A medical theory that has led to dozens of women being jailed for shaking their babies has been called into question by new scientific research.
Child abuse claims often cause the normal standards of evidence to be thrown out the window. There is no doubt that some babies have been shaken so hard that it caused them harm. But as this article points out, some of the symptoms that have been used to prove harm can come from natural child birth. I don’t doubt that at least some people who have been convicted of shaking their babies were innocent.