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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.
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.
As to claims of exonerations in shaken baby syndrome cases, Laskey pointed to a 2021 paper authored by Narang and others that found just 3% of all such convictions between 2008 and 2018 were ...
Shaken baby syndrome (SBS), also known as abusive head trauma (AHT), is a controversial and scientifically disputed [4] [5] [6] medical condition in children younger than five years old, [3] hypothesized to be caused by blunt trauma, vigorous shaking, or a combination of both.
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 ...
Retinal hemorrhages often are associated with shaken baby syndrome, the complaint said. It noted the child also had "an extremely large amount of brain swelling." He died of his injuries on Sept. 25.
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]
In an 11th-hour turn of events, Robert Roberson, the first person set to be executed in the U.S. based on the largely discredited "shaken baby syndrome" hypothesis, was granted a temporary hold on ...