Moronic investigation?
On March, an eight year old boy here in Puerto Rico died in mysterious circumstances. His little sister woke up because something was dripping on her and she went to her mom, woke her up, and told the mother her brother was getting her wet. The mother noticed there was blood on the little girl, went to her children's room, saw her son was bleeding, and took him to an ER where the son died. To questions of the doctors, the mother said her son had fallen from the bed, an assumption she made parting from a common occurrence. Now, the doctors said that the boy had been hit with a pointy object on his head and thus, it couldn't have been a fall. Ever since that, the death has been considered a murder and they are investigating the scene, the people who were at the boy's house that day, etc.
I don't know what exactly these doctors mean with the boy being hit with a pointy object and no chance of boy having fallen and gone back to bed, but as a mother who experienced an accident in which my youngest fell from the top of my oldest daughter's bed and (guess what?) hit side of her head close to one eye with a POINTY metal part from bed frame (bed is shaped like the Cinderella carriage: www.roomstogokids.com/index.cfm), I can say that these things CAN happen. In fact, Ai came crying to me covered in blood and I had to get into the shower with her to clean the excess blood to then go to the ER in which I explained what happened with no problems whatsoever and they didn't send social services after me or anything. Ha ha ha!
Now, Ai's case was in broad daylight. When I fell from my bed as a child, as drowsy as I was, I would go back to bed unless I felt I had hit myself very hard and was in pain. Now, the times I've opened a wound, I have not felt the open wound in most cases till someone has told me. It is possible, in my opinion, for a very sleepy child to open a wound and not be too aware to notice and just go back to bed. I haven't been aware in broad daylight. On a hiking trip, I didn't notice my knee had a gash and was bleeding profusely till some friends told me!!! (One lesson learned that day: Don't wear skirts if you go hiking.) Not noticing a gash from a fall from bed after possibly head hitting on a pointy surface and going back to bed does not sound impossible to me in that sense.
Anyway, the investigation for the mysterious murderer keeps going on with people wondering if the mother of the boy is a drug user, if she murdered her own son, if someone mysteriously entered the house during the night and killed the boy, etc. To me, the investigation might be moronic and ridiculous. I truly think it could have been an accident. The boy didn't die from the cut, he died from blood loss. Even my daughter would have died from blood loss if I hadn't taken her to hospital. In this case, this happens during the night and if the little sister woke up from feeling blood falling on her, the boy must have been bleeding for quite a while.
I could be wrong and there could be some remote possibility of this being a murder, but I don't see any sense in someone coming into the house to hit a boy on his head and then leave silently during the night. In that sense, things would point to the mother, but it's still weird. In my head, I keep thinking it might have been an accident and that they should check for pointy areas around bed frame or very close to bed in the bedroom.
I don't know what exactly these doctors mean with the boy being hit with a pointy object and no chance of boy having fallen and gone back to bed, but as a mother who experienced an accident in which my youngest fell from the top of my oldest daughter's bed and (guess what?) hit side of her head close to one eye with a POINTY metal part from bed frame (bed is shaped like the Cinderella carriage: www.roomstogokids.com/index.cfm), I can say that these things CAN happen. In fact, Ai came crying to me covered in blood and I had to get into the shower with her to clean the excess blood to then go to the ER in which I explained what happened with no problems whatsoever and they didn't send social services after me or anything. Ha ha ha!
Now, Ai's case was in broad daylight. When I fell from my bed as a child, as drowsy as I was, I would go back to bed unless I felt I had hit myself very hard and was in pain. Now, the times I've opened a wound, I have not felt the open wound in most cases till someone has told me. It is possible, in my opinion, for a very sleepy child to open a wound and not be too aware to notice and just go back to bed. I haven't been aware in broad daylight. On a hiking trip, I didn't notice my knee had a gash and was bleeding profusely till some friends told me!!! (One lesson learned that day: Don't wear skirts if you go hiking.) Not noticing a gash from a fall from bed after possibly head hitting on a pointy surface and going back to bed does not sound impossible to me in that sense.
Anyway, the investigation for the mysterious murderer keeps going on with people wondering if the mother of the boy is a drug user, if she murdered her own son, if someone mysteriously entered the house during the night and killed the boy, etc. To me, the investigation might be moronic and ridiculous. I truly think it could have been an accident. The boy didn't die from the cut, he died from blood loss. Even my daughter would have died from blood loss if I hadn't taken her to hospital. In this case, this happens during the night and if the little sister woke up from feeling blood falling on her, the boy must have been bleeding for quite a while.
I could be wrong and there could be some remote possibility of this being a murder, but I don't see any sense in someone coming into the house to hit a boy on his head and then leave silently during the night. In that sense, things would point to the mother, but it's still weird. In my head, I keep thinking it might have been an accident and that they should check for pointy areas around bed frame or very close to bed in the bedroom.