Suranya Aiyar, a New Delhi-based lawyer, who has been working on a pro bono basis with families facing child protection …
Category: USA
Unfeeling U.S. agencies confiscate children from Indian parents by Siddharth Tiwari, The Sunday Guardian, September 2017
Legal experts, doctors, and investigative journalists alleged that the US child protection agencies were biased and used flawed techniques to detect abuse.
Flawed Convictions: “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Injustice by Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer
This is a book by Professor Deborah Tuerkheimer which can be bought here “The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents …
Birth Parents and the Collateral Consequences of Court-ordered Child Removal: Towards a Comprehensive Framework by Karen Broadhurst and Claire Maison, 2017
A wide ranging study arguing for a more humane approach to parents by the care system in First World countries.
Strange Bedfellows: How Child Welfare Agencies Can Benefit From Investing In Multidisciplinary Parent Representation by Vivek S. Sankaran, Patricia L. Rideout & Martha L. Raimon
Published in 2015. Interesting background reading on how the US child protection system operates.
Representing Parents in Child Welfare Cases by Vivek Sankaran, Law Professor, Univ. of Michigan
“parents typically meet their attorneys for the first time in the courthouse immediately before or just following their initial removal hearing. In all likelihood, the attorney who claims to represent them was appointed (and will be paid) by the same court that authorised the children’s removal.”
Un-Convicting the Innocent: The Case for Shaken Baby Syndrome Review Panels by Rachel Burg, 2012
“states should develop error-correction bodies to identify past errors that have resulted in wrongful convictions of people accused of shaking a child.”
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