Comment by tokai

2 years ago

Even if the kids hemorrhaging continued, it was brought to the ER initially with fractures in the right side of the skull.

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WarOnPrivacy  2 years ago

> it was brought to the ER initially with fractures in the right side of the skull.

Just to defuse this a bit. My #4 used to collect skull fractures. He'd slip away in a nanosecond and would be 50' above us two heartbeats later. We put him in a padded helmet for a year or so. It stayed on sometimes.

As an adult he can still disappear in an empty room.

raducu  2 years ago

I did not know this detail, I know the Danish state offered apologies, the charges were dropped and the child was returned to the parents.

  • tokai  2 years ago

    Yeah, nobody know the exact parts of the case. As its semi-secret (to protect the child and parents I guess). While the parents were cleared, this case is definitely not appropriate to this discussion as it was definitely not only hemorrhaging that started it. If a hospital gets a toddler with fractures on their skull, society should damn well figure out how it got them and stop it from happening again.

    • aidenn0  2 years ago

      As a toddler, my daughter fell out of her bed from a height of less than 18 inches and broke her collar-bone. It seems plausible to me that if she had landed on her head rather than her shoulder, she could have fractured her skull. I'm not sure that society needs to be in the business of preventing all falls from such a small height!

    • grog454  2 years ago

      > If a hospital gets a toddler with fractures on their skull, society should damn well figure out how it got them and stop it from happening again.

      What a leap (the kind the article is calling out by the way). Do you really think all causes for toddler skull fractures are a societal problem?

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