[Shaun]

Stories like this make me wonder how anyone can stomach having to conduct post-mortems and forensic analysis in such cases. I cannot imagine anything more soul-destroying and heartbreaking.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Stories like this make me wonder how anyone can stomach having to conduct post-mortems and forensic analysis in such cases. I cannot imagine anything more soul-destroying and heartbreaking.

..yeah that has to be the worst thing, it's heart-breaking enough when you know some of what Welfare and Social workers have to know and listen to every working day ...



...it's really so hard to even comprehend how she would start a relationship with a sex offender before her baby was born, let alone what they did...

[lily.]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Stories like this make me wonder how anyone can stomach having to conduct post-mortems and forensic analysis in such cases. I cannot imagine anything more soul-destroying and heartbreaking.

Oh god... I never thought about that...

I've always thought that it must be horrific for the jury to see photographic evidence. But, being a detective or medical examiner must be even more awful.

I suppose if you do a job like that you would have to develop a way to shut off from the emotion of it.