Yes, the request for a medical note hit a nerve. Her reaction is a sign that this particular absence was something she wanted to bury in a counter allegation,
Two weeks (including weekends) is a long time to be suffering an upper respiratory tract infection which is so bad still in the second week that it prevents a child from going to school, without being seen by a doctor. Possible of course, but Ellie returning to school with facial injuries could be a sign that they were pressured to send her back before they had fully healed, by the school's persistence / and rightful concerns. They had been caught out by the visibility of the injuries and with the broken shoulder happening at that time according to the evidence of experts, Ellie would not have been able to go to school until the pain was manageable for her.
It is interesting that the parents didn't mention the fall into the stairs over the puppy to the GP as the reason for certification/absence. Probably because it was the second such fall into the stairs in 3 months which would have been in the GP's records, resulting in bruising around the eye and to the bridge of nose and forehead.
How would Ellie break her shoulder blade at the rear and bump her face forward into the step at the same time?
They didn't count on that shoulder break being discovered.
I see JG's seemingly unjustified reaction to being asked for medical note, and anger to the school, being a sure sign of her complicity in the cruelty.
I would also be interested to know what days she missed from work at that time. According to her phone call to the school in the first week, the whole family had flu. Was she at work? I know she had one or two days off which she told her colleagues was because BB was away and she needed to look after children. Another lie. Why, if she had nothing to hide and BB was at home to care for the children?
I think this is one very very deceitful person, very practiced at lying for BB. She told the police BB was talking to her in the taxi about cooking chilli for dinner and that she thought of going home because there were not many staff around and she wouldn't be missed, and that BB was kind and loving and not abusive. As she knew Ellie had received life threatening head injuries, she had no reason to lie and cover for BB whatsoever, unless she knew she had been covering up abuse. I think this cover up must extend to lying before they got the children back, otherwise if it was new behaviour, she had no reason to stay with him and cover up for him, and she had every reason to admit she was wrong about him and take the children away from him.
I wouldn't go so far as to say I think she physically hurt the children, but her culpability is as high as his for allowing it to happen after even one episode of violence inflicted on any of them. If she thought he was innocent of the injury to Ellie at 6 weeks, she now had reason to question her judgement.
