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No teaser titles of this blog... I am sickened, and seeing red on an interview I only moments ago heard with the producer of a news documentary for “The Fifth Estate”.. airing tonight, the one hour documentary entitled “Diagnosis Murder” is covering the topic of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS).
Although I am unsure of the motivation that CBC found to produce this documentary, it appears that its roots are in a recent court case in British Columbia of a couple falsely accused of abusing their child as a result of SBS:
What made me physically feel ill as I listened to this interview with Gillian Findlay (CBC) is that the Documentary appears less to follow the tribunals of a false accused couple, but the recent scientific research stating in simple terms SBS is a myth.
ARE YOU KIDDING!!?? These scientists suggest that brain haemorrhages, retinal bleeds in these infants is a result of per-existing conditions, or viruses, or even more ridiculous, inexplicably spontaneous. In partnership with these publicly funded basement dwellers, a team of bio-mechanical engineers invite college football players in to shake the life out of crash test dummy infants, and seem unable to cause damage to the dummy. They claim that if truly a baby is shaken to death, ribs would be broken, and contusions would litter the body. So an adult victim of a life ending head injury in a vehicle crash actually died of a pre-existing condition. Because no ribs were broken as their head went through a windshield.. Cause of death was a result of a virus.
I try, as I blog to remain objective, and believe I give a certain degree of respect to those opinions I may not agree with... But I am sorry, in this case I cannot. We have lost complete grasp on common sense in this case. As a result that they are unable to reproduce the signs and symptoms and fatalities in a lab, courts are giving validity to child abusers, and precedents are being set that as our scientists fight to prove that shaking an infant ferociously for minutes on end does not cause them harm.
Typically I would not cast such an outcry of disgust until I do research (in this case watch tonight’s airing of the documentary). BUT, regardless of any defence that the researchers make on their efforts to prove this is a myth, any lab results will be forever impossible for me to believe that this violence against defenceless infants is harmless.
I cannot see anything, that will ultimately be used as a defence and freeing child abusers from prosecution, that is so counter to common sense. I deeply saddened by this.
Although I am unsure of the motivation that CBC found to produce this documentary, it appears that its roots are in a recent court case in British Columbia of a couple falsely accused of abusing their child as a result of SBS:
"Diagnosis Murder" tells the story of several Canadian parents who say they were wrongfully accused--and the leading-edge medical researchers who believe they're telling the truth. The stakes are high: Some have gone to jail. All have had their other children taken away from them.
One couple recently had their children returned after a four-year battle. Even though the courts in B.C. cleared Zabeth and Paul Baynes of charges they had shaken their baby, the couple feel they will carry the stigma for life. Another man in Ontario has now had his case put up for judicial review, giving him hope that his name may too be cleared.”
What made me physically feel ill as I listened to this interview with Gillian Findlay (CBC) is that the Documentary appears less to follow the tribunals of a false accused couple, but the recent scientific research stating in simple terms SBS is a myth.
ARE YOU KIDDING!!?? These scientists suggest that brain haemorrhages, retinal bleeds in these infants is a result of per-existing conditions, or viruses, or even more ridiculous, inexplicably spontaneous. In partnership with these publicly funded basement dwellers, a team of bio-mechanical engineers invite college football players in to shake the life out of crash test dummy infants, and seem unable to cause damage to the dummy. They claim that if truly a baby is shaken to death, ribs would be broken, and contusions would litter the body. So an adult victim of a life ending head injury in a vehicle crash actually died of a pre-existing condition. Because no ribs were broken as their head went through a windshield.. Cause of death was a result of a virus.
I try, as I blog to remain objective, and believe I give a certain degree of respect to those opinions I may not agree with... But I am sorry, in this case I cannot. We have lost complete grasp on common sense in this case. As a result that they are unable to reproduce the signs and symptoms and fatalities in a lab, courts are giving validity to child abusers, and precedents are being set that as our scientists fight to prove that shaking an infant ferociously for minutes on end does not cause them harm.
"Dr Squier’s main concern is the challenges to the science that have come from biomechanics and pathology. In 1987 a Pennsylvania study that was undertaken to validate the SBS theory suggested that in fact it was virtually impossible for a person to exert the level of force needed to sustain the triad of injuries."
Typically I would not cast such an outcry of disgust until I do research (in this case watch tonight’s airing of the documentary). BUT, regardless of any defence that the researchers make on their efforts to prove this is a myth, any lab results will be forever impossible for me to believe that this violence against defenceless infants is harmless.
I cannot see anything, that will ultimately be used as a defence and freeing child abusers from prosecution, that is so counter to common sense. I deeply saddened by this.
