PBS's Frontline Exposes Wrongful Convictions For Child Abuse and Shaken Baby Syndrome
In an eye-opening new Frontline segment, The Child Cases, PBS and its partners present a critical look into "child cases" and what goes wrong from a scientific and prosecutorial standpoint when innocent people are convicted of abusing and killing children. This segment tells the story of one man on death row for killing a child who appears to have suffered a bleeding disorder, a woman who sat in jail for over a year before she was found not-guilty of killing her child, and a daycare provider who served a prison sentence before being released on appeal. The narrator interviews medical examiners who work on child death cases, attorneys, as well as family members and witnesses to these cases. This segment is one of several stories about faulty science that leads to the conviction of innocent people for child deaths.
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