Mike Webber

Well, and it's very important to point out that doctors are not investigators.

Doctors function is to simply report the abuse.

There was Dr. Woods at Mary Bridge who reported the abuse.

There was another doctor who did medical record review, Dr. Carol Jenny, who literally wrote the book on this abuse.

But they don't determine guilt or innocence, either of them, of mom.

They determine whether there is evidence in the medical record that there could be abuse happening.

It is a responsibility of police and CPS to determine.

CPS's function is to determine whether the children are safe with the offender.

It is law enforcement's role to determine whether or not a crime has been committed.

And it is then the DA's office's role to prosecute that crime.

So you have a ton of systems that have to work together.

And it's very easy to single out, you know, I see this from these offenders quite often in this abuse is they will pick one person and make them the scapegoat.

And they will ride on them.

And if only not for this person, none of this would have happened.

It's very, very familiar to me.

In medical child abuse cases, when there is a port placed in the child, that now gives the offender access to the child's blood.

And that gives the offender the opportunity to put things in or take things out of the child's.

For instance, she could put feces in the child to cause a polymicrobial blood infection, multiple organisms in the blood, which would cause sepsis.

Or she can also take blood out of the child to cause anemia.

It opens up a variety of new ways to abuse the child.