Dr. Randy Alexander

I'm glad that, you know, from your description anyway, it's like changing stories is one of the hallmarks of child abuse.

Now it's not

absolutely certain that it is, but it certainly raises a red flag because most people, if there is a true accident, there's only one story, you know, and they tell you what the story is.

And when you start hearing different versions and everything, it's like, what's going on here?

Need to, yeah, so what we would do then is we'd go and we'd probe that history a whole lot more.

And, you know, we would keep each of the histories that the paramedics or whoever the initial admitting to the hospital people might be.

We'd certainly look at their histories, but we would also go in and try to get a really detailed history of our own.

We wouldn't interrogate them in the sense of challenge them and have like a, I don't know, whatever the movies have, you know, a bright light on them or something like that.

That's not what we do.

But we went over and say, we're trying to understand what's going on here.

And, you know, try to get real detail, make sure there's no misunderstandings, you know, in the history.

Because sometimes when you ask people to do something twice, it's slightly different.

We're not looking for slightly different.

We want to hear, as you mentioned, if it's quite different, then what's that all about?

And then she heard a thud that her child fell on the floor.

How does she know the child fell?

I mean, she could say that she heard a noise and the child was on the floor, but how would you know that's a fall?

And so you'd be trying to flesh this out and get a much better picture of what's going on.

And then you go back to say, could that mechanism account for the injury?

And you see, now you said there was a two-year-old that picked up a small child?