By Chuck Hustmyre
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At five o'clock the next morning, Saturday, Feb. 25, while 10-week-old Jason was fighting for his life in Denver, Louisville police officers searched the home of Alex and Molly Midyette. They were looking for anything that might indicate Jason had been the victim of child abuse. Some of what they found surprised them. In addition to photographs of Jason, medications, medical records, and baby books, the officers seized eight blown-glass marijuana pipes and an ashtray containing marijuana.
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| Denver Children's Hospital (Hospital web site) |
A radiologist at Children's Hospital who did an extensive X-ray examination of Jason found 20 broken bones. The radiologist added a comment to his report that read, "Multiple fractures in various stages of healing, highly suspicious for non-accidental trauma."
Over the next few days, Louisville police served four more search warrants for doctor's office and hospital records, for computer files, and for cell phone records.
Through their attorney, Alex and Molly Midyette continued to refuse to talk to police about what had happened to their son. Their attorney floated a theory that Jason suffered from a condition known as osteogenesis imperfecta, more commonly known as "brittle bone disease," a genetic disorder that makes bones extremely fragile. The suggestion was that Jason's bones were so weak that they had perhaps snapped under their own weight or been broken through the regular course of parents holding and caring for an infant.
On March 1, doctors at Children's Hospital removed Jason from life support.
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