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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.
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.
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.
It is now medical consensus that other medical conditions, including infections, accidental trauma and pre-existing illnesses, can also cause the symptoms associated with shaken baby syndrome ...
Overstimulation may be a contributing factor to infant crying and that periods of active crying might serve the purpose of discharging overstimulation and helping the baby's nervous system regain homeostasis. [10] [11] Although crying is an infant's mode of communication, it is not limited to a monotonous sound.
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 ...
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.