Holdontoyourhat
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Try again, HOTYH.
Do I have to jump off a moving motorcycle to explain tissue erosion to you?
Try again, HOTYH.
A LOT of third-party opinions. One or two can be dismissed. Eight or nine, you have to wonder.
Who says? You?
Why would Meyer chat with LA, expressing his so-called 'opinions of chronic abuse' on one hand, and write down ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT IT ON THE FINAL DIAGNOSIS??? Is this where we get paranoid and cite fear of the rich on his part?
Oh sure! Like NOBODY ever made an off-the-record statement before!
Try again, HOTYH. Let's take a look at the autopsy report itself:
A 1 cm red-purple area of abrasion is located on the right posterolateral area of the 1x1 cm hymeneal orifice. The hymen itself is represented by a rim of tissue extending clockwise from between the 2:00 and 10:00 positions. The area of abrasion is present at approximately the 7:00 position and appears to involve the hymen and the distal right vaginal wall."
The "1x1 cm hymeneal orifice" is the bell-ringer here. That means that the opening in JonBenet's six-year-old hymen was one centimeter by one centimeter. This is twice the size of a so-called normal hymeneal opening for a girl this age. In a September 1999 study for the Medical Journal Family Medicine titled "Genital Findings in Prepubertal Girls Evaluated for Sexual Abuse: A Different Perspective on Hymeneal Measurements," Dr. Perry Pugno said:
"Girls with no definitive signs of genital trauma exhibited a mean transhymenal diameter of 2.3 mm and in general showed an increase of approximately 1 mm per year of age. Girls with definitive signs of genital trauma exhibited a mean transhymenal diameter of 9.0 mm and no significant variance with age. Correcting for age differences, the transhymenal diameter was highly significant as a differentiating factor (F=1079, P<.001). When compared against the criterion standard, the transhymenal measurement is 99% specific and 79% sensitive as a screening tool."
Again, from the report:
"Vaginal Mucosa: All of the sections contain vascular congestion and focal interstitial chronic inflammation. The smallest piece of tissue, from the 7:00 position of the wall/hymen, contains epithelial erosion with underlying capillary congestion. A small number of red blood cells is present on the eroded surface. Acute inflammatory infiltrate is not seen."
Inflammation refers to an irritation that may involve pain, redness, heat (thus the term) and swelling. Here, take your fingernails and scratch your arm. Did you see how the skin became red? That's because the blood has come to the surface to heal the injury. This is known as acute inflammation. That means that JonBenet's vagina was injured or irritated and her body's systems went to work to try and heal her. It's the chronic part that seals the deal. The Bantam Medical Dictionary defines "chronic" as a disease or injury of long duration, and states that when healing does not occur, inflammation becomes chronic. In plain English, that means that JonBenet had old inflammation that had not been allowed to heal. This did not happen all at once. Even more damning is the term "erosion." No point in trying to obfuscate the issue: that means that layers of flesh in JonBenet's vagina had been worn away over time; stripped away by continuous invasion. Old and new vaginal injuries. It couldn't be any plainer than that.
And as if that weren't enough, one of the experts consulted was Dr. John McCann from the Univsersity of California at Davis. McCann is considered by many to be the world's leading authority on child sexual abuse. In fact, he was instrumental in establishing the proper methods and findings for determining child sexual abuse. His findings have been crucial in preventing misdiagnosis of child sexual abuse, such as happened in the McMartin trial. McCann was contacted in mid-1997 to give a report for the police department. His findings were written down in the police reports and later transcribed by Bonita Sauer, a Denver legal secretary:
"According to McCann, examination findings that indicate chronic sexual abuse include the thickness of the rim of the hymen, irregularity of the edge of the hymen, the width or narrowness of the wall of the hymen, and exposure of structures of the vagina normally covered by the hymen. His report stated that there was evidence of prior hymeneal trauma as all of these criteria were seen in the post mortem examination of JonBenet.
"There was a three dimensional thickening from inside to outside on the inferior hymeneal rim with a bruise apparent on the external surface of the hymen and a narrowing of the hymeneal rim from the edge of the hymen to where it attaches to the muscular portion of the vaginal openings. At the narrowing area, there appeared to be very little if any hymen present. There was also exposure of the vaginal rugae, a structure of the vagina which is normally covered by an intact hymen. The hymeneal orifice measured one centimeter which is abnormal or unusual for this particular age group and is further evidence of prior sexual abuse with a more recent injury as shown by the bruised area on the inferior hymeneal rim."
So no, it's not me.
Do I have to jump off a moving motorcycle to explain tissue erosion to you?
Ask BPD why they were all dismissed.
Its also crass if IDI turns out to be true.
Don't let me stop you!
No need.
Nice try, but it would've been part of the final diagnosis if it was part of the conversation.
Meyer: "Oh BTW and off the record, my opinion is that JBR was previously chronically abused. Is it OK for me to leave that out of my report?"
Thats absurd.
Your assertion is absurd. The autopsy report can only report what the injuries were, NOT what caused them. Any amateur knows that.
I take it you now understand tissue erosion
that you in your own post quoted the coroner as 'abrasion', and how this isn't 'over time' as if it took days, weeks, months, or years? That an abrasion can happen in an instant?
Why was your army of doctors standing ready to declare JBR previously parentally abused, dismissed by the investigative authority?
Or was McCann invited to Boulder to discuss his findings in more detail?
You'd better re-read the autopsy: death by asphyxiation. You know, 'cause' of death
Look at it from my 'amateur' POV. How can I tell if erosion was over time or in an instant? From you telling me? C'mon, you need some more data. Just telling me things are this way or that doesn't wash.
Clever, HOTYH. But not clever enough. I noticed that little sleight-of-word. "Abrasion" does not equal "erosion." Yes, an ABRASION can happen in an instant. I don't know of anyone who argued that.
Yes, an ABRASION can happen in an instant. I don't know of anyone who argued that.
Why did they pick JBR then, if not for publicity. Certainly not because JBR represented a classic example of anything. I mean, we don't even know what happened. There's no proof she was previously injured. Erosion could happen in one minute, there's nothing to show as fact what you've been claiming except third party opinions.
Heck there's absolute zero evidence she was previously abused by a parent, and they write a paper anyway?
Nice try, but it would've been part of the final diagnosis if it was part of the conversation.
Meyer: "Oh BTW and off the record, my opinion is that JBR was previously chronically abused. Is it OK for me to leave that out of my report?"
Thats absurd.
Clever? Sleight of word? I'm reasonably sure you're not a doctor, and you probably don't know if abrasion equals or does not equal epethelial erosion.
It probably does equal. According to your own post, the coroner referred to the exact same area (7 o'clock) once as epithelial erosion and once again as abrasion.
In fact, the terms 'epithelial erosion' and 'abrasion' were used by the coroner to describe the same injury, an acute injury.
I take it you now understand tissue erosion, that you in your own post quoted the coroner as 'abrasion', and how this isn't 'over time' as if it took days, weeks, months, or years? That an abrasion can and does happen in an instant?
Actually HOTYH, that's exactly what the autopsy report said only the report used medical terminology instead of casual language such as above.