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In Brief
Nursery World,
13 March 2008
Shaken baby syndrome may not actually exist, according to scientists interviewed in a BBC 'Panorama' programme shown this week.
The scientists believe that some people's convictions for shaking babies to death may be unsafe, and suggest that the symptoms, including bleeding over the surface of the brain and in the back of the eyes, may instead have more innocent causes. Doubts about the science are to form the basis for an upcoming appeal against the conviction of childminder Karen Henderson who, in November 2007, was convicted of violently shaking to death a toddler in her care. - Smoking by parents may be to blame for the...
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