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A child abuse incident on Christmas Eve sent a 4-month-old child to a Reno hospital with a head injury, according to RGJ online. According to detectives, the baby’s mother said that she left the infant with her boyfriend for approximately 20 minutes. When she returned to her home, the baby was acting different, so she [...]
An Illinois woman who kept children in an unlicensed daycare facility at her home has been indicted in the shaken baby syndrome case of a child who was under her care, according to the Quad-City Times. The state Attorney General’s Office announced today that 38-year-old Karyn McCallister was indicted for shaking the four-month-old baby, which [...]
Following the death of their infant daughter, Oklahoma parents Willis Joey Lambert Jr. and Latrice Sharron Russell have been charged with first-degree murder in connection with shaking and fatally injuring the child, according to the News OK website. The siblings of the shaken baby reported to investigators that Lambert was frustrated with his own difficultly [...]
An Indiana father who allegedly abused and shook his infant twins over two years ago was recently arrested for aggravated battery and neglect (two counts of each), according to The Herald Bulletin. According to the then 3-month-old twins’ mother, she left the twins in thirty-one-year-old Antonio S. Jones’ care while she was on a trip [...]
A California couple has filed a claim for an alleged shaking of their 4-year-old son, the twin brother of a little girl who died after an alleged incident of shaken baby syndrome by a nanny three years ago, according to ABC’s News10 website. According to the article, Scott and Lorena Juceam claim that a teacher [...]
A new study has found that many people charged with child abuse for shaking babies and causing serious head injuries to children are “let off the hook” in court, according to MedIndia online. The article reports that Dr. Amanda Stephens examined the cases of 68 children who received treatment for shaken baby syndrome in the [...]
An employee from Florida’s Charlotte County Corrections Institution faces charges of child abuse as a result of an incident of shaken baby syndrome, according to the NBC-2 news website. The site reports that the 23-year-old, Vincent Silio Orlando, is believed to have shaken his three-month-old boy multiple times in separate incidents. Nurses from Peace River [...]
As mentioned in many of the blog posts here on the Shaken Baby Syndrome Blog website, abusive head trauma (shaken baby syndrome) can lead to serious brain injuries for its victims. Among the most serious forms of head injury is traumatic brain injury (TBI). In order to educate the public about TBI, its causes and [...]
The mother of a baby boy who was allegedly shaken by a stepfather or another caregiver is being investigated by the Department of Children and Families, according to the News-Press website. Although the mother was not the one arrested in connection with the serious head injury suffered by the 8-month-old boy, she is being questioned [...]
Numerous news stories have surfaced regarding the serious injuries of baby Ethan Neiderbach that reportedly resulted from severe abusive head trauma. Sadly, the baby is said to have minimal brain activity as a result of the tragic incident. Since his parents are facing charges of child endangerment in connection with his fractured ribs and head [...]
