Research

While infant abuse is a real and tragic problem, over-diagnosis of infant abuse has been tearing apart benign families and sending innocent caretakers to prison for thirty years and counting. The problem is that sincere professionals have been working with a widely accepted but flawed model of shaken baby syndrome.

In the past few years, a growing chorus of critics has started to question the common knowledge about infant head injury in general and shaken baby syndrome in particular.

Please see law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer’s law review article and New York Times editorialfor the current perspective on convictions based on the historical model. For a more recent review, please see this law journal article written by a team of Innocence Project attorneys and physicians.

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Please visit our sister site at: EBMSI Research for research and articles pertaining to the misdiagnosis of child abuse. The panel on the right-hand side of the screen provides  links to medical journal articles and other information about the debate.

For a medical analysis that comes with a valuable set of downloadable journal articles, see this paper by emergency medical specialist and forensic practitioner Dr. Steven Gabaeff: http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7z55j01t.