' tossed about, like the size of JBR's vaginal opening, I have to wonder what the real authority for that 'fact' is."
Well, that specific fact comes from the autopsy report/
"I have to allow the grand jury to provide my guidance on this case, as they saw, and heard, the evidence, which I haven't been privy to, and no indictment was forthcoming, and as they say, a ham sandwich can be indicted."
To wit:
But what distorted picture did the grand jurors get, considering that the main suspects, Patsy and John, did not even testify?
And none of the detectives who had worked the case for fifteen months and knew it down to the last detail, like Steve Thomas, were chosen either. Instead Lou Smit and Trip DeMuth, two firm believers in the intruder theory were allowed to serve the grand jury. And Smit and DeMuth were also among those helping to pick the panel. Enough said. More crucial info about the "not so grand jury" can be found in Steve Thomas' book.
Not only that, Buzz, but the Grand Jurors actually said that it wasn't the evidence they were going by, but rather their belief that a parent couldn't murder a child.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's an actual quote:
"The pictures were so horrible that the jurors felt it was absolutely inconceivable that any mother on Earth could have been capable of doing such a thing to their own child."
You'll have to EXCUSE me if I find that extremely naive and unprofessional. What planet were these people from? Parents kill their children every single day in this country, and in much more horrific ways than JB was killed. But, I guess that's what they have to believe in order to live their happy little lives.
But FBI agent Ron Walker had this to say:
"Well, as much as it pains me to say it, yes, I've seen parents who have decapitated their children, I've seen cases where parents have drowned their children in bathtubs, I've seen cases where parents have strangled their children, have placed them in paper bags and smothered them, have strapped them in car seats and driven them into a body of water, any way that you can think of that a person can kill another person, almost all those ways are also ways that parents can kill their children."
Just what IS it about that statement that people don't GET? That's what I wanna know!
"Those of you that support the 'chronic' sexual abuse theory, how do you define or imagine 'chronic?' Do you say that to mean over weeks,months or years? or chronic as in just separate from the acute injuries at death?"
BOTH!
Firstly: "Do you say that to mean over weeks,months or years?"
Answer (courtesy of Dr. John McCann):
Dr. McCann explained the term "chronic abuse" meant only that it was "repeated", but that the number of incidents could not be determined. In the case of JonBenet, the doctor could only say that there was evidence of prior abuse". The examination results were evidence that there was at least one prior penetration of the vagina through the hymeneal membrane. The change in the hymeneal structure is due to healing from a prior penetration. However, it was not possible to determine the number of incidents nor over what period of time. Because the prior injury had healed, any other incidents of abuse probably were more than 10 days prior.
Secondly: "or chronic as in just separate from the acute injuries at death?"
Answer (courtesy of my lady Wendy Murphy):
"Remember, this child had chronic and acute vaginal injuries. Translation: old and new vaginal injuries. Whoever did this had ongoing sexual contact with this child."
Does that answer your query?
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