Jon Buehler

A straight laceration is just like a cut on the surface of the skin.

A complex laceration is one that the skin is splitting in multiple different directions.

And the only way to bring the skin back together is to stitch it up.

And so she suffered from extensive scarring that would prevent her from growing hair in that area.

And that's a common problem in areas that grow hair that end up scarring down.

Yes, I did.

So there's a thing called coup and contra coup injuries that occur inside the brain.

I know this is probably getting a little deep into it, but when the brain is inside- It's not, we deal with it all the time in child abuse cases, coup contra coup.

Correct.

And so just because she doesn't have a skull fracture doesn't mean that her brain wasn't rattled around inside this fixed object called the skull.

And that can cause contusions on the brain, and that can cause disorientation.

It can cause confusion.

It can cause concussive effects.

Those are the kind of things that we see in the coup-contre-coup kind of injuries that she would have possibly

had happened to her as a result of the blows to the head.

Yes.

That may have happened to her, correct.

She was clearly not steady on her feet.

I mean, anybody that watches that video can see that.

From what I read, it appeared that they noted two to three complex lacerations, which would be consistent with two to three blows to the head.