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Originally Posted by homealone
the trouble is, an abusive parent would be as likely to deny shaking the baby as a non-abusive one.
Equally a Medical 'expert' asked to provide an opinion would be inclined to 'err on the side of caution', as the consequences of failing to diagnose actual abuse could be worse than discounting the possibility.
So yes, it is likely that mis-diagnosis has occurred, but, harshly, the system as it stands 'fails safe' in favour of the child - personally I find that balance tipped the right way?
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However some parents have been accused,charged and jailed on some very flimsy evidence.I think that it couldn't hurt to be really certain that more than this can be used to take a parent to court when there is absolutely no OTHER evidence to support that a child is being abused.If there is no record or evidence of previous abuse then perhaps a cooling off period for assessment should be applied.
Also the suspicion that Shaken Baby Syndrome may not be due to severe shaking but possibly to other factors has been about for some little while so this newest discovery in the US may not be as surprising to some.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...2Fnbaby113.xml
http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/sh...y_syndrome.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns9999874
http://www.ivillage.co.uk/pregnancya...178639,00.html