By  Seamus McGraw

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Details of baby's last days outline in now sealed affidavit

According to the police affidavit, as detailed in press reports after Jason's death, the baby had experience some growth problems — between his two-week and one-month checkup he had gained only half an ounce. But the real first sign that the baby might not be well came in late February. According to those reports, the couple contacted Dr. Jill Siegfried on Feb. 24, leaving her a telephone message saying that the baby "looked lethargic" and was "not himself."

Siegfried declined to be interviewed for this story. But according to reports published at the time, when Siegfried examined the boy he was "grunting and posturing" and the soft spot on the infant's skull was bulging. The infant was taken to Boulder Community Hospital's emergency room where a nurse, identified by the Rocky Mountain News as Elaine Rottinghouse, later described his condition as among the worst she had seen in 27 years in the ER.

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While there was no outside bruising, according to the autopsy report, there was a list of devastating injuries, all apparently the result of trauma: His skull was fractured and his brain was swollen, two femurs were broken, and in what would later become a singularly troubling discovery, his left forearm had been fractured, as had his collarbone. Both of those injuries were already healing, an indication that the trauma that sent Jason to the emergency room was not the first he had endured in his brief life. The infant was placed under the authority of the Boulder County Department of Social Services — it was the first time the child protective services agency had been called on to intervene with the family — and doctors struggled in vain to save boy. On March 3, after 10 days on life support, Jason Midyette died.

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