Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Experts are divided on the use of shaken baby syndrome diagnoses in criminal cases. Credit: Natalia Ojewska for The Texas Tribune ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common cause of shaken baby incidents is continuous crying. Cavan Images via Getty Images In the early 1990s when I was a young ...

Brian Wharton, the chief detective of a small police force in East Texas, had seen his share of tragedies on the job, but he had never handled a case like Robert Roberson’s: In January 2002, Roberson, ...

In 1971, a British doctor was trying to puzzle out a mystery: How can a child with no signs of external trauma or injury present with bleeding between the skull and brain? That doctor, A. Norman ...

The New Jersey Supreme Court has agreed with the lower courts in finding that expert testimony on the diagnosis of abusive head trauma, known as shaken baby syndrome, isn’t scientifically reliable.

The court found that prosecutors did not prove general acceptance in the medical and biomechanical communities that shaking alone causes the syndrome's symptoms. This ruling impacts two Middlesex ...

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A growing number of medical experts and law enforcement officials are reversing testimony that put parents behind bars. But they face an uphill battle. Brian Wharton, the chief detective of a small ...