John
Laverty, Jr. was released from prison on October 14th, 2015 after
nearly 15 years behind bars for a crime he never committed. Actually,
that no one committed, other than a pediatrician he demanded answers
from and suspected of medical malpractice. A doctor who responded
by altering and falsifying a clinical report and phoning in a revenge-fueled
report of child abuse even after finding serious medical issues like
fluid in the lungs from a respiratory infection, who also minimized
earlier medical symptoms. Also by the following; two other doctors
who submitted false reports. By the doctors who may have suspected
these actions. By all of the medical "experts" who failed
to or refused to do medical tests to find or eliminate other causes,
and who may have given false testimony under oath. Also by 3 out of
4 investigators who withheld or falsified police reports to insure
conviction. By prosecutors who may have withheld evidence and other
offenses to "win" a case rather than pursue the truth. By
defense attorneys who didn't bother to study the case or even read
the available documents with all of the contradictions, errors, and
false information. By a court clerk who inadvertently derailed a trial,
forcing unwanted plea bargains. And by a judge who let it all happen.
Why?
Arrogant anger. Revenge. And the fact that once a planted rumor, or
story, or accusation of child abuse is uttered, it takes on a life
of it's own, gains momentum like a rock rolling down a mountain, crushing
nearly all obstacles in it's path. For over 4 decades now an accusation
of Shaken Baby Syndrome/child abuse has translated directly into a
conviction in most cases. It's also a fact that SBS never moved beyond
the scientific status of an unproven medical hypothesis--an idea--which
has now been proven wrong so conclusively that the name had to be
changed to something that describes a head impact with force equal
to a fall from a two story building or being unrestrained (with an
infant's head striking a dashboard or windshield) in a 35mph vehicle
crash. Evidence of severe external head injuries is rarely found,
nor neck injuries resulting from violent shaking. http://thesyndromefilm.com/
But the medical and legal communities continue to ignore science in
a tragically high number of these cases. Even worse than the
devastation to falsely accused caretakers and everyone in their lives,
is the terrifying reality that a misdiagnosed infant's life can be
put at risk or even lost through ignorance or the refusal of medical
professionals to search for possible medical causes that might be
treatable if not denied, overlooked or ignored to protect decades
of medical error.
"Differential
Diagnosis" is the distinguishing of a particular
disease or condition from others that present similar symptoms.
Some disease symptoms mimic injury. Some injuries mimic disease symptoms.
It's required in any medical situation where symptoms can be misdiagnosed,
particularly in cases of suspected abuse. For example, Vitamin C deficiency
(scurvy, infantile--Barlow's Disease, or adult form) is a hemorrhagic
condition where capillary bleeding can occur anywhere in the body,
including on the surface of the brain and on the skin covering of
the bones where it turns into callus formation that looks identical
to healing fractures on x-rays. (Subperiosteal
Hemorrhage) Differential Diagnosis is required. It is almost never
done, in spite of the fact that the doctor "credited" with
creating the SBS hypothesis listed scurvy as a differential diagnosis
for the symptoms he thought were caused by shaking ...but never eliminated
as a cause. Nor did the medical profession go through the normally
and necessarily rigid process of converting an unproven hypothesis
into a proven theory. The "birth" of Shaken Baby Syndrome
occurred like a magical event, blinding onlookers to it's alien, illegitimate
origins. It was accepted without question, with open arms, and spawned
an international medical, legal and business enterprise. For example,
who among you have never seen the famous video (several now) of a
man demonstrating the violent shaking of a lifelike baby doll and
had the image burned into your brain?
No
More "Shaken Baby Syndrome" Or "Shaken-Impact Syndrome":
They have to change the name
On April 27, 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics published
a new policy statement in their medical journal, "Pediatrics",
described as "the peer-reviewed, scientific journal of the America
Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)":
"ABUSIVE
HEAD TRAUMA: A NEW NAME FOR SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME
Shaken
baby syndrome is a term often used by doctors and the public to describe
abusive head trauma inflicted on infants and young children. While
shaking an infant can cause neurologic injury, blunt impact or a combination
of shaking and blunt impact can also cause injury. In recognition
of the need for broad medical terminology that includes all mechanisms
of injury, the new AAP policy statement, “Abusive Head Trauma
In Infants and Children,” recommends pediatricians embrace the
term “abusive head trauma” to describe an inflicted injury
to the head and its contents. Pediatricians should learn to recognize
the signs and symptoms of abusive head trauma, including those caused
by both shaking and blunt impact, and consult with pediatric sub specialists
when necessary. "
SBS as a descriptive
term had to be changed to "Abusive Head Trauma", but "authorities"
refused to let it go and simply claim now that when babies are shaken,
their heads are pounded against something with terrific force. To
admit the shaking hypothesis wrong would have inconceivable repercussions.
John
did not suffer this wrongful imprisonment alone. Baby Mama Melissa
was also arrested, convicted and imprisoned on false charges, but
only received half the prison time John did. Why was John targeted
in particular? Because the pediatrician told law enforcement that
"in his experience, mothers didn't harm their babies." Nor
was John and Melissa alone. Each year there are hundreds of similar
cases. Multiply that by decades, since the early 1970's, and the numbers
stagger the imagination.
THE
JOHN LAVERTY, JR. STORY
John--Graduated
from a college trade program in prison.2009. Sentenced to 16.6
years in 2001. |
John
at 18, with the mother of his older child Sierra at a family
Christmas party. |
John
with Baby Sierra in 1999--Casey's half sister.
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John
and Michelle, the mother of his older child, Baby Sierra
I
met John when he was 18. My 17-year-old daughter brought him home
for Christmas in December, 1998. Everyone liked John, a sweet, good-natured,
big teddy-bear of a young man. So polite and accommodating to everyone.
His strict Korean mother raised him to be respectful, and his German
American, ex-military, former police and Corrections Officer father
probably had a hand in it earlier on.
Prior
to their relationship, John had medical records claiming he was sterile,
so finding out they were pregnant shocked both parents-to be. Michelle
thought John falsified a medical report and lied to get her pregnant
on purpose, and John thought Michelle cheated. But the birth of baby
Sierra, who looked just like her father, the following July at least
confirmed paternity.
John
and Michelle were great parents
during the time they were together.
Michelle was a loving, protective new mother who trusted John completely
and he became a hands-on parent; a worshipful, loving, doting daddy
to his first child. He cooked, cleaned, bathed and fed baby Sierra,
changed dirty diapers, and happily helped take care of her when he
was home from work. Crying didn't bother him, or vomiting, or waking
up in the middle of the night. Michelle even left him with the baby
to go on an overnight trip to visit friends. He was happy with
fatherhood. The only complaint Michelle ever made was when she saw
him sitting on the couch, bouncing the baby in his hands to make her
laugh. She herself described "freaking out" and "reading
him the riot act" about "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (SBS).
SBS "advertising" had her so convinced that even just playing
with baby this way threatened her life, and she wasn't alone in this
fear. So many people contacted the national SBS organization about
similar actions they witnessed, that the company had to put a notice
on their website assuring the public that bouncing and playing with
babies in similar fashion DOES NOT CAUSE SBS.
http://dontshake.org/sbs.php?topNavID=3&subNavID=24
Can Tossing or Rough Play Cause SBS/AHT?
"The
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome fields numerous calls from
anxious parents and care givers each week, wondering if everyday
play activities can possibly cause shaken baby syndrome. These parents
usually call after a well-meaning relative or friend has cautioned
them regarding such activities as using an infant swing, tossing
a child in the air or bouncing a baby on the caregiver's knee. These
callers are reassured once a staff member from the National Center
explains SBS/AHT and the violence necessary to cause it.
The
National Center and its International Advisory Board issues this
position statement on the relationship between shaken baby syndrome
and normal affectionate handling or innocent play activities:
"Activities
involving an infant or a child such as tossing in the air, bouncing
on the knee, placing a child in an infant swing or jogging with
them in a back pack, do not cause the brain, bone, and eye injuries
characteristic of shaken baby syndrome. The
forces required are distinctly different than those sustained by
children in the activities described above or in short falls."
Unfortunately, the relationship
between the young parents failed. John worked long hours for a furniture
hauling company which fueled a lot of paranoia and jealousy in Michelle
who was seriously hormonal during her pregnancy and afterward. Where
John was more laid back and wanted a quiet home life, Michelle had
anger issues arising earlier trauma, a more fiery personality, and
at times a violent temper. By her own admission she assaulted John
(who didn't fight back), shoving him into a wall over some misunderstanding,
and he left what had become a roller coaster relationship. They were
too young and inexperienced in working through relationship problems
and personality differences to stay together.
In the last week of Michelle's
pregnancy, an aquaintance of John's, Melissa B who was homeless, moved
in with the couple temporarily. One notable issue came up from the
beginning. Melissa refused to eat at the apartment. All she wanted
was coffee sweetened with sugar, and since Michelle was allergic to
a combination of sugar with other foods, she didn't keep any in the
house, so Melissa B lived on black coffee as far as late pregnancy
Michelle witnessed.
Conflict between the two
girls ended Melissa's stay at the apartment. A month later John and
Michelle's relationship ended and Melissa stepped in. A few months
and one broken condon later, John's second child was on the way. Unplanned
but welcomed and soon to be adored. John was a young man who loved
babies and looked upon his children as miraculous.
John
and Melissa B, the mother of his second daughter, Baby Casey
During Melissa B's pregnancy,
she and John lived with his mother and stepfather for about 6 months
total during two different periods of time, but she didn't get along
with them and so it never ended well. In between, they rented a room
with friends, and at one point were even homeless when John got temporarily
laid off from work.
Melissa suffered from a
number of conditions and misfortunes in her life. Her father committed
suicide in prison, reportedly due to his experiences as a Vietnam
veteran. According to her aunt, Melissa's relationship with her mother
was so rocky and destructive that the aunt had at one time tried to
"kidnap" Melissa to rescue her from a bad home life. Melissa's
mother later turned on her own child when questioned
by the police when she was arrested for reasons that had nothing to
do with the case, like someone who is compulsively abusive.
Melissa also had health
issues. She suffered from a lifelong chronic
eye inflammation--iritis, listed as an observed symptom
in vitamin C deficiency studies, although it may have other causes--and
told the police about being in "Special Ed" due to learning
disabilities and social problems caused by ADD or something similar,
although there may have been more to the story. She was a high school
dropout, but not mentally disabled--she later got her GED in jail
which is no small accomplishment. The GED math test alone is more
than many high school students could pass.
She had apparent emotional
problems, anger issues, and was overly aggressive in some ways while
exceptionally timid and fearful in other ways. In short, she had a
complicated history and an equally complex personality, proved to
be difficult to live with around other people, but by all reports
John was gentle, caring and protective of her. She feared the "outside
world" and depended on John. In spite of everything, they appeared
to get on peacefully together.
John's stepfather contributed
information about Melissa. He wrote about her smoking inside, against
the house rules, which is something doctors warn expectant mothers
to avoid because smoking can harm an unborn child as well as the mother.
Melissa was receiving prenatal care, but there is serious question
about the quality of that care. They made it clear to Melissa that
she must avoid smoking around the baby after it was born, so she would
go outside to avoid exposing her daughter to second-hand smoke, but
they either didn't tell her or make it clear that smoking during pregnancy
was harmful, and that smoking while she was nursing would affect breast
milk.
John's stepfather Bob also
described Melissa's alarming eating habits to me during a phone conversation.
Melissa's
pregnancy "diet"
Michelle told me about
Melissa refusing to eat food when she stayed with them, reporting
that she never saw her do anything but drink copious amounts of coffee.
Bob verified the same eating habits. He said Melissa drank
8 to 10 cups of coffee a day, sweetened with huge amounts of sugar.
(Research has shown that drinking coffee causes a significant
loss of several vitamins and minerals, including vitamins B and C,
calcium, iron, and zinc.) He said she went through a 5lb bag
every few days. John's Korean mother cooked healthy meals
for the family, which Melissa refused to eat. John, who continued
to work long hours almost every day, was largely unaware of the extremity
of her problem in view of her pregnancy and the nutritional needs
of their unborn child. She did eat some, but he remembered it as mostly
occasional fast food or junk food like cookies and chips. I asked
him if she took prenatal vitamins? She had them, but refused
to take them because they upset her stomach. Again, prenatal
care nurses did nothing to help with the problem, or the fact that
she only gained 10 lbs during her pregnancy.
(...to be continued
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Casey:at
3 1/2 months, two months after being falsely diagnosed with SBS. |
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The horror of medical misdiagnosis
and legal injustice can happen to
any family, anywhere.
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The
Poisoned Needle
While Melissa was being tended to medically for abnormal
bleeding after delivery, John stayed in the hospital room and held
the baby. Casey
was born around 9PM. Doctors are
required to wait 12 hours before vaccinating, so on her second
day of life someone came in and pulled Baby Casey right out
of her father's arms to be vaccinated. He
objected. His older child was unvaccinated because of a family
history of life-threatening vaccine injuries, including a combined
Staph and Strept infection in the blood that caused a flesh-eating
infection so virulent that the whole family (family
history)
became infected through contact. However, he was told "it's
the law" and that he had no choice.
Someone lied. Washington State allows medical, religious and
personal exemptions, which was claimed for his older child,
Casey's half-sister CC. Besides the flesh-eating disease the mother
of his first child contracted immediately after her first and only
vaccination, the grandmother got hepatitis twice following tetanus
shots and was chronically ill after childhood vaccines, and the great
grandfather got Yellow Fever from that vaccine. A cousin developed
"Screaming syndrome" after her first shot, another cousin
got measles after a measles shot, and a lot of other adverse effects
were suspected. John had a valid reason for refusing shots for his
children and the legal right to do so which was denied by a medical
professional at Tacoma General Hospital.
John remembers
hearing them say "triple vax"--a term he otherwise was unfamiliar
with--but the records report only a Hepatitis B vaccination ...a vaccine
so dangerous to newborns that the public in France staged demonstrations
and a large group of people filed lawsuits for vaccine injury until
Hep B was removed from the childhood vaccine schedule.
Doctors and
nurses tend to look on the refusal to vaccinate infants and children
as a form of child abuse or neglect, but a few quotes sum up the other
side of the debate that few doctors ever question or research, or
if they do, they don't tell--especially pediatricians, whose incomes
come primarily from the infant and childhood shots.
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Getting
a vaccination does not guarantee immunity. (~CDC, January
28, 1994.)
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"Neutralizing
antibodies are reported to reflect levels of protection, although
this has not been validated in the field." (~Journal
of the American Medical Association, June 9, 1999, Vol. 281. No.
22)
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Vaccines
made from animal substrate contain animal viruses that are impossible
to filter out. By 1961, scientists discovered that animal viruses
in vaccines, including smallpox, could act as a carcinogen when
given to mice in combination with cancer-causing chemicals, even
in amounts too small to induce tumors alone. They concluded that
vaccine viruses function as a catalyst for tumor production. (~Science,
December 15, 1961.)
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THE
WASHINGTON POST, Feb.2, 1986 "Vaccines can be a risk for
infected persons--virus in vaccines, like natural virus infection...MAY
ACTIVATE LATENT VIRAL INFECTIONS."--Dr. Robert Gallo, National
Institute of Health
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By
the 1920s, several British medical researchers documented that
smallpox was not only more common among the VACCINATED, but that
the DEATH RATE from smallpox was actually higher among those who
had been vaccinated. This indicates that the vaccine was ineffective
and predisposed vaccinated persons to more lethal disease. (~Vaccination,
Dr. Viera Schreibner, 1993 pp. 205-220.)
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Encyclopedia Americana Vol.27, P.852 (1986) Vaccination
Article
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BANNED
IN AMERICA The
headlines and story featured in the
London Times on May 5th, 1987 that
we in the US were not allowed to read, reportedly due to a conspiracy
of silence agreed to by top journalists and scientists at a secret
meeting for the purpose of a cover-up. |
When vaccines are mentioned,
most people associate them with the eradication of polio and smallpox.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the "revisionist"
history we have all been spoon fed about these epidemics. Polio had
three main world-wide epidemics in the twentieth century. The first
two came and went as epidemics do. The third one we all hear about
was nearly ended before the polio vaccine was introduced. It was only
used in two countries, after which the numbers increased before going
back into a decline, and those 7-8 year olds who were chosen for the
mass vaccination cohort were in an age range least affected by polio,
which only has serious side effects in 1/2 of 1% of those with the
infection. The epidemic ended in unvaccinated countries without any
intervention accept the development of cleaner water and better waste
disposal systems as well more sanitary food supplies. Ask any surveyor.
It's part of their professional history.
The polio vaccine was contaminated
with a leukemia virus. After the mass vaccination of children, childhood
leukemia, which was almost unknown prior to the polio vaccine afterward
become one of the top 10 killers of children. For even worse information,
look up SV-40 (SV40) and HeLa cells.
The WHO (World Health Organization)
claim that vaccines eradicated smallpox was equally fictitious. The
smallpox vaccine had a disastrous history from the beginning. Look
up the past history of smallpox vaccine + Philippines. It triggered
many epidemics of smallpox and other diseases and conditions. WHO
field workers admitted in interviews for a book that the only thing
that actually worked was the ancient practice of quarantine, and that
"the real story would never be known". Even that didn't
eradicate smallpox so they just renamed it "Monkeypox".
That's how they "ended" smallpox.
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The
Unauthorized Hep B Vaccination: Documented Adverse Effects
http://www.rxlist.com/recombivax-drug.htm
Symptoms:
Studies involved observation for 5 days only
Pain, tenderness, pruritus,
erythema, ecchymosis, swelling, warmth, nodule formation, irritability,
fever ( = 101°F oral equivalent), diarrhea, fatigue/weakness,
diminished appetite, rhinitis, nausea; pharyngitis, upper respiratory
infection, sweating; achiness, sensation of warmth, lightheadedness;
chills, flushing, vomiting; abdominal pains/cramps; dyspepsia; influenza,
cough, vertigo/dizziness, paresthesia, pruritus, rash (non-specified);
angioedema; urticaria, arthralgia including monoarticular, myalgia;
back pain; neck pain, shoulder pain, neck stiffness, lymphadenopathy,
insomnia/disturbed sleep, earache, dysuria, hypotension, elevation
of liver enzymes, constipation, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, multiple
sclerosis; exacerbation of multiple sclerosis; myelitis including
transverse myelitis, seizure; febrile seizure; peripheral neuropathy
including Bell's Palsy; radiculopathy; herpes zoster; migraine; muscle
weakness; hypesthesia; encephalitis, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome; alopecia;
petechiae, eczema, arthritis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation
rate; thrombocytopenia, pain in extremity, systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE); lupus-like syndrome; vasculitis, polyarteritis nodosa, irritability;
agitation; somnolence, optic neuritis, tinnitus, conjunctivitis, visual
disturbances, syncope and tachycardia.
Hypersensitivity
Anaphylaxis and symptoms
of immediate hypersensitivity reactions including rash, pruritus,
urticaria, edema, angioedema, dyspnea, chest discomfort, bronchial
spasm, palpitation, or symptoms consistent with a hypotensive episode
have been reported within the first few hours after vaccination. An
apparent hypersensitivity syndrome (serum-sickness-like) of delayed
onset has been reported days to weeks after vaccination, including:
arthralgia/arthritis (usually transient), fever, and dermatologic
reactions such as urticaria, erythema multiforme, ecchymoses and erythema
nodosum
Patients, parents and guardians
should be instructed to report any serious adverse reactions to their
healthcare provider, who in turn should report such events to the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System (VAERS), 1-800-822-7967.31
The government admits that
only 1-10% of reactions are ever reported by doctors to VAERS. One
symptom left out of this list, among others, is...death.
Hospitalization:
Apnea
Casey
was born on Nov. 20th, 2000. By Nov. 23, Thanksgiving Day, she had
become lethargic and refused her bottle. Then she cried out and John
ran to console the baby. As he held her, Baby Casey's eyes rolled
back in her head, she became unresponsive to voice or finger-snapping,
and she appeared to quit breathing temporarily. He noticed
at that time that there was a yellow tint to her skin, and a bluish
darkening (oxygen deprivation) around her mouth. They rushed her to
Mary Bridge Children's Hospital, where no cause for the "apnea"
(breathing stops) episode was officially listed.
The possibility
of a vaccination adverse reaction was not even mentioned in the medical
records even though doctors are required by law to report all reactions
within 72 hours following vaccination to VAERS, the
government's vaccine injury department, but even the government
admits that only 1-10% of all known or suspected vaccine injuries
are ever reported by doctors. The Vaccine Adverse
Event Reporting System
does NOT publish reports from parents or caregivers. VAERS
was created to help victims. Instead, it was adversarial
from the beginning and works hard with a battery of attorneys to eliminate
as many cases as possible--around 75% of them. Doctors know better
than to report vaccine injuries or to even diagnose them. Careers
and reputations are put at risk if they do. The pressure against such
"whistle-blowing" is enormous.
The pediatric
records, whether by careless error or criminal design, record Casey
was vaccinated a day earlier than she was and admitted to the hospital
a day later, effectively side-stepping the reporting period.
Under-reporting
seems to be considered necessary to preserve the public "faith"
in the mostly compulsory vaccine programs and to avoid personal
blame and extremely expensive liability for "injury,"
although doctors are exempt and vaccine manufacturers refused
to accept liability from the 1980's on and have forced the government
to cover all claims, paying out over 1 billion dollars
in damages for the small percentage of cases they could
not succeed in dismissing. The government admits only 1-10%
of cases are reported by doctors and less than 25% of those
are compensated. |
Heart
Rate and Respiration Abnormalities
Casey was
put on a heart and respiration monitor. At one point the numbers were
so low that one doctor questioned whether the monitor had malfunctioned
in some way, but Dr. Viera Schreibner of Australia noted the same
abnormal readings on equipment when they monitored infants in a "cot
watch" breathing pattern study, unexpectedly documenting that
there were a series of key days of vaccine reactions that were worse
than other days, and that these reactions could continue for a month.
The vaccine connection was after the studies were evaluated, not before.
Breathing
pattern studies that became vaccination "adverse reaction"
studies
From the Cot watch graphs of Dr.Vera Schreibner: "It
is obvious that even though baby one reacted much more than
baby two (referring to computer chip read-outs on two infants
she studied), the flare-ups of stressed breathing followed
the same pattern of critical days, the most important of these
being day 2, after which day the stress level
went down and started rising again between days 5 and
7, when the stress level subsided and started increasing
again between days 14-16, subsided again and
rose again between days 19-24, after which
it subsided and rose again towards the 28th day
and so on, following closely the pattern of alarms as recorded
by a mother of one baby (figure 1). Days 10 or 11
also emerged as critical days in babies who reacted strongly,
such as baby one."
"One
must also take into consideration that in statistics you always
have a slight spread of a day or two before or after the critical
days. One can also rephrase it that nature does not necessarily
operate in a sudden, cut-off fashion but in a building-up and
tapering-off way." --Dr. Vera Schreibner |
"A
Rare Blood Disease" (Sepsis) --No, No, "Hospital Error"
While Casey
was in the hospital, blood work was done and a doctor told the parents
she had "a rare blood disease" after she tested positive
for strept and staph, just like the infection that nearly killed the
mother of John's first child after her first vaccination. They put
Baby Casey on IV antibiotics for 3 days. One doctor thought it was
an apnea incident. Another physician, Later, after a lot of "poking
and prodding" and no more findings of infection, Dr. C (who became
their pediatrician) arbitrarily decided it was more likely a matter
of contamination--a hospital error. It's more likely that the antibiotics
cleared the infection from the blood, but the only way to verify that
infection hadn't spread to the brain beyond the blood-brain barrier
was to test the cerebral spinal fluid. They tried to do this twice
but failed to collect any fluid. The symptoms she had, including lethargy
(an indication of a brain neurological condition) are consistent with
encephalitis among other things.
The matter of the antibiotics
is something to consider. According to her medical records, after
her blood tested positive for Strept and Staph, Baby Casey was put
on Ampicillin and Ceftriaxone. AMPICILLIN.
CEFTRIAXONE
IS CONTERINDICATED FOR INFANTS WITH HIGH BILIRUBIN.
ADVERSE
REACTIONS:
AMPICILLIN
Diarrhea;
pain, swelling, or redness at injection site, black "hairy"
tongue; inflammation and redness of the tongue; nausea; second infection;
vomiting.Hemic and Lymphatic Systems– Anemia, thrombocytopenia,
thrombocytopenic purpura, eosinophilia, leukopenia, and agranulocytosis
have been reported during therapy with the penicillins. Skin rashes
and urticaria have been reported frequently. A few cases of exfoliative
dermatitis and erythema multiforme have been reported. Liver–
A moderate rise in serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT)
has been noted, particularly in infants. Additional systemic reactions
reported--itching, candidiasis, fatigue, malaise, headache, chest
pain, flatulence, abdominal distension, glossitis, urine retention,
dysuria, edema, facial swelling, erythema, chills, tightness in throat,
substernal pain, epistaxis and mucosal bleeding. Hepatic: Increased
AST (SGOT), ALT (SGPT), alkaline phosphatase, and LDH. Hematologic:
Decreased hemoglobin, hematocrit, RBC, WBC, neutrophils, lymphocytes,
platelets and increased lymphocytes, monocytes, basophils, eosinophils,
and platelets. Blood Chemistry: Decreased serum albumin and total
proteins. Renal: Increased BUN and creatinine.Urinalysis: Presence
of RBC's and hyaline casts in urine.
Gastrointestinal:
Gastritis, stomatitis, and enterocolitis. Onset of pseudomembranous
colitis symptoms may occur during or after antibiotic treatment.
Pediatric Patients:Available
safety data for pediatric patients treated with Ampicillin and Sulbactam
demonstrate a similar adverse events profile to those observed in
adult patients. Additionally, atypical lymphocytosis has been observed
in one pediatric patient receiving Ampicillin and Sulbactam. Thrombophlebitis.
Rash; hives; itching; difficulty breathing; tightness in the chest;
swelling of the mouth, face, lips, or tongue; stomach pain or cramps;
unusual bruising or bleeding; vaginal irritation or discharge; vein
inflammation or tenderness; white patches in mouth.
http://www.peacehealth.org/kbase/cam/hn-1317001.htm:
Summary of Interactions for Ampicillin--Depletion or interference
Vitamin C*
Vitamin K*, Interactions with Supplements
Vitamin C: Test tube studies
show that ampicillin significantly reduces the amount of vitamin C
in the blood.1 Controlled research is needed to determine whether
individuals might benefit from supplementing vitamin C while taking
ampicillin.
1. Alabi ZO, Thomas KD,
Ogunbona O, Elegbe IA. The effect of antibacterial agents on plasma
vitamin C levels. Afr J Med Med 1994;23:143-6.
Vitamin K
Several cases of excessive
bleeding have been reported in people who take antibiotics.7, 8, 9,
10 This side effect may be the result of reduced vitamin K activity
and/or reduced vitamin K production by bacteria in the colon. One
study showed that people who had taken broad-spectrum antibiotics
had lower liver concentrations of vitamin K2 (menaquinone), though
vitamin K1 (phylloquinone) levels remained normal.11 Several antibiotics
appear to exert a strong effect on vitamin K activity, while others
may not have any effect. Therefore, one should refer to a specific
antibiotic for information on whether it interacts with vitamin K.
Doctors of natural medicine sometimes recommend vitamin K supplementation
to people taking antibiotics. Additional research is needed to determine
whether the amount of vitamin K1 found in some multivitamins is sufficient
to prevent antibiotic-induced bleeding. Moreover, most multivitamins
do not contain vitamin K.
7. Suzuki K, Fukushima T, Meguro K, et al. Intracranial hemorrhage
in an infant owing to vitamin K deficiency despite prophylaxis. Childs
Nerv Syst 1999;15:292-4.
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CEFTRIAXONE:
LOCAL
REACTIONS—Phlebitis was reported in <1% after IV administration.
HYPERSENSITIVITY—rash (1.7%). Less frequently
reported (<1%) were pruritus, fever or chills. HEMATOLOGIC—eosinophilia
(6%), thrombocytosis (5.1%) and leukopenia (2.1%). Less frequently
reported (<1%) were anemia, hemolytic anemia, neutropenia, lymphopenia,
thrombocytopenia and prolongation of the prothrombin time.
GASTROINTESTINAL—diarrhea (2.7%). Less
frequently reported (<1%) were nausea or vomiting, and dysgeusia.
The onset of pseudomembranous colitis symptoms may occur during or
after antibacterial treatment (see WARNINGS). HEPATIC—elevations
of SGOT (3.1%) or SGPT (3.3%). Less frequently reported (<1%) were
elevations of alkaline phosphatase and bilirubin. RENAL—elevations
of the BUN (1.2%). Less frequently reported (<1%) were elevations
of creatinine and the presence of casts in the urine.CENTRAL
NERVOUS SYSTEM—headache or dizziness were reported occasionally
(<1%).GENITOURINARY—moniliasis or vaginitis were reported
occasionally (<1%). MISCELLANEOUS—diaphoresis and flushing
were reported occasionally (<1%).
Other adverse reactions include abdominal pain, agranulocytosis, allergic
pneumonitis, anaphylaxis, basophilia, biliary lithiasis, bronchospasm,
colitis, dyspepsia, epistaxis, flatulence, gallbladder sludge, glycosuria,
hematuria, jaundice, leukocytosis, lymphocytosis, monocytosis, nephrolithiasis,
palpitations, a decrease in the prothrombin time, renal precipitations,
seizures, and serum sickness.
ENDOTOXIN
RELEASE FROM ANTIBIOTIC OR VACCINE USE, OR FOLLOWING INFECTION
Different
endotoxin release and IL-6 plasma levels after antibiotic administration
in surgical intensive care patients
Holzheimer, RG; Hirte, JF; Reith, B; Engelhardt, W; Horak, KH; Leppert,
R; Aasen, A; Capel, P; Urbaschek, R; Karch, H; Thiede, A Journal
of Endotoxin Research [J. ENDOTOXIN RES.]. Vol. 3, no. 3. 1996.
"Despite the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics, aggressive fluid
resuscitation, vasopressor support, the mortality associated
with Gram-negative sepsis and septic shock has not decreased significantly
in the last two decades. The consequences of host exposure to endotoxin
and the relationship of antibiotic administration to endotoxin release
have become important areas of intense interest. In vitro
studies have demonstrated that there was a difference in endotoxin
release between PBP-3 specific antibiotics ( beta -lactam antibiotics)
and PBP-2 specific antibiotics (carbapenems). This is the first clinical
report of surgical patients admitted to the surgical and anaesthesiology
intensive care unit on the missing endotoxin release after imipenem
treatment; however cefotaxime and ceftriaxone
showed significantly more positive endotoxin tests in the plasma when
compared to imipenem. Ciprofloxacin
and vancomycin were intermediate in endotoxin release and tobramycin
did not cause endotoxin release. There were also significant differences
in endotoxin neutralizing capacity. IL-6 levels were decreased after
imipenem faster than after ceftriaxone or cefotaxime; ciprofloxacin
seemed to increase IL-6. Endotoxin may be harmful in patients where
the immune system has been continuously challenged. Timing, dosage,
or combination with other compounds as well as the effect of antibiotics
on macrophages need to be tested in larger clinical trials. In this
respect a consecutive study was started. "
ADVERSE
EFFECTS OF ENDOTOXINS: (toxins released from bacteria cells walls
when they die)
http://www.freeyurko.bizland.com/kaloksb1.html
(Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D.)
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Endotoxin
can in itself, cause coagulation/bleeding disorders.
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Endotoxin
uses vast quantities of Vitamin C while being ‘detoxified’
(involving free radical reactions).
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Vitamin
C deficiency can, in itself, cause haemorrhages.
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Vitamin
C deficiency can, in itself, cause spontaneous fractures.
Endotoxin
can target the brain by:
1. specifically, and selectively, damaging the endothelial linings
of cerebral blood vessels
2. breaking the blood-brain barrier
3. seeping into the cerebral tissue
4. causing anoxia by a direct effect on the respiratory centre
5. initiating a rapid series of biochemical disturbances, including
free radical reactions, leading to an extremely rapid onset
of cerebral edema—with a host of possible complications
6. causing coagulation/bleeding disturbances. |
High
Bilirubin and Jaundice
Baby Casey
was, however, unquestionably diagnosed with a high
bilirubin count and jaundice, considered "normal"
in newborns but which usually resolves in 3-4 days, not many days
later as it did in Baby Casey. Dr. C. also claimed "breast milk"
was "probably" the cause of the high bilirubin and jaundice.
However, both apnea and these these conditions are also linked to
vaccine injury, as well as junk food and excess sugar
in the diet. He wasn't even aware that because of Melissa's scanty
supply of pumped breast (she gave up nursing as quickly as possible
because of the discomfort), John had almost immediately put Baby Casey
on baby formula as her main food supply, and chose soy formula due
to a family history of dairy intolerance. (There are medical journal
accounts of soy formula alone causing Barlow's disease--infantile
scurvy.)
"Extremely
high levels of bilirubin in infants may cause kernicterus, a form
of brain damage. Signs of severe hyperbilirubinemia include
listlessness, high-pitched crying, apnea
(periods of not breathing),
arching of the back, and seizures. If severe hyperbilirubinemia
is not treated, it can cause mental retardation, hearing loss,
behavior disorders, cerebral palsy, or death."
Urine
Tint
According the the medical record, Casey's urine test came up abnormal.
On online check revealed that it could be associated with bone absorption.
First
Sign of Abnormal Bruising
At the end of Baby
Casey's extended hospital stay, one of the medical attendants who
drew blood from her foot held her leg to do so and left a bruise there,
in a first sign of possible "abnormal bruising".
John saw it and confronted the man about it, but it was shrugged off.
John Laverty
worked long, hard hours to earn a good living for a young man his
age, but when his baby daughter lost consciousness and appeared to
stop breathing soon after birth, he rushed her to the hospital and
took time off work to stay in the room with her day and night, to
find out what was wrong and to make sure she was properly cared for
and never left alone right up until his boss threatened to fire him
if he didn't come back to work, but only Casey appeared to be out
of danger. He was not not happy with all of the poking and prodding
done, with no clear answers about what had happened. And he was not
happy that a medic had bruised his child.
The pediatrician
told the parents if they wanted to retain him as Casey's doctor, to
call him in a few days at the pediatric clinic where he had his office
for an "after-hospital" checkup. John lost the number but
was finally able to track it down later. When he called, the doctor
had gone on vacation and instead of being referred to another doctor,
he was told they would have to wait until the doctor returned.
The
Nurse Consulation Phone Service
As Casey was being
discharged from Mary Bridge Children's Hospital (the children's wing
of Tacoma General Hospital) on Nov. 27th, 2000 after five days in
the hospital, a nurse handed John and Melissa a white business card
with an 800 number to a nurse consultation phone service under contract
with the hospital to call for any health concerns. While waiting for
the doctor to return from vacation, they had occasion to call the
nursing "hotline" a number of times.
A
Home Visiting Nurse Comes To Check On Baby Casey
The
day after Casey got home from the hospital, Nurse Kristin Schmidt
came to see the family. Her later report on this visit:
Symptoms
Following Baby Casey's Release From The Hospital
The first apparent life-threatening
event--apnea--occurred on Thanksgiving Day,
Nov. 23, 2000 making it 2
days after the Hep B vaccination
on Nov. 21. The first sign
of abnormal bruising, seen after Casey's leg was held to draw blood
from her foot, was around Monday,
day
7 after the shot. By the time Casey was released after
5 days, her behavior had begun to deteriorate, but there was nothing
specific for the next few days that John could remember, except that
she remained lethargic--a "sleepy baby" while at the same
time more fussy and irritable. By day
14 or so, Casey had taken a noticeable turn for the
worse and had become even more lethargic and sleepy, irritable,
had a "creepy way of turning her heels in" as John described
it, and was far more fussy when held.
Melissa
would leave Casey in the bassinet all day, but as soon as John came
home from work he wanted to be with his daughter for the rest of the
night. Even Melissa later remarked that he was a little jealous because
she got to be with Casey all day while he had to work. She couldn't
handle dirty diapers, so as soon as he got home he took Casey in to
change her diaper at the same time he got out of his work clothes.
He fed her, bathed her, and spent the rest of the night holding her
while he watched tv. She was more fussy when being held, but John
thought it was because he was gone all day and she "forgot"
him. He had no way of knowing that her symptoms, particularly the
frog-leg posture, were classic signs of Barlow's disease, and that
subperiosteal hemorrhaging in the legs was the cause of the posture
due to intense pain aggravated by movement.
Temporary
Change In Casey's Skull Shape
As
John tells it, a frightening thing happened a few days before
the most acute symptoms began. He came home from work and noticed
that Baby Casey had something going on with her head. He said,
"Well, like her head was elongating and turning into a 'cone
head' shape.'' He called the nurse's hotline immediately and the nurse
laughed it off and assured him it was just a temporary condition caused
by the baby lying on her side too long. The was the position
the doctor at the hospital told the parents to use because she was
a "shallow breather." He was told to lay her on her back
and "go to bed." The next day her skull shape was back to
normal.
There
are accounts of babies developing flat spots on the back of their
heads from sleeping on their backs. Their skulls are still relatively
soft in infancy. But this is also something that happens to babies
with Vitamin D deficiency. According to medical literature, bone disease
starts with abnormal thinning of the sides and back of the skull,
and if it persists, individuals with this deficiency can develop characteristic
dome-shaped skulls with "bossed" (protruding) foreheads,
which describes Casey's appearance in photos several months later.
Rickets or sub clinical rickets have other diagnostic signs and symptoms.
Historically, scurvy and rickets were often found together.
Casey
Becomes Acutely ill Late At Night After Christmas Shopping
On
Tuesday 12-12-00, 21 days after
her vaccination,
Baby Casey became acutely ill from respiratory
problems with severe lung congestion and difficulty
breathing. John and Melissa had bundled her up and went
out to do some shopping. Around 11pm that night Casey had become congested
and her breathing was labored, so John called the hotline. The nurse
said it was just a bad cold and they didn't need to bring her in.
Melissa stayed on the phone with the nurse who talked John through
the Baby Heimlich Maneuver for choking to help Baby Casey cough up
the mucus that was making it hard for her to breath. It required back-patting
off and on all night, about once an hour. She
coughed up white froth and he would suction it out of her mouth until
the last time about 5am in the morning, when a yellow mucus plug came
up. After that she was able to sleep.
When he left for work about 6am, she was resting peacefully when he
kissed her goodbye.
When
John came home that evening, on Wednesday,
at
22 days,
he saw a small sore at the corner of her mouth and her eyes were bloodshot
with red lids. Melissa told him she had started this high-pitched
crying around noon and her eyes got red after that. He called the
nursing hotline to talk about it, and they assured him it was "colic"
and "red eyes from crying" and that Casey "didn't need
to be seen."
Then
she developed this brown discoloration under her lower lip that looked
like she had been "eating chocolate and drooled". He wondered
if it was "wind burn" from being out in the weather the
evening before, even though he had her warmly dressed and wrapped.
The next morning it had separated into four distinct "messy sores"
at the corners of her mouth on each side with two more rimming her
lower lip, spaced almost equally apart. John called the hotline again
about the sores. The nurse said it was just cold sores, and to keep
A&D lotion on it. Also, that she "didn't need to be seen."
He kept the clear, greasy lotion on the sores right up through the
time the went to a pediatric appointment the following Monday. The
doctor had finally returned from vacation and called them to set the
time. It was supposed to have been a hospital follow-up but he scheduled
it as a one month "well-baby" appointment.
At
23 days, (Thursday) John came home and noticed a little
bit of blood in Casey's saliva. He figured she was teething and just
suctioned it out and didn't bother the nurse. It did not recur.
Around 24-25 days after
her shot, the diarrhea started. Casey had remained
congested and fussy with the high-pitched crying, and still had noisy
breathing, but didn't seem to be as ill as she was the first night.
No fever--just congested respiration and a runny nose. He also noticed
that she had been grunting.
On
Friday night, Dec. 15th, John was alone with the baby for the first
time. Melissa had gone out to have coffee with her estranged mother
and left Casey with John. He was sitting on the bed playing with her
by holding her horizontally and bouncing her in his hands to make
her laugh. He doesn't know how it happened, but she slipped through
his hands. Her fall was broken by a padded laundry basket beside him
on to a carpeted floor. She quit crying as soon as he grabbed her
up and hugged her to his chest in a panic, and she didn't have a bump
or bruise on her after bumping her head on the rim of the laundry
basket, but he immediately called the nurse's hotline, told them what
happened, and asked what to do. The nurse went through a detailed
checklist for any sign of injury, decided there was none and told
him it wasn't necessary to bring her in to be seen.
Baby
Casey was sleeping peacefully when Melissa and her mother returned.
She didn't know anything had happened and John didn't volunteer the
information, particularly when he had done it before in front of her
and she got mad. In fact, he had done the same thing with his older
daughter several times, and her mother had a fit too, and told him
to do it by pumping his arms up and down with her instead of bouncing
her in the flat of his hands.
On Saturday (Dec. 16th, 2000) John's mother and stepfather came to
visit. When I asked the stepfather how she seemed at that time, he
said she was lethargic as usual, but otherwise "fine".
When
John got home from work the next day (Sunday), he noticed a red spot
on Casey's left cheek and asked Melissa about it. Melissa thought
it was from the day before when John's mother was holding the baby
to her chest were she had a scarf pin, and that had left a mark. But
photographs taken a day or so later show it as an erupting pimple
or whitehead, so it was just a swelling where she was breaking out.
However, Melissa later told CPS that she had been holding Baby Casey
when she bumped into a wall or doorjamb that day or evening, also.
She didn't tell John about it at the time, but he didn't notice anything
different when he came home other than the spot on her cheek.
The next morning they had the pediatric appointment. It was John's
day off so he ran errands in the morning and then drove Melissa (Melissa
couldn't drive) and Baby Casey to the clinic an hour early. The appointment
was at 10:15 and they were there a little after 9am. John remembers
that Casey was "in a good mood", an alert "happy baby"
the day they went to the well-baby appointment on Dec.18th,
2000,
27 days after her shot.
He carried her inside in the car seat, but she got fussy when being
handled at the clinic.
The
Medical Assistant Discusses The Parent's Health Concerns
The doctor's
Medical Assistant, Shelly LaVergne came out and talked to the parents
and looked at Casey. John and Melissa were telling her about what
had been going on--a bad cold, colic, etc. The M.A. also thought the
4 skin lesions were cold sores, but was concerned about the red eyes
and eyelids and agreed to make certain the doctor discussed all of
this with them. Then she had John undress Casey and lay her on a cold
examining table. Casey let out an "ear-splitting scream"
and began what the M.A. described as "inconsolable high-pitched
crying" that alarmed her. She went in and told the doctor she
thought something was wrong. John was concerned too. He thought maybe
the cold surface had set her off because she had always been kept
warm and wrapped up, but he wanted answers to his health concerns,
although the nurses had continually told him it was just a bad cold,
colic, red eyes from crying and cold sores. Melissa was also concerned
about how little of her bottle Casey was taking at a time which she
described as about a half ounce.
When
the pediatrician came out, he kept trying to talk to Melissa, but
she was a "Special Ed" kid who didn't even know what kind
of Baby Formula they were using. John was the experienced parent who
had to teach her everything from scratch, and the primary caretaker
for all practical purposes, so if she didn't know something, John
would answer, or correct her if she "fibbed" like claiming
she was breast-feeding when she wasn't. Things weren't going well
between the doctor and John. John was distrustful because of his previous
experience with the hospital and doctors, and the doctor was perturbed
that John was taking the lead when he expected the mother of the child
to do so. John told him about everything, including the temporary
skull deformation, which didn't seem to faze him. He finally--in reference
to the skin lesions and red eyes--mumbled something about "child
abuse" and said he was sending Casey to the hospital to "get
checked out". Neither parent was happy about Casey going back
to the same hospital and doctors who had botched her earlier stay,
particularly since they had been assured by hotline nurses for days
that Casey didn't even need to be seen.
John was also
overheard saying the doctor was just doing it "for the money",
which got back to the doctor. He had someone call an ambulance around
11:45am, and then called the police but only to meet the ambulance
in case the parents tried to interfere with her being admitted to
the hospital, which he later stated along with an admission that there
hadn't been any trouble. They wanted to go in the ambulance with Casey,
but the EMT's told them they weren't allowed to, besides which John
had the car and needed to drive it to the hospital. Apparently Melissa
was afraid to go in it anyway, telling someone because it "went
too fast".
The
Medical Assistant's Report
TRANSCRIBED
REPORT: This was the first person to observe and examine
baby Casey at the "well-baby" visit with
the pediatrician at the Northwest Pediatrics clinic on December
18th, 2000.
Called
parents back--FOB (father of baby) carrying baby, MOB (mother
of baby) carrying bag and car seat. Asked routine questions--normal
pregnancy, yes: Induced or spontaneous. delivery--mom looked
puzzled and looked at FOB--he responded with, "they broke
her H20". Asked if breast-fed or formula-fed. MOB replied
breast and FOB replied formula-then MOB said is given formula
@ times. MOB wasn't sure of name of formula. FOB replied Similac.
FOB
was asking about "red marks" on baby's eyes. MOB
said she contacted the Mary Bridge nurse because MOB has "arthritis"
[sic] and she (MOB) that the eye redness was arthritis (Melissa
was saying "iritis"). FOB and MOB said baby has
been crying a lot and maybe the eyes (then FOB showed me the
baby's eyelids that were red and discolored) could be from
the baby crying.
FOB
asked about the blisters on baby chin. I asked what happened.
FOB said they (MOB and FOB and baby) went shopping on Tuesday
12/12/00. Baby started coughing and FOB said the next day
she had the blisters. MOB said she (baby) had the blisters
after they got back from shopping. MOB said she called the
nurse @ Mary Bridge Hospital and told her about the blisters
and the nurse said she has a cold and doesn't need to be seen.
FOB
still holding baby while sitting down on bench. FOB placed
baby against his chest. FOB was wearing a white furry jacket.
Baby's face was against the fur. MOB told FOB to move her
head because MOB was afraid she would inhale some of the fuzzy
jacket. FOB stated if she (the baby) couldn't breath then
she (the baby) would turn her own head.
MOB
started talking about the baby being hospitalized for one
week because the baby stopped breathing. FOB said the doctors
all thought she had some kind of rare blood disease and she
(the baby) had to be "poked" and FOB said "She
had all kinds of shit done to her." FOB said they still
weren't sure what's wrong with her.
Baby
cried every time FOB moved her. I asked if baby usually cries
this much. MOB said yes. I asked even when baby came home
from the hospital? MOB replied "no, she has always cried
and my mother says she has colic. But the cry has been louder
the last 2-3 days." FOB replied that the baby "must
have a cold."
I
asked FOB and MOB to undress the baby down to her diaper so
that I can weigh her, get her length and check her head circumference.
FOB laid baby on table to undress her. Baby screamed piercing
cry. I asked MOB if the baby usually cried like that. She
said yes. The MOB & FOB wanted to know if I thought the
baby had colic? I said I would make a note of it and Dr. Clapper
would be able to give them an answer. MOB looked over at the
baby and MOB said to FOB, "you can't hold her like that
because you left a red mark on her face". I looked at
baby's face and there was a small red mark on baby's left
cheek. FOB said he didn't touch her there, but he held her
head still by (then he showed me and MOB) placing his left
thumb on baby's right side of the temporal lobe and placed
his finger to the left side of the baby's temporal lobe. I
did not see any marks. MOB
asked why the baby would get marks so easily? I said that
the baby has sensitive skin and we have to be gentle with
them.
FOB
finished undressing the baby (while the baby cried). The FOB
carried the baby to the scale. I weighed the baby. I told
FOB to take the baby back to the room. He did and laid the
baby on the table. Once the FOB left the baby to still (?).
Baby stopped crying. I picked up the baby so I could turn
her to get her length. She cried. FOB and MOB were standing
next to me. I asked again if she always cries with that high
pitch. MOB replied, "She's just tired and has a cold."
I finished measuring her and told the FOB and MOB to wrap
the baby in a blanket and Doctor Clapper would be in shortly.
I
left the room and told Dr. Clapper that I thought there was
something wrong with the baby because of the high pitch cries
and the frequency of crying.
I
was putting the chart together and MOB came out of the room
by herself and said she was concerned about how little the
baby seemed to be eating. I asked how much does she eat &
MOB replied 1/2 ounce to 1 ounce every hour. I asked when
the baby eats the 1/2 to 1 ounce what does she (the baby)
do? MOB replied, "she falls asleep." I told MOB
that I would let Dr. Clapper know and he would give his advice
to how much he thought the baby should eat. She went back
to the room.
After
putting the paperwork for the baby together I went in their
room to give them the baby's measurements. FOB had the baby
on the table. I looked at the baby and she had what appeared
to me was Vaseline on her chin where the blisters were. I
asked the FOB what was on her, he replied "A & D
ointment;" that the nurse @ Mary Bridge told him to apply
the ointment.
Dr.
Clapper asked if I would get an O2Sat (?) on baby. I went
in there. MOB was very upset and crying. FOB was holding baby.
I told them what I was going to do. MOB said she knew about
that from when they went to the hospital for one week. FOB
replied that this was stupid and that there was nothing wrong
with the baby. MOB replied she was extremely tired of last
time she was at the hospital because the nurses @ T6 (Mary
Bridge) kept waking MOB up every two hours to feed the baby.
She seemed to be irritated about this. MOB replied saying
Dr. Clapper is over-reacting and that the baby just has a
cold, and there is nothing wrong with her. FOB seemed to be
angry. I asked if they wanted to talk with Dr. Clapper again,
they said no. After getting the 02SAT-which I told the parents
it was100% MOB said that having the baby go in the ambulance
was "freaking" (her?) out. MOB asked if they could
take the baby by their car. I told them I couldn't override
what Dr. Clapper had said and if they wanted to talk to Dr.
Clapper again and MOB asked ROB who was looking out the window
and just shrugged his shoulders. MOB started crying again
and said she would like to talk to Dr. Clapper.
When
paramedics arrived FOB and MOB stayed seated on the bench.
After the paramedics took her away. MOB was crying. Neither
FOB or MOB went with the baby in the ambulance. FOB and MOB
left after the baby was gone.
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To Mary Bridge Children's Hospital
John didn't think
anything was seriously wrong, so he dropped Melissa off at the hospital.
They arrived the same time the ambulance did, and Melissa carried
her in to be admitted, telling the nurse the doctor wanted her checked
out. John went on home to pack a bag for them, and stayed for a while
cleaning up the apartment before he went back, until Melissa told
him to get back to the hospital after a couple of hours--he had washed
dishes, picked up and was about to do some laundry when she called
him and ordered him back in a way that communicated trouble.
More editing.............(will
finish this in the next few days)
Melissa probably
had no idea of the damaging effects of her eating habits and the smoking
which includes interference with the absorption of iron, calcium,
other minerals and vitamins necessary to the developing fetus, particularly
vitamins K and C. She reportedly grew up with a deficient diet.
Along with smoking, this type of prolonged nutritional deficiency
state passes on to an unborn child, potentially resulting in or contributing
to the often fatal Cheadle-Möller-Barlow
syndrome (Barlow's
disease, Barlow disease, Möller-Barlow disease--infantile
scurvy) which is characterized by gingival lesions (only
when teeth are present), arthralgia, loss of appetite and weight
loss, listlessness, bone abnormalities (beading on the ribs and other
bones) that can be misread as healing fractures and actual spontaneous
fractures, or those that occur from normal handling or minor mishaps,
or major unseen fractures from birth injuries, bleeding internally,
hemorrhages, abnormal bruising, redness, swelling, blisters, slow
healing, an abnormal frog-leg position, and high-pitched crying
among other symptoms, all of which have been written about by the
internationally-known physician, the late Dr.
C.A.B. Clemetson among others, thanks mostly to the ground-breaking
work and published writings of world-famous Australian physician,
Dr. Archie Kalokerinos,
M.D. Apart from nutritional deficiencies, other triggering
factors such as infection
or the introduction of foreign proteins through vaccination
are believed by some researchers to accelerate fulminating scurvy,
causing a Barlow's disease variant
which appears to progress much faster than normal infantile scurvy.
(World-wide medical journal
articles.) This accelerated condition is now referred to
as Clemetson-Kalokerinos Syndrome by a group of physicians
familiar with the research and findings, who are not threatened by
the association with vaccine "adverse events".
Melissa herself
appears to have suffered from deficiency symptoms. She mentioned iritis
to the pediatrician's assistant
(who mistakenly thought the father had this condition), possibly associated
with vitamin C deficiency. It was a painful condition she suffered
from most of her life. Under stress and with this type of eating habits
she likely harbored many deficiency states which may have contributed
to her own earlier diagnosis of hyperactivity, learning disabilities
and abnormal behavior which led to a determination that she was "unfit
for trial" in an unrelated case that was settled by a guilty
plea in the middle of this case. This finding was overlooked or ignored
in both of her cases.
As previously
reported, Baby Casey was taken and injected with the Hep B vax over
the objection of her father while her mother was being tended to for
abnormal bleeding after delivery. The parents were given no information
about possible side effects
or signs to worry about, nor told to contact her physician if any
of the known symptoms appeared. One of the documented side effects--apnea,
occurred soon after. Connections have been made between a junk
food, refined sugar diet, and vaccinations,
and high bilirubin levels in the newborn and adults also. In fact,
bilirubin increases have been linked to vaccines. The high
bilirubin count may have contributed to the apnea.
Other symptoms associated with high bilirubin are: listlessness,
high-pitched crying, arching
of the back, and seizures.
Following
the Hep B vaccination and apnea incident, Baby Casey
developed a cascade of symptoms. We spent months with John
remembering what he could and answering my questions. At one point,
I asked without any explanation (8-8-07) if he had noticed any unusual
"frog
leg" postures, John said, "Yes,
she had this way of turning
her heels under that was creepy to look at."
The frog leg posture is pathognomic of Barlow's
disease. Later on, after she was put into foster care immediately
upon leaving the hospital, and when we arranged a visit, the foster
mom said Casey "didn't like to be held."
I also noticed when someone was holding her on their hip in a position
that would normally involve a little one clamping her knees around
someone's waist, that her legs seemed to splay
out abnormally and wondered about that, along with a stiff-legged
look apparent in one of the photos I took of her that day.
Many other details came up as we spoke over time that John hadn't
thought of until we were going through day-by-day accounts or realized
had any significance.
The pediatrician
filled out the clinic report marking everything as normal to begin
with and then went back later and altered it.
The
following are transcribed medical notes from that day. Some of them
appear to have been changed, and some things were added that were
not observed or reported in error at the pediatric clinic, according
to an opthomologist's report soon after.
-
Alert
and vigorous, crying
-
Head:
normal fontanelle, bruise ecchymoses (R) zygoma (there
was nothing on her right zygoma [cheekbone] until after she was
taken from her parents at the clinic)
-
"Something-type
(??) lesions" lower lip
(skin sores) Began as chocolate brown discoloration, next day
erupted into sores
-
Lung
congestion: "??? rales"
(spot on lungs from infection later described as probable lung
"contusion" (bruise)
-
"Irritable
crying not consolable" described the distinctive
cry that concerned the nurse in terms less recognizable than "inconsolable
high-pitched crying" usually associated with brain swelling/encephalitis
caused by vaccine adverse reactions
-
Crying/fussy
onset last week, had ??? (can't read)
-
Ecchymoses
over eyelids
-
Ears--OK
(they were not ok after she was handled at the hospital--concerns
listed on forensic report)
-
Breast
feeds: Melissa was unable to nurse, only had scant milk
to pump --Casey was fed mostly soy formula (dairy intolerance
in family)
-
Cries
a lot, sleeps ok
-
Subscleral
hemorrhages?
-
Fundal
hemorrhages?
Below
is an excerpt from the official report of ophthalmologist Clark W.
Deem, MD, called in to check for
expected retinal hemorrhages. No subscleral, fundal or retinal
hemorrhages found. Click for full
report.
However,
the pediatrician later told detectives he noted swelling
on her head, labored breathing,
and described her eyes as hemorrhaged
and her eyelids as black
on a later report.
(This
page needs revising, but a summary of legal and medical issues are
as follows)
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1.
The interdisciplinary groups involved with this case failed to investigate
it properly. They have guidelines that require a full investigation
of every aspect of the case, and that should have included the prior
medical and nutritional history. If they had done so, they would have
discovered the probability that Casey was born with multiple nutrition-based
metabolic diseases. Her mother lived on 8-10 cups of coffee per day,
sweetened with around two cups of sugar, refused the healthy food
she was offered and ate only junk food like cookies and chips, and
some fast food. She refused to take the prenatal vitamins she was
given, gained only 10lbs during her pregnancy, and smoked. Her eating
disorder was most likely caused by Vitamin C deficiency itself. There
were other signs, iritis and hemorrhaging for two days after giving
birth, which are all symptoms found in scurvy. She had prenatal care,
but obviously the quality of care bordered on criminal neglect or
they would have taken better care of her, gave her better prenatal
advice and caught signs of problems, particularly her lack of weight
gain. Casey's symptoms were consistent with Vitamin C deficiency (Barlow's
disease, or more specifically Barlow's disease variant, a vaccine
or infection-accelerated form of infantile scurvy-endotoxemia), D
deficiency, and possibly K deficiency. She also had characteristics
of Infantile Cortical Hyperostosis, which some online medical authorities
now believe may be an early manifestation or stage of Barlow's disease
(infantile scurvy). It wasn't just the prenatal diet and lack of nutrition--the
Hep B shot can cause massive states of Vitamin C deficiency and other
side effects, including brain swelling and a different kind of bleeding
disorder (thrombocytopenia) and the antibiotics can interfere with
the formation and absorption of Vitamin C and K, as well as other
serious side effects. Also, there are reports in the medical literature
of infantile scurvy being caused by soy formula alone (Casey had signs
of lactose intolerance). Doctors used to advise mothers who put their
babies on formula to supplement with orange juice. Now pediatricians
tell parents, "no juice until 4 months" and then advise
apple juice or other kinds that are low in Vitamin C, and even more
so in the store-bought juices that are pasteurized. The soy formula
wasn't wrong. Casey reacted to formula with dairy in it later, and
had to be put back on non-dairy formula, but without orange juice
or other Vitamin C rich juices or supplements, the problem was allowed
to continue.
2. The day after birth, Casey was given a Hep B shot against her father's
will. They told him he had no choice because it was “the law”--in
a state which allows personal exemptions from vaccination. Listed
side effects:
http://www.rxlist.com/recombivax-drug.htm
Symptoms: Studies involved observation for 5 days only Pain, tenderness,
pruritus, erythema, ecchymosis, swelling, warmth, nodule formation,
irritability, fever ( = 101°F oral equivalent), diarrhea, fatigue/weakness,
diminished appetite, rhinitis, nausea; pharyngitis, upper respiratory
infection, sweating; achiness, sensation of warmth, lightheadedness;
chills, flushing, vomiting; abdominal pains/cramps; dyspepsia; influenza,
cough, vertigo/dizziness, paresthesia, pruritus, rash (non-specified);
angioedema; urticaria, arthralgia including monoarticular, myalgia;
back pain; neck pain, shoulder pain, neck stiffness, lymphadenopathy,
insomnia/disturbed sleep, earache, dysuria, hypotension, elevation
of liver enzymes, constipation, Guillain-Barré Syndrome, multiple
sclerosis; exacerbation of multiple sclerosis; myelitis including
transverse myelitis, seizure; febrile seizure; peripheral neuropathy
including Bell's Palsy; radiculopathy; herpes zoster; migraine; muscle
weakness; hypesthesia; encephalitis, Stevens-Johnson Syndrome; alopecia;
petechiae, eczema, arthritis, increased erythrocyte sedimentation
rate; thrombocytopenia, pain in extremity, systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE); lupus-like syndrome; vasculitis, polyarteritis nodosa, irritability;
agitation; somnolence, optic neuritis, tinnitus, conjunctivitis, visual
disturbances, syncope and tachycardia.
Hypersensitivity:
Anaphylaxis and symptoms of immediate hypersensitivity reactions including
rash, pruritus, urticaria, edema, angioedema, dyspnea, chest discomfort,
bronchial spasm, palpitation, or symptoms consistent with a hypotensive
episode have been reported within the first few hours after vaccination.
An apparent hypersensitivity syndrome (serum-sickness-like) of delayed
onset has been reported days to weeks after vaccination, including:
arthralgia/arthritis (usually transient), fever, and dermatologic
reactions such as urticaria, erythema multiforme, ecchymoses and erythema
nodosum
This vaccine is
so dangerous that the French public demonstrated and filed civil suits
and got it removed from the infant vaccination schedule. Two days
later, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov.23, 2000, Casey stopped eating, became
lethargic and then quit breathing temporarily and became unresponsive
and was taking to Mary Bridge Children's hospital. The pediatrician
involved with this case, Dr. John Clapper, altered his pediatric records
to say that she was vaccinated a day earlier and went to the hospital
a day later than she did, possibly to avoid the 72 hr. vaccine injury
required reporting period the law requires.
Blood tests showed
an infection in the blood (sepsis) –and she was put on two very
dangerous antibiotics by IV for three days. She had jaundice, high
bilirubin, a urine reading consistent with bone resorption and such
abnormal heart and respiration readings at one point that one of the
doctors questioned whether the monitors had malfunctioned. They tried
unsuccessfully to take cerebral-spinal fluid to rule out infection
in the brain, beyond the reach of antibiotics (the blood-brain barrier),
and just assumed it wasn't there, even though her symptoms, particularly
lethargy indicated otherwise.
Dr. Clapper treated
all of her symptoms dismissively, claimed the infection was probably
“hospital error” from contamination, and that since no
doctor had witnessed the life-threatening apnea episode at home, suggested
that the parents had probably “over-reacted” and it never
happened.
3. As Casey was being discharged, the nurses gave the parents a white
business card with an 800 number to a nurse consultation phone service
(hotline) under contract with Mary Bridge Hospital to handle calls
about health issues. The parents were told that the phone nursing
service kept in-house records of the calls. John called Sheriff's
Det. Michael Hefty and gave him the 800 number, but instead of contacting
the nursing phone service, the detective went to the wrong hospital
(Tacoma General) and talked to the wrong nurses (floor nurses on duty
at the time). They don't keep records of calls to the nurse's stations
and of course didn't remember any calls from Casey's parents, because
that wasn't who they were calling. The Detective went as far as getting
a hospital information sheet with a different number to call for newborn
care, and then claimed the parents both lied about making numerous
calls to a nursing hotline. By failing to get the call records and
claiming the parents never made those calls, he was able to charge
both of them with felony negligence for failing to contact medical
authorities earlier. I spoke to the current director of the phone
consultation nursing service associated with Mary Bridge Children's
Hospital. She verified that they keep in-house records of who called,
when, why and about which child, exactly as the parents told the investigators
when questioned separately. However, she won't release the archived
phone records without a subpoena, and the case must be reopened before
subpoenas can be issued.
4. After Casey was released from the hospital, she remained lethargic
and several new symptoms developed: fussiness, irritability, poor
eating, not wanting to be held, and a frog-leg posture, all symptoms
included in medical literature on Barlow's disease, but she also had
the puffy cheeks (seen in forensic photos) characteristic of Infantile
Cortisol Hyperostosis which generally presents with a swollen lower
face and fractures in the ribs and clavicles, exactly what was found
when she was 28 days old.
5. One day when John came home from work, he saw that Casey's head
appeared to be changing into a cone or dome head shape. The hotline
nurse he called advised him to change her sleeping position from the
side (as advised by doctors because she was a “shallow breather”)
to her back, and to get some sleep and quit worrying. The next morning
her head had resumed a normal shape. There are many cases in medical
literature where infants have developed flattened skulls from lying
on their backs, but an overnight change would be unusual for a normal
infant, although characteristic of prolonged Vitamin D deficiency
where the skull becomes abnormally thin on the sides and back of the
head, potentially resulting in a permanent dome-shaped skull. Photographs
at three months show her dome-shaped skull, "bossed" (protruding
forehead), hair loss on the sides and back of her head, thickened
wrist joints, and she had other symptoms found in medical literature
including thumb contractures which required hand splints while she
was in foster care, all consistent with Vit. D deficiency. A study
from 2008 on Vit. D supplements (pills) suggests that taking this
synthetic form of D can make the problem worse, meaning that supplements
added to formula aren't doing the job. Vit. D deficiency is now recognized
as being epidemic in pregnant women, infants in particular and adults
in general.
6. A week before the second hospitalization, Casey developed a severe
respiratory condition and breathing difficulties. A hotline nurse
guided John through the Baby Heimlich Maneuver chest compressions
on the back to help break up congestion, which was repeated through
the night until she coughed up a plug of yellow mucus and was able
to sleep. Respiratory infections like that are symptoms found in both
Barlow's disease and Vitamin D deficiency.
7. The next day while John was at work, “inconsolable, high-pitched
crying” began—an exact description known world-wide of
“cri encéphalique”, the characteristic cry of encephalitis,
described as a “cerebral cry” caused by the pain of brain
swelling. Encephalitis is linked to all vaccines. In fact, vaccine
components have been used to experimentally induce encephalitis in
rat studies.
8. At the same time she developed subconjunctival hemorrhages and
red eyelids. A hotline nurse insisted it was just “colic”
and red eyes from crying, and that she “didn't need to be seen”
(that was their advice after every single call). Subconjunctival hemorrhages
along with swollen, diffusely hemorrhaged eyelids are diagnostic signs
of Barlow's disease, according to the medical literature.
9. About the same time, Casey had a tiny lesion at the corner of her
mouth which was followed by a chocolate brown discoloration under
her lower lip, and then three more lesions under the lower lip. I
Googled the description (as I did every single sign and symptom) and
discovered it in old scurvy literature—scurvy is a hemorrhagic
condition (vascular fragility) with systemic effects and bone disease,
often ending in “sudden death” (SIDS)--and the exact description
was of an extravasation of blood under the skin, appearing blue, purple,
black or brown, which can erupt on the surface into poorly healing
skin lesions (ulcerated sores). They look like cold sores, which the
hotline nurse insisted they were sight unseen and advised John to
apply K&D lotion. The medical assistant at the pediatric clinic
thought the same. THEY WERE NOT BURNS, as claimed by the ICU doctor,
nor “a severe cut or laceration” as described by the forensic
officer in his report. Any objective person looking at the forensic
photos would know those crusted sores were not burns, which also would
have left scars, seeped and been red around the edges. They might
have been cold sores or vaccine sores, but John's description of what
preceded the eruption led me to medical literature which identified
the true cause. Nor were they considered to be burns the first few
hours, or that description would have been on the forensic report
which was directed by the ICU doctor. They became “burns”
when everything was interpreted in terms of “abuse” to
blame the parents.
10. The next day John got home and found a little blood in Casey's
saliva and assumed she was just teething and suctioned it out. It
didn't recur. Bleeding from the gums, esophagus or stomach often occurs
in Barlow's disease. It was NOT from a contusion in the lungs as the
ICU doctor claimed days after the fact. There was no contusion. She
had “rales” (fluid in the lungs) and thickened lung walls
from infection, not injury. At least that (rales) is what the pediatrician
added to his clinic report. An area of “opacity” in a
lower lung lobe was interpreted as a contusion (bruise). They needed
to come up with some form of thoracic “damage” to support
the abuse accusation.
11. On the Friday before a pediatric appointment the following Monday,
which had been delayed because the doctor was on vacation and his
office refused to refer them to someone else, John was sitting on
his bed, playing with Casey by bouncing her in his hands (not smart,
but many people do it), when she slipped through his hands. Her fall
was broken by a padded laundry basket beside him onto a carpeted floor.
It didn't even raise a bruise, but he called the hotline, a nurse
went through a lengthy checklist and determined that Casey was uninjured,
and “didn't need to be seen”. Her grandparents saw her
the next day and told me she was fine, other than still lethargic
as she had been since two days after vaccination.
12. On the day of the pediatric appointment, which was supposed to
be an “after hospital” visit, but was listed by the doctor
as a “well-baby” appointment, John ran errands and then
picked up Melissa and the baby. They went an hour early and spent
it with Medical Assistant Shelly LaVergne. She wrote a detailed report
of the visit, all of the health concerns they brought up, and documented
that there wasn't a bruise on Casey's body, just a red spot on her
cheek that later erupted into a pimple or whitehead, as can be seen
in the forensic photos. Melissa thought it was caused by a scarf pin
the grandmother wore on her chest when she held Casey during a visit
on the previous Saturday. LaVergne became concerned when Casey was
laid on an examining table and let out an “ear-splitting”
scream, followed by what she described as “inconsolable, high-pitched
crying,” and went to get the doctor. Her concerns were listed
at the top of the clinic report as the crying, the cold-sore type
lesions and the red eyes. Her hand-written report was given to the
prosecution. It was apparently withheld from the defense attorneys
and certainly from the court. The parents didn't know it existed.
That report alone could have changed the outcome of the case.
13. Dr. Clapper spent around a half hour with the family before calling
an ambulance, which contradicts reports claiming he basically took
one look at Casey and sent her to the hospital. He and John did not
get along, because John was still distrustful after the earlier hospital
fiasco. Also, John was the experienced parent of two children and
was better able to understand what the doctor was saying and asking
questions about. The doctor didn't even know John had another child
and resented John being the one answering questions, which can be
clearly determined from the police reports. He also was told that
John was overheard making an accusation that must have enraged him—that
he was just doing it (sending her back to the hospital) for the money.
So, he targeted John by later telling investigators that in his experience,
MOTHERS don't hurt their babies, which is not supported by statistics
or even common sense. Criminal literature is filled with cases of
mothers who harmed or killed their children. Current statistics on
abusers put gender at near 50-50 with slightly more male offenders,
with a historical increase in male perpetrators probably due to more
males becoming caretakers in recent decades, with more working mothers.
Dr. Clapper did an oxygen saturation test on Casey that came back
normal. The fluid in the lungs and encephalitic cry alone were reasons
to have her hospitalized. However, Dr. Clapper told the parents he
was sending her to the hospital due to the "red eyes and skin
lesions" which he suggested might be "child abuse".
14. The parents wanted to go in the ambulance, but the EMT's told
them it wasn't allowed, contrary to accounts that attempted to make
it look like they didn't care enough to do so, although Melissa apparently
admitted being frightened of riding in an ambulance because they "go
fast" (the Medical Assistant's report). Either way, John had
to drive the car to the hospital.
15. John arrived at the hospital right behind the ambulance, dropped
Melissa off and went home to pack a bag for them to stay at the hospital
with Casey. He stayed to clean the apartment because he believed the
hotline nurses who had assured them that she only had a bad cold,
colic and cold sores and didn't need medical care.
16. Dr. Clapper initially marked everything as normal on his clinic
report, and then criminally altered the medical form after the fact,
listing symptoms that didn't exist or were found much later at the
hospital—not by him.
17. Dr. Clapper called the police to meet the ambulance, but only
to make certain the parents didn't interfere with her admission to
the hospital, not because there were any actual signs of abuse. He
admitted this in a report submitted by the defense counsel's investigator,
and also that the parents caused no problems. If he had called in
a case of suspected abuse to the police, they would have stayed at
the hospital or immediately called in investigators on the case.
18. The appointment was at 10:15, but the family went an hour early
and spent that time with the medical assistant. The ambulance was
called at 10:45 AM, according to the nursing notes. Law enforcement
wasn't called to investigate “abuse” until around 3:30
PM. That was Deputy Shaffer and another one. They called in Detectives
Hefty (lead) and Hall, who arrived around 4:30 PM.
19. By that time, doctors had inflicted finger imprints on Casey's
forehead from handling her. These were blamed on the parents, but
were so slight that when Det. Hefty examined Casey some time after
he arrived at 4:30 PM he didn't even see them, only the four skin
lesions, as he admitted under oath at the 3.5 hearing.
20. Around 4:30, Forensic Officer Johnson took ten 35mm photos of
Casey. His report lists fingermark bruising on her forehead that weren't
there when she was picked up at the pediatric clinic, he mentions
that a nose tube will be inserted by ICU Dr. Martha McCravey after
he finishes, and he falsely describes four distinct sores as a “severe
cut or laceration” on her chin. He also mentions a “torn
frenum” which is the tiny piece of skin between lip and gums.
Frenum lesions are described in Barlow's disease, which produces defective
collagen and affects connective tissues. The slight finger marks on
her forehead show where someone at the hospital had gripped Baby Casey's
head probably to hold her still to insert a feeding tube or some other
procedure.
21. The parents were interrogated separately and gave the same information.
John was only asked about the skin sores, which were later “interpreted”
as burns of some kind, up until the x-rays were seen. Melissa was
additionally asked about a bruise on the cheek later in the day, but
thought they were talking about the red spot on the cheek, and mentioned
the grandmother's scarf pin as the probable cause. She wasn't allowed
to see Casey and didn't realize they were talking about a large diffuse
bruise that developed after the first set of photos were taken. The
bruise was on the cheek opposite the one with the red spot. Any objective
person looking at the photos with the cheek bruise right next to a
very red ear could have figured out it was caused by a medical person
holding Casey's head sideways on a bed or table, probably while she
was being examined.
22. X-rays were brought out around midnight and shown to the parents
and detectives at the same time. Callus formation on ribs and clavicles
were described as “healing fractures”. Barlow's disease
can cause fractures spontaneously, from normal handling, but it also
causes a condition known as subperiosteal hemorrhages where bleeding
from the skin covering on the bones calcifies and looks identical
to “healing fractures in different stages” on x-rays.
The only way to tell the difference is by microscopic examination
of the callus material, which of course they didn't do.
23. Full body x-rays were taken after the chest findings. They were
negative for head injuries.
24. Melissa was arrested shortly after the midnight viewing of the
x-rays on a prior warrant and never spoke to the police again on advice
from her attorney, according to the police reports. She knew nothing
about head injuries at that time because they hadn't occurred yet,
and yet the police reports indicated that she was interrogated by
them about head injuries on the day of admission.
25. The next day they did a CT scan and found a small depressed skull
fracture which caused the bone plate to overlap, two tiny subdural
hematomas (inconsistent with blunt force trauma), and 12 pinpoint
hemorrhages. ICU Dr. McCravey said the fractures and bleeding were
“only hours old” which means it happened in the hospital,
not while the parents had her. As previously mentioned, in rickets
medical literature, bone abnormalities begin in the skull with thinning
on the sides and back of the head, so thin that finger pressure alone
can cause a depressed fracture. Barlow's disease is characterized
by bleeding anywhere in the body. Subdural hemorrhage (SDH) is listed
as a symptom in current online medical sites for infantile scurvy.
Retinal hemorrhages (a primary symptom used to falsely diagnose SBS),
which usually goes hand-in-hand with SDH and other bleeding inside
the head can occur spontaneously. Abnormal bruising also.
26. Contrary to falsified police reports, John didn't find out about
head “injuries” until he returned to the hospital the
next afternoon to see Casey (but wasn't allowed to do so). ICU Dr.
McCravey told him it was a “linear” fracture and withheld
the information that it was only hours old after Casey had been in
the hospital for two days. He didn't find out Casey had a depressed
skull fracture with an overlapping bone plate until recently, when
the police reports were read to him over the phone.
27. The ICU doctor, who knew the head injuries occurred in the hospital,
claimed (according to the police reports) it required a force equal
to “a fall from a 2-story building or unrestrained head impact
in a vehicle accident” which is straight out of SBS literature
and completely false. All of the triad of symptoms supposedly diagnostic
of SBS (Diffuse Axonal Injury-DAI, Subdural Hematoma-SDH, and Retinal
Hemorrhages-RH) are found in birth injuries, in medical conditions,
and in documented accidental short falls as little as a couple of
feet, according to medical and scientific literature. The doctor also
used completely unrelated stories of accidental falls which did not
produce these injuries, which had nothing to do with this case. In
fact, Det. Hefty admitted at the 3.5 hearing that he never even told
the doctors what the parents thought caused the injuries (the Baby
Heimlich, bumping into a wall, and John dropping the baby), but instead
used “hypothetical” examples when he spoke to the doctors.
He also lied on his report, falsely claiming John said he “tossed
the baby to within a foot of an 8' ceiling”. When I read that
to John, he said, “that's crazy”. The mothers of both
of his daughters saw him playing with the babies that way—sitting
down and bouncing his daughters in the flat of his hands to make them
laugh. My daughter showed him how to do it by pumping his arms up
and down, as more accurately described by Det. Hall when John talked
about it days after the initial interrogations. He volunteered the
information the next time he saw the detectives (a week later), after
learning about the skull fracture and bleeding, because he thought
that was the cause. He was never, at any time, told that the head
injuries were only hours old at the time they were found on the day
after Casey was admitted to the hospital. He wasn't even told she
had a depressed skull fracture, just a “linear” one.
28. Deputy Shaffer, and Dets. Hefty and Hall collaborated on falsified
reports, claiming they were told as soon as they arrived at the hospital
that Casey had suffered “massive injuries” and listed
symptoms that weren't even found on that day. Most of the content
of their reports was falsified, including making it appear as though
they had questioned both parents about the head injuries on the day
Casey was admitted to the hospital, which they did not.
29. Det. Hefty withheld a CPS report that seems to have disappeared.
A caseworker spoke to both parents separately, who both assumed they
caused the head injuries—John from having dropped Casey, and
Melissa for having bumped into a wall or doorjamb while carrying her
the night before the pediatric appointment, according to what she
told the caseworker. Neither parent had told the other about these
incidents. They both volunteered this information to CPS. On Dec.
26th, 2000, the detectives spoke to John at his apartment. He voluntarily
told them about dropping Casey then for the first time. The detectives
took information from the CPS report and used it as though they had
gotten it themselves. Hefty had just gotten the report. He didn't
even tell his partner about it, according to Det. Hall's report. Det.
Hefty took the laundry basket and turned everything in to a forensic
lab. The report probably would have found DNA on the rim of the basket
to support John's account, but it never surfaced either. There are
two other missing lab reports. When Casey was able to cough up mucus
after the final Baby Heimlich treatment the night she got sick, John
suctioned her mouth and emptied it onto a baby blanket or something
similar, and he did the same thing when he suctioned bloody saliva
out of her mouth which he thought was from teething. Lab reports may
have provided evidence that she had a lung infection as he described,
and they would have seen there was very little blood in her saliva
to offset the doctor's claim (sight unseen) that she was bleeding
from a "contusion" (bruise) of the lung caused by "assumed"
blunt force trauma to the ribs.
30. A “hospital expert” diagnosed Casey with “Shaken
Baby Syndrome” based partly on Dr. Clapper's false report of
“fundal hemorrhages” (retinal hemorrhages) that never
existed, as verified by an ophthalmologist at the hospital.
31. Casey developed more bruising over time in the hospital, all blamed
on the parents. Legal documents claim she was admitted to the hospital
with bruises all over her body.
32. Doctors put her on morphine for two weeks—counter-indicated
in head injury cases. It also masked symptoms that could have been
diagnostic of metabolic disease, particularly the pain in her legs
that caused her to hold them in a frog-leg posture, that made her
cry every time she was handled and to not want to be held, even later
in foster care. The foster mother said Casey was so fussy when being
held that they left her on a blanket on the floor, and she was observed
holding her legs oddly during a visit with Casey and the foster family
by her step-grandfather and the grandparents of her half-sister Sierra.
33. Casey developed swallowing difficulties in the hospital—a
symptom listed in Barlow's medical literature. They did a surgical
procedure on her that nearly killed her just to look at her esophagus
for “burns” and to biopsy her stomach. She stopped breathing
and had to be bagged and ventilated. There were no findings. Medical
literature (Anesthesiology—a textbook excerpt sent to me by
a doctor in England) instructs doctors not to put anything down the
throat of an infant with a respiratory condition because it can stop
their breathing. She was not tested or treated for any kind of infection
in the lungs, or any kind of metabolic disease. There is no evidence
from the pediatric records or DSHS financial records that she was
given any kind of medical treatment whatsoever, other than an oxygen
tube which wasn't needed at the time she was admitted to the hospital.
34. Tiny white lesions were found on the roof of the mouth, larynx
and pharynx some time after the first forensic photos were taken and
“interpreted” as burns. These specific signs are diagnostic
of Barlow's disease. When more white lesions appeared in Casey's mouth
while she was in foster care, they were diagnosed as “oral thrush”
--a medical condition associated with immune deficiency, which is
a common and expected side effect of antibiotic treatment.
35. When the x-rays were taken, there was callus formation on 10 ribs
and two clavicles and nothing else. When another set was taken 10
days later in the hospital, there was callus formation on 10 new ribs
where there had been no fracture lines or bone displacement before,
indicating that either doctors broke more ribs or they were looking
at calcifying subperiosteal hemorrhages in an on-going bleeding disorder.
Studies have shown that a single rib broken by traumatic force has
an 85% chance of causing “serious thoracic injury”. None
was found when over 20 bones were considered to have been broken by
“traumatic force”. Statistically, this is a near impossibility.
Nor was there ever a single bruise or mark on her torso, before or
after she was admitted to the hospital.
36. After Casey left the hospital, she continued to have respiratory
infections, then diagnosed as “viral infections”. She
developed eczema, a symptom found in Barlow's disease, although it
probably has other causes. I also observed that her skin around her
was perfect. No “burn” scars. She seemed perfectly normal
at the time except for the way she held her legs. She was alert and
interested in what we were doing (taking pictures). I held her and
played with her during most of the hour visit. But for the 21/2 years
her pediatric records continued, she was bombarded with vaccinations
and continued to develop new “encephalitic” areas seen
in the brain,.all attributed to former abuse. There were continued
reports of “colic” which was most likely more episodes
of “cri encéphalique” from vaccine-induced brain
swelling and the terrible pain it causes. Also, after meeting developmental
markers early on, she appears to have lost language skills and developed
separation anxiety. She was taken from her parents, put in foster
care for about 18 months, and then handed over to adoptive parents,
all of which are reasons for extreme emotional trauma.
37. The doctors in this case violated emergency pediatric guidelines
that instruct them to do DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS to eliminate medical
causes before making an assumption of abuse. A ruling of child abuse
is a legal determination meant to be made by cooperating authorities
because clinical symptoms don't normally determine whether injuries
are accidental or inflicted, and that is without even considering
medical causes of the same symptoms. Any other flagrant violation
of conventional medical protocol would likely result in a doctor's
license being revoked and possible arrest.
38. ICU Dr. McCravey falsified a medical report of the case. (Details
later.)
39. Pediatrician Dr. Clapper falsified a discharge summary of the
case. (Details later.)
40. Dets. Hefty and Hall gave perjured testimony at the 3.5 hearing,
but also made admissions favorable to the defendants that were ignored
or overlooked. (Details later.)
41. The PSI (Pre Sentence Investigation) reports and all of the court
documents were based on assumptions, falsified reports and missing
documents, and as such were “fruit from the poisoned tree.”
42. The prosecution submitted a last minute altered motion to include
an amended charge of assault by “recklessness” (accidental
injury), essentially turning the defense's case against them without
giving them time to prepare a defense claiming the parent's actions
were accidental, but fell short of the legal definition of “reckless”.
(This is an assumption of what their legal strategy would have been
if they had time to prepare it.)
43. The court erred in not giving copies of the motions to the defense
attorneys until just a couple of hours before a jury was to be seated.
It was the only charge the prosecutor had a chance of proving based
on statements made by the defendants themselves. The defense attorneys
argued against it being allowed at the last minute, but failed to
cite the exception to Collins involving a legal prejudice to the case.
The prosecutor didn't want to go to trial without it and the defense
didn't want to go to trial with it, in spite of it being favorable
to their clients, so the parents were threatened with 40 years in
prison if they went to trial and emotionally coerced into taking Newman
plea bargains.
44. Melissa was given a plea bargain on condition that she testify
against John, which she agreed to do, but had nothing more to offer.
She knew no one intentionally hurt the baby. She tried to protect
her plea bargain agreement by offering “evidence” against
John on another unrelated charge against her which was not even a
criminal act, in contradiction to the prosecution's portrayal of her
as being intimidated, manipulated by John, or “loyal”
to the man she loved to the point of withholding evidence. She told
the truth, but the prosecution didn't believe her or John. The detectives
never interviewed anyone in the family other than a brief conversation
with her mother, which was hateful and incriminating towards Melissa.
They didn't even speak to the mother of John's first-born child, who
would have testified (in spite of her bitterness and pain over their
breakup) that John was a loving and doting father who would never
harm a child intentionally.
45. I spoke to Melissa in jail after she was arrested. She told me
personally, “IF John hurt my baby, I'll KILL HIM. She never
witnessed any kind of abuse or she wouldn't have made a statement
like that, and according to John, he never saw anything that would
make him suspect Melissa. He remains very protective of her. He believes
she did the best she could with Casey, considering that she had no
experience with babies.
46. When Melissa was arrested on a prior warrant during this investigation,
jail authorities determined her to be “unfit for trial”
due to her lack of understanding between right and wrong. According
to the court file on that other case, Melissa should have been formally
evaluated. That means she should not have been charged in this case,
which was expected to go to trial until just hours before a jury was
due to be seated. The investigating authorities either didn't bother
to look in her other file, or withheld that information from the court.
47. John's attorney told him if he signed the Newman plea that Melissa
would get a short sentence, that relatives were getting Casey and
Melissa could get her back when she got out of prison and that he
“would have a family to come home to”. It is unknown whether
the attorney withheld the facts or simply didn't bother to find out
that Casey was going to be adopted out to strangers, that both parental
rights had been terminated and they wouldn't be allowed to have contact
with Casey as a standard part of the court orders following conviction.
John agreed to take the plea on that basis, to protect Melissa and
Casey.
48. After the pleas were accepted by the court, John changed his mind
and asked that the plea be withdrawn and to go to trial. His attorney
filed the motion for the withdrawal and a hearing on the plea was
scheduled for the same day Melissa was to be sentenced. Instead of
waiting for the court ruling, John's attorney privately told him it
“wasn't allowed” and apparently withdrew the motion without
telling John it was supposed to be formally ruled on by the Judge.
49. John (and probably Melissa) was never explicitly warned by the
court of the possibility of an “exceptional sentence”
and was blind sided by the sentence. He was so emotionally distraught
in court he couldn't even speak. He still didn't know the timeline
of injuries never matched the events he thought caused them because
the doctors and investigators withheld this information from everyone,
including the court, and the probability of medical causes of the
symptoms never came up. A specialist on bone disease was supposed
to have been scheduled to examine Casey, but the appointment was apparently
cancelled or never made. John signed the plea bargain agreement for
147 months (he had been threatened with certain conviction based on
symptoms alone and 40 years in prison if he went to trial). Melissa
signed one for a 4-year sentence. Instead of honoring the agreement
made between the prosecutor and defense attorneys, the judge added
4 more years to each sentence, an "exceptional" sentence
based on unproven facts, assumptions, false information and withheld
evidence. John was given a 200 month sentence (16.6 years) and Melissa
was given 8 years instead of 4. John has now been in prison over 9
years. Melissa was released in 2008.
50. The exceptional sentence violated Apprendi, which became case
law in 2000 prior to the arrests. It required a confession or facts
proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury before a sentence over
the statutory maximum is allowed. That did not mean the maximum sentence
allowed on the charges, only on the charge or charges that could have
been proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a jury, and certainly not
by the lower standard the Judge used (a preponderance of evidence).
With the information the prosecutor had, the only charge that could
have been proven at trial was “recklessness”, but only
as long as the jury didn't find out the life-threatening injuries
happened after Casey was admitted to the hospital. The rest of it
would have come out at trial.