shiloh said:
Really?
The sexual abuse of JonBenet is a FACT. The existence of fibers from JR's shirt in JBR's underwear is apparently also a fact, according to forensic evidence obtained by Bruce Levin. Blood in her vagina and on her perineum was not caused by bubble baths. There's plenty of reason for denial.
Ah, but according to Nedra, she was only abused a "little bit."
There's a lot of denial going on in that family. My guess is there's a lot of deep, dark secrets.
There could be two different things going on...
JonBenet could have been being sexually abused, and Patsy knew this.
JonBenet was killed accidentally when she had a bedwetting accident.
So...
Then when the cover up began, she had to cover up the prior sexual abuse to point the finger away from the family (or whoever did this). So she used the broken end of the paintbrush. But the problem with this is, this would do nothing to hide the old abuse, which I think she was worried they would find (and they did).
It's like when a kid shows up at the ER and old broken bones show up on the X-ray, in addition to the current injury. Many times the kids who are abused are not taken to the hospital until they are near death. I would imagine the parent's are afraid these old injuries will show up...so they wait until they absolutely have to go...and many times rather than take their kid for help, they let them die. You see this a lot.
That may have been what was going on in Patsy's mind. She may have know that JonBenet had been sexually abused before and how on earth would they explain that? So the elaborate cover-up began.
I've always wondered why Patsy's dad flew out of town on standby the day before Xmas. Am I correct in this? It's been such a long time ago, my memory is fading a bit.
So this is why I think there was all the staging. Patsy was trying to hide the abuse. So she made it look like a intruder/kidnapping/rape thing to deflect away from the family. But the big problem is that the prior abuse would still be found in the autopsy.
And then you add in their money and connections, and the fact that they lawyer-up early, and had the good luck to have Ardnt on the scene, and there you go....
This of course is just speculation....