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NORTH TEXAS — Two strikingly similar cases involving decades-old claims of shaken baby syndrome are making news this week. In one, a Dallas County man, Andrew Roark, has been exonerated.
Nick Flannery faces 12 years in prison for allegedly shaking his 2-month-old son. Child protective services are ignoring the other possible causes of his son's medical problem.
Shaken Baby Syndrome, also called as Shaken Impact Syndrome, is a severe form of child abuse. It occurs when parents or caregivers shake a baby. [ 51 ] There is a strong association between crying and SBS, where studies indicate 1-6% of parents have shaken their babies to stop crying.
Throughout the following years, the case of Roberson began to garner attention due to the fact that a key factor of his conviction was "shaken baby syndrome", a scientific theory that some critics label junk science despite the majority of researchers in the field recognizing that some patterns of injury are suggestive of abuse which may at ...
The shaken baby syndrome diagnosis from doctors and nurses, their emotional response to Nikki’s condition and Roberson’s odd reaction all stacked against the then-suspect, said Wharton.
Caffey was the first to describe what is now known as shaken baby syndrome with a 1946 article on the association between long bone fractures and subdural hematomas in infants. [2] [4] He also provided the first description of infantile cortical hyperostosis, also known as Caffey's disease. [3]
The court found scientific opinion about "shaken baby syndrome" has changed, and a man sentenced to 35 years in prison deserves a new trial.
In 2009, the American Academy of Pediatrics changed the name of shaken baby syndrome to the more broadly defined "abusive head trauma" to include injuries caused by mechanisms other than shaking ...