PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Holt asked Leah Mullinix why wasn't she was more upset about what was happening with Dante. “I tried to bottle it up,” she said. Later that night, Leah Mullinix told Bowie via Messenger: “It was an accident. You are not to blame.”
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PASSAGE TWO OF THE DAY: "Autopsy results found Dante died from traumatic head injury coupled with strangulation and suffocation. The defense argued that Dante stopped breathing after a cookie lodged in his airway and Bowie tried to revive the boy. A defense medical expert supported that version with an opinion that Dante died accidentally due to brain swelling brought on by lack of oxygen and choking. Investigators in the case said they had found fresh injuries on the boy that weren’t there when he was treated for a genital infection a few days earlier and medical personnel noted bruising. Dante was flown to Hershey Medical Center Sept. 6 and he died there about nine days later."
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STORY: "I didn't know what to do," 2-year-old Dante Mullinix's mother testifies, by Reporter Anthony Maenza, published by The York Dispatch, on December 20, 2022.
GIST: The defense attorney for Tyree Bowie continued to question Dante Mullinix’s mother about a Facebook Messenger conversation she had with Bowie the night her 2-year-old son lost consciousness.
On Sept. 6, 2018, Leah Mullinix went to the hospital for treatment for a migraine headache, and Dante Mullinix was in the care of Bowie. During a conversation, Bowie said that Dante jumped out of his seat and scraped his chin and made a video at the time showing the boy's injury.
“Other than the scrape across his chin, I didn’t really see anything else,” Leah Mullinix said, under cross-examination by Bowie's attorney, Farley Holt, on Tuesday.
An hour after that, in another video chat, Bowie said that Dante had stopped breathing.
Holt asked Leah Mullinix if Bowie had told her if he was trying the cookies out of this throat and giving CPR.
“I heard about it later that Tyree was giving him CPR,” Leah Mullinix said.
Mullinix’s statement seemed to contradict what she had told police that night, which Holt pointed out. Holt said that she told police that Bowie had tried to get the cookies out of Dante’s mouth and was doing CPR.
Going back to the Facebook Messenger conversation, Leah Mullinix said that she would get one of the doctors and meet them outside.
Holt showed hospital video where Leah Mullinix emerged from a hospital restroom where she was having the messenger conversation with Bowie.
The video showed Leah Mullinix walking through the emergency waiting room past a nurse’s triage station and a security guard as she went outside.
Holt asked where, during the video, she approached any medical personnel to tell them someone unresponsive was coming to the emergency room.
Holt said the Leah Mullinix was outside for four minutes waiting for Bowie to bring Dante to the hospital without alerting any hospital personnel.
“I was panicked,” Leah Mullinix said. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Holt also said that Bowie was the one that carried the unresponsive boy into the emergency room and not his mother.
“You were behind Mr. Bowie when he rushed the child in,” Holt stated.
Holt pointed to additional messages exchanged between Leah Mullinix and Bowie.
“He has a heartbeat,” Leah Mullinix said, during the conversation. “The one doctor went to go check.”
It was during that time Bowie said he had been trying to give Dante mouth-to-mouth resuscitation in an attempt to revive him.
“I’m so sorry,” Bowie said, during the conversation. “We were going to come and surprise you. He stopped breathing. I still hear him saying ‘I’m OK.’ I’ve never been through anything like this. I’m scared.”
Holt asked Leah Mullinix why wasn't she was more upset about what was happening with Dante.
“I tried to bottle it up,” she said.
Later that night, Leah Mullinix told Bowie via Messenger: “It was an accident. You are not to blame.”
Prosecutors allege Bowie, 43, severely beat and strangled Dante, causing him to stop breathing while the two were alone together for just over an hour and a half.
Autopsy results found Dante died from traumatic head injury coupled with strangulation and suffocation.
The defense argued that Dante stopped breathing after a cookie lodged in his airway and Bowie tried to revive the boy.
A defense medical expert supported that version with an opinion that Dante died accidentally due to brain swelling brought on by lack of oxygen and choking.
Investigators in the case said they had found fresh injuries on the boy that weren’t there when he was treated for a genital infection a few days earlier and medical personnel noted bruising.
Dante was flown to Hershey Medical Center Sept. 6 and he died there about nine days later.
The trial, which began Dec. 5, is expected to continue Wednesday.'
The entire story can be read at:
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resurce. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL:
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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