Shaken babies

 

"The majority view is that a combination of three brain injuries - known as the triad - must be present: swelling of the brain, bleeding between the skull and the brain, and bleeding in the retina."

"Dr Squier holds a minority view that these injuries can occur in other ways, for example through a baby suffering injuries while falling over. "

"Having once been an expert witness for the prosecution, Dr Squier switched to the defence team. "

"Her friends argue she is now subject to a witch hunt. But an independent panel has found she overstepped the boundaries of what is expected of an expert witness."

"Panorama: Shaken Babies: What's the Truth? on Monday 14 March at 20:30 GMT on BBC One."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-35787095

This case has serious implications for expert witnesses and for families.

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"The decision today does nothing to deliver justice to devastated families whose children have suffered intracranial injuries," says Carrie Sperling, co-director of the Wisconsin Innocence Project aimed at preventing miscarriages of justice. "Instead, it ignores the issue at the heart of the matter – that experts cannot diagnose abusive head trauma with any degree of reliability. Squier has provided a scientific perspective in an area fraught with emotion, a lack of objectivity and a demand for easy answers."

"In 2010, another researcher challenging the triad, Marta Cohen – a pathologist at Sheffield Children’s Hospital in the UK – was summoned by the UK General Medical Council but cleared of any wrongdoing."

" `I suspect there will be no one in England willing to dispute allegations of shaken baby syndrome now the finding against [Squier] is unfavourable,` says Edward Willey, a forensic pathologist in St Petersburg, Florida. `Opposition is eliminated.` "

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2080371-shaken-baby-expert-witness-found-guilty-of-misleading-courts/

Update
http://www.witneygazette.co.uk/news/14381409.Campaign_group_defends__quot_dishonest_quot__doctor_struck_off_medical_register_for__shaken_baby__evidence/