Andrea Dunlop

During this time, both also report vomiting, which in addition to the seizure is a possible sign of abusive head trauma.

Danica describes Nolan falling asleep in the car shortly after John came to pick her up on Friday evening, but does say that he seemed more or less okay when she gave him a bath that night.

Dr. Sally Smith recalls what she observed in her evaluation of Nolan on Sunday, December 13th.

What is that, the pupils being reactive versus non-reactive?

Like, what does that indicate specifically?

Yeah.

Doctors at both Manatee Memorial and Johns Hopkins All Children's had seen and evaluated Nolan's injuries prior to Dr. Sally Smith's involvement.

After reviewing their notes, the history given at the first hospital, and Nolan's imaging, Smith evaluated him for the suspected diagnosis of abusive head trauma.

And with this case in particular, did they have both of those two, there was both of these hemorrhages that you're speaking about?

Oh, yes.

Yeah.

Yes.

Yeah.

And I believe that's in your report and is also in the medical examiner's report.

Correct.

In addition to the injuries to Nolan's head and neck, both doctors also noted the presence of old and new rib fractures.

Here's medical examiner Dr. Russell Vega.

We wanted to take a moment to zero in on the rib fractures that were observed in Nolan, which are common in these types of cases and a sign of ongoing abuse.

Here's Matthew Torbenson, an assistant district attorney who has worked on dozens of abuse cases, talking about the significance of injuries like this.

I think one of the most curious pieces of this, of the Nolan Kelly case, you know, is that we had these – there were the acute injuries that happened sometime in this time period, you know, before he went to the hospital.