Siobhan
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I call BS on his story. It doesn't make sense when you look at all the details. And mom didn't think anything strange was going on-doesn't call police or attempt to find them?
*Step-dad was 'unconscious' the side of the road with his toddler son for 20+ hours before waking?
*The toddler just stayed there with him that entire time?
*Did he have a bruise/injury to his head? If he was hit hard enough to be knocked out for that long, he would.
If he was knocked out and unconscious for 20 hours, it would be a physical impossibility for him to remember details immediately before being knocked out.
The memory area of the brain is like older word processing software, it takes some time to "save" the experiences to one's permanent memory banks - if something like a brain/head injury strong enough to cause unconsciousness occurs, it would be like turning off the old type WP programs without saving your "data" - the data in this case means the memories just before the head injury occurred.
I've had 4 head concussions, and was old enough after the last one to remember the ride to the hospital, my family not letting me fall sleep during the ride there, and the nurses once I arrived, but I have no memory of anything from the morning that day or night before, after falling out of a high tree limb and landing head first on a picnic table at the beach.
Your BS is the proper call on this case.
ETA: This case was made by the prosecutors of Paula Sims, with help from the testimony of a neurologist.
Sims had claimed that on two separate instances, years apart, where "masked men" had entered her home, knocked her unconscious, and each time had taken her newborn baby girl (2 different baby girls!), and that she was awakened from her unconscious state on the floor by her husband when he returned home from work each time.
The neurologist testified to this being medically impossible for her to remember if she had truly sustained a head injury serous enough to cause complete unconsciousness, in the way Sims' claimed what had happened.
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