A Woman Shoved My Eight-Year-Old Daughter Down a Hotel Staircase—Then My Child Said the Mother We Buried Was Still Alive
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Chapter 6 - Rosie’s medical evaluation
The pediatric emergency department kept Rosie for observation.
She had:
Several bruises.
A mild scalp contusion.
No intracranial injury.
No broken bones.
No spinal trauma.
She had been lucky.
Again.
That word.
Children should not need luck around adults.
The physician asked:
“Was the push intentional?”
“Yes.”
“Did the adult know she was near stairs?”
“Yes.”
Rosie interrupted.
“She hated Mommy too.”
I looked at her.
“What?”
Rosie blinked.
“She said Mommy always thought she was better.”
That was new.
Delphine and Vivienne had known each other socially and professionally for years.
May you like
I had assumed they merely disliked each other.
Apparently the dislike had history.
