Prof. R. Kėvalas about the dead baby: it was a trauma incompatible with life

The story of a father throwing his five-month-old baby out the window shocked the whole of Lithuania.

Read more about it here: The death of the baby thrown out of the window by the father: did the specialists who looked after the family do everything?

Severe brain injury

Head of Kaunas Clinics Children’s Clinic, prof. Speaking to journalists on Thursday, Rimantas Kėvalas also found it difficult to find words.

When asked what he saw when the baby was transported from Klaipėda to Kaunas clinics, he answered: “We saw a severe brain injury that was practically incompatible with life.”

According to R. Kėvalos, there were no more injuries.

“And what was before, it’s really hard for me to say. As far as I know, they didn’t let the social workers in for about one month,” said the professor.

He confirmed that Klaipėda doctors consulted with him and other Kaunas clinic specialists from the very beginning, when the child was brought to the hospital.

And what was before, it’s really hard for me to say. As far as I know, they didn’t let the social workers in for about a month.

“I personally spoke with them and with the head of children’s reanimation on Saturday, the same day. We discussed what needs to be done to make the condition a little more stable for the child to reach our institution, which was done on Sunday.

The child was in a completely critical condition, in practice it was only necessary to ensure the functioning of the vital organs – breathing and the work of the heart,” said the Kaunas clinic doctor.

He did not want to be compared with Matuk and others

The professor did not want to compare this tragedy with any previous story of a baby that ended painfully: “These are basically incomparable things. The death of any child, no matter what the cause, is very painful, and such cases, I dare say, are incomprehensible to common sense.”

When reminded of the so-called story of Matuk, R. Kėvalas said that he did not dare to compare cases: “Each case is unique. Such cases are isolated. They occur in both Europe and America in approximately 15-20 cases per hundred thousand births.

Bearing in mind that about 25-30 thousand are born in Lithuania every year. newborns, so theoretically there should be five to ten such cases. There are significantly fewer of them, which, dare I say, can be celebrated. But they certainly exist and sometimes do happen.”

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The baby’s mother was with him in the hospital in Klaipėda from the beginning, the doctors of the port city have mentioned that her explanations of how and what happened were vague.

R. Kėvalas also confirmed that “mother was there all the time”.

“I can’t say about Klaipėda, but in Kaunas she was hospitalized together with the child and with the child.

My mother asked for some help and it was given to her,” said R. Kėvalas.

The suspect threw his child out the window the man’s mother said in the 15-minute interview that she heard from the baby’s motherthat when she ran from the kitchen, she found the baby thrown on the floor, and later, after hearing that the officers had arrived, the man who behaved inappropriately grabbed the child and threw him out the window.