This morning a doctor from the hospital visited by alleged victim of NYPD sodomy-by-police baton testified for the prosecution. Dr. Syed Ahmed said that contrary to the officers' testimony, it was "highly unlikely" that Michael Mineo's injuries were self-afflicted. Mineo went to Brookdale University Hospital on Oct. 15, 2008, immediately after the alleged attack inside the Prospect Park subway station. According to Dr. Ahmed, Mineo had elevated pulse and white blood cell count, which he said are "sure signs of a serious inflammatory response."
Although Ahmed conceded that the tear was "superficial," he testified that doctors saw bleeding and "a CT scan showed that one of Mineo's pelvic muscles was inflamed and swollen," the Post reports. John Patten, the lawyer for Officer Richard Kern, who is accused of sodomizing Mineo with the baton, has argued that Mineo caused the "superficial laceration to his rear end" by "digging, digging into his backside." But today, Dr. Ahmed said that was highly unlikely, because it would "cause intense pain, and you could not proceed."
Ahmed said he never examined Mineo but read from his medical records, which said, according to the Daily News, "The patient appeared to have sustained blunt trauma to the face and head and a superficial, non-penetrating anal-rectal injury requiring no surgery." Mineo checked himself out of Brookdale on October 19th, against medical advice, but returned four days later after symptoms worsened.
On his return visit, doctors "drained six ounces of pus from an abcess that had formed in the inflamed muscle after it became infected," Ahmed said. When one of the cops' lawyers suggested that the inflamed muscle was too far from the anus to be related to the tear, Dr. Ahmed reportedly laughed and said, "You don't have any idea about the human anatomy."
