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From the Toronto Star, I'm Kevin Donovan, and this is Death in a Small Town.

Episode 2. Suspicion.

The human skull is made up of 22 bones, 8 cranial and 14 facial.

Think of our skulls as a container that protects and holds a brain,

easily the most important part of our body as it controls everything we do.

How we talk, learn, walk, breathe, eat,

everything. The skull is a strong container, but it can only take so much. So clearly, you know,

and then became quite sick.

We knew right off the bag, and especially the story that we were given to us.

A story often third hand, ain't nobody, because when you hear a story in that scenario,

getting information is probably not the most important thing at that time.

The most important thing is to do your best you can, try to stabilize,

try to resuscitate, try to manage. The recording here isn't great, but what the doctor is saying

is that Nathaniel came to them quite sick. How it happened, that was not their initial focus.

Keeping the 15-month-old live was. In our first episode, you heard how Nathaniel's babysitter, Megan

Van Hoof, called Roseanne, Nathaniel's mom, and told her the 15-month-old boy was unwell.

Roseanne rushed to get Nathaniel, took him to the local hospital in Strathroy. His condition critical,

doctors there quickly transferred him down the road to the much

better equipped London Hospital.

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