In response to a Hawaiʻi Supreme Court decision, case files in one of Hawaiʻi’s most notorious child abuse cases were unsealed. They reveal how the state and experts ignored multiple warnings before Ariel Sellers died.

Ariel Sellers kept breaking bones — first one finger on each hand, then her clavicle and finally her leg.

Doctors and other experts were concerned. What could be causing the young girl’s spate of injuries in just four months? One doctor suggested that maybe Ariel was impervious to pain, and missed the neurological signals telling her that her bones were breaking.

The condition is extremely rare, affecting an estimated 1 in 25,000 people . But perhaps Ariel was that one.

Other experts opined that Ariel might suffer from a disease that made her bones brittle and suscepti

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