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I just got off the phone with the doctor.

Your son right now is still up there under the care of the doctors, but he's currently showing no signs of brain activity.

While he's still, the machines are still helping him breathe and everything else by definition is still alive, but his brain at this point is not working.

And the injuries that they're telling us is the injuries to the brain are consistent with repeated basic blows to the head.

along with rib fractures over a course of an extended period of time.

Anything that comes to mind that explains these rib fractures?

Where some of these things could be coming from?

Can I call my dad, please?

Can I call my dad?

I don't want to talk with him over the phone.

I don't want to talk with him over the phone.

We still need to talk to John again.

We talked to him initially, but we still need to talk to him again.

A few minutes later, John, who is also there for a follow up interview, comes back into the room.

Did they tell you anything?

What happened?