“states should develop error-correction bodies to identify past errors that have resulted in wrongful convictions of people accused of shaking a child.”
Category: USA
Michigan Men Accused of Toddler Deaths Question Shaken Baby Syndrome by Jacob Gershman, Wall Street Journal, 2016
US experts question the theory of Shaken Baby Syndrome, 2016.
Chicago Tribune-June 2005
‘While some are clearly guilty of child abuse, many may be serving time for a crime they did not commit, say a growing number of physicians, pathologists and brain-injury specialists.”
Report on Child Protection Services by US Senator Nancy Schaefer
“I believe Child Protection Services nationwide has become corrupt and that the entire system is broken almost beyond repair.” Dated: 16 November 2007
Foster Care: Its Time to Think Out of the Box by Suranya Aiyar
“We must reject the ideology of the Western child welfare services that makes a split between the interest of the child on the on hand and the presence of parents and extended family in its life on the other.”
Understanding and Responding to Child Confiscation by Social Service Agencies
Suranya Aiyar surveys the principles and practices of Western child protection systems. Published in 2012 in Pravasi Today.
Junk Science Serves Junk Justice: We Can Do Better by Norm Pattis
Article by US lawyer, Norm Pattis, arguing that allegations of Shaken Baby Syndrome are based on “questionable scientific evidence”. 2005, Connecticut Law Tribune.
Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma, and Actual Innocence: Getting it Right by Patrick D. Barnes, Keith A. Findley, David A. Moran and Waney Squier
USA, UK, 2012. A peer-reviewed academic paper refuting Shaken Baby Syndrome theory as a default diagnosis when certain symptoms are presented by babies and children.
CAPTA: The Child Abuse Laws Which Could Destroy Your Reputation by Dr. Mercola
USA, 2011. Dr. Joseph Mercola argues that child abuse laws in the United States of America have created an industry of dubious child abuse claims.