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X-rays for 'foreign bodies' approved
By BRADY DENNIS, Times Staff Writer DADE CITY -- A judge on Monday granted a motion to allow doctors to take X-rays of what defense attorneys claim are "foreign bodies" lodged under the skin of Kristina Gaime. The case involving the 38-year-old Land O'Lakes woman is one of the highest-profile cases in Pasco County. Gaime is accused of drugging her two sons -- Mathew Rotell, 6, and Adam Rotell, then 8 -- at their townhouse in April 1999, then loading them into the family minivan. Authorities say she directed the van's exhaust into the van, then got inside with them in an apparent murder-suicide attempt. Mathew died, but his brother survived and now lives with his father. Investigators found Gaime inside the home. Her father told authorities she was barely coherent. She had suffered a head injury and what appeared to be deep burns or bruises to her left ankle and buttocks. "The defendant has reason to believe that there may be certain foreign bodies in the areas where she was mysteriously injured," Gaime's attorney, Bob Nutter, stated in the original motion, filed in May. "X-rays of the areas, where she was injured, may reveal information which would be useful to the defendant in her defense." Nutter said that one doctor who examined Gaime's injuries likened them to bedsores and said they could have been caused by passing out at an awkward angle against a hard surface in the van. Judge Stanley Mills on Monday granted Nutter's motion for the X-rays.
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