DCF Head-Basher Case, Update (Expert: "Yes, it could have happened from a fall")
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Subject: DCF Head-Basher Case, Update (Expert: "Yes, it could have
happened from a fall")
http://www.actionlyme.org/andersonpenisbiter.htm
Date: Mar 11, 2010 11:47 AM
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It could have been from vaccines, too. I am glad duh DCF ho was
allowed to hire an expert. The Gebhardts were not. And this is a
lesson to all parents falsely accused of shaken baby. Hire a real
expert and cite this particular case:
http://www.actionlyme.org
We care to see justice being served,
not whether or not the ho was actually
guilty because this case sets a precedent.
ALL PEOPLE FALSELY ACCUSED BY DCF should
be allowed to know the evidence against them,
about the means to collect this evidence, and
most of all that the damned RETARDED JUDGES
actually *look* at the evidence they're
required to.
Corrupticut is such a freakin abomination.
No wonder Blumenthal wants to leave.
Be sure to drive around us if you
have to come up to New England. You
never know what will happen to you
even if you have the misfortune of
having car trouble:
http://www.actionlyme.org/dictionary_of_connecticutisms.htm
KMDickson
Kids with SCIENTIFICALLY VERIFIABLE Congenital Lyme:
http://www.actionlyme.org/Schoen.htm
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http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-listro-0311.artmar11,0,6392892.story
Defense Expert Says 26-Inch Fall Could Have Killed 7-Month-Old Child
VERNON — - A biomechanical engineer who has studied the mechanics of
brain injuries in children testified Wednesday that Michael Brown Jr.
could have been fatally injured by falling 26 inches from a bed to a
linoleum floor in Suzanne Listro's home in May 2008.
Listro, 44, a former state Department of Children and Families worker
who was also a foster parent to children in DCF custody, is on trial
at Superior Court in Rockville on charges of manslaughter and risk of
injury to a minor.
The state contends that Michael's injuries were consistent with having
been shaken.
The defense contends that the 7-month-old's death was an accident.
Kirk L. Thibault, president of Biomechanics Inc. in Philadelphia,
testified that the severe intracranial bleeding and hemorrhaging of
the optic nerve and retinas that Michael suffered could have resulted
from the fall. Listro told police that the boy fell off the bed when
she looked away for a moment. He was found lying on his back, and
quickly lost consciousness.
Dr. H. Wayne Carver, the state's chief medical examiner, testified
Monday that the injuries were consistent with Michael's being shaken
and that the damage to the boy's brain was more than would be expected
from a 26-inch fall.
Thibault, who is paid $375 an hour to offer expert testimony at
trials, said under questioning by defense attorney Hope Seeley that
hemorrhaging to the boy's retinas and optic nerves — often cited as
evidence of shaking — could have resulted from increased pressure in
the boy's brain from the severe intracranial bleeding.
With the fall, "there's a potential for that injury to occur ... so
you have to consider that a plausible explanation," Thibault told
Judge William H. Bright Jr.
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Elizabeth C. Leaming, Thibault
acknowledged that falls from such heights are rarely fatal.
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