Dr. Thomas Rudd

I saw a membrane and I thought, my God.

You see a scab similar to what forms on your skin, except it's in the brain.

Correct. By definition, if you have a membrane, you have an old injury.

The added fluid of the recent injury pushes that brain down and shuts down the breathing system. That is the cause of the child's death. It was the old injury. The old injury was massive.

What should have been done was that whole section should have been cut out to look under the microscope to see if, in fact, it is a skull fracture. And they didn't.

I was dumbfounded. There's definitely no skull fracture here. I've shown this to various pathologists and a radiologist. They've all called me and say, there is no skull fracture in this child at all.

It wasn't there on the x-ray, so I don't think that he could have actually seen it.