By Chuck Hustmyre
October 10, 2006
BOULDER, Colo. (Crime Library) — When 10-week-old Jason Midyette was carried into the emergency room at Boulder Community Hospital on Friday, February 24, he was pale and only semiconscious. Mostly unresponsive, his condition so upset veteran ER nurse Elaine Rottinghaus that she bolted to the telephone and called police.
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A Boulder County 911 operator answered the emergency call within seconds.
"Dispatch, this is Tony."
"This is Elaine (at) the emergency room, Boulder Community Hospital, Foothills Campus."
"Yes, ma'am."
"I need to have an officer respond ASAP."
"What's going on?"
"A two-month old...significant abuse," Rottinghaus said. Then she gave the emergency operator the address of the infant's parents' house in the nearby suburb of Louisville.
"So you're requesting a Louisville officer, then?" the operator asked.
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"I'm requesting somebody ASAP," Rottinghaus said. "Five minutes ago actually."
During an emergency room nursing career spanning 27 years, Rottinghaus had seen only two other children with signs of abuse as alarming as those of Jason Midyette.
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