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6. Other sources...

Wed May 29, 2013, 07:53 AM

May 2013

Other sources seem to connect this child's injuries to Osteogenesis Imperfecta. For those who may not be aware of it, OI-related injuries are frequently misidentified as child abuse when they are nothing of the sort. I'm more familiar with OI than I ever wanted to be, I was was born with it - one of my children and now my grandson also inherited it.

http://www.academia.edu/1498000/Osteogenesis_imperfecta_in_the_archaeological_record_An_example_from_the_Dakhleh_Oasis_Egypt]

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2013/palaeopathology-two-recent-case-studies]

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Earliest Case of Child Abuse Discovered [View all] undergroundpanther May 2013 OP

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Other sources... llamalady May 2013 #6

O I might be the reason undergroundpanther May 2013 #7