Bolivar foster dad accused of shaking 3-month-old baby

A Bolivar foster father has been accused of shaking a 3-month-old child who became unresponsive and had to be hospitalized for more than a week.

John Grant, 34, was indicted by a grand jury in August and arrested Tuesday on a felony child abuse charge.

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Foster parent arrested for shaking baby

A foster father has been arrested and charged with physical abuse of a child after he reportedly admitted to shaking his 5-month-old foster child on March 29.

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Doctors Said They Shook Their Baby to Death. They Didn’t.

When Jarayha Wolf first saw the detectives down the hall from the hospital room where her three-month-old son was on life support, it never crossed her mind that they were waiting for her.

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Doctor who misled courts over shaken baby syndrome struck off

A doctor found to have deliberately and dishonestly misled the courts when giving expert evidence about so-called shaken baby syndrome has been struck off.

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Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Diagnosis That Divides the Medical World

Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Diagnosis That Divides the Medical World

Perhaps no crime staggers the mind, or turns the stomach, more than the murder of a baby, and so it is not a surprise when law enforcement comes down hard on the presumed killers. Often enough, these are men and women accused of having succumbed to sudden rage or simmering frustration and literally shaken the life out of a helpless infant who would not stop crying or would not fall asleep.

When babies die, a disputed diagnosis sends parents to prison for abuse

When babies die, a disputed diagnosis sends parents to prison for abuse

For decades, when a child appeared in an emergency room with certain symptoms, including bleeding behind the eyes and bleeding around the brain, many doctors assumed violent shaking to be the cause. But in recent years, the Shaken Baby Syndrome diagnosis has come under intense scrutiny, and so have many of the resulting prosecutions and convictions. Special correspondent Jackie Judd reports.

Maine Man Accused of Shaking Baby Pleads Guilty

Maine Man Accused of Shaking Baby Pleads Guilty

A young father who violently shook his 6-month-old daughter when her fussing interrupted his video game pleaded guilty Friday in a case that drew national attention because of a court battle over an order to not resuscitate the infant.

Foster mother accused of shaking infant to death

Foster mother accused of shaking infant to death

Authorities say a foster mother told them she lost control when she shook a baby to death because the child would not stop crying.

In re A.P. - Maybe Moot before Maine Supreme Court Can Decide DHHS Right to Direct DNR over Mother Trask's Objections

In re A.P. - Maybe Moot before Maine Supreme Court Can Decide DHHS Right to Direct DNR over Mother Trask's Objections

This is not a traditional futility conflict, because it is not between the patient's surrogate and the patient's healthcare providers.  Instead, the dispute is between a baby's mother (Virginia Trask) and the Maine Department of Health and Human Services who has taken (temporary) custody of the child.

DHHS Backtracks on No-Resuscitate Order

DHHS Backtracks on No-Resuscitate Order

The Maine agency that won the right to make medical decisions on behalf of a brain-injured infant is backtracking, saying it'll defer to the wishes of the child's mother.

Foster parent scheduled for court in shaking baby case

Foster parent scheduled for court in shaking baby case

The Sallisaw woman accused of shaking a three-month old baby last month is scheduled for court next Wednesday.

Epidemic of Infantile Rickets May Have Put Thousands of Innocent Parents in Jail for Child Abuse

Epidemic of Infantile Rickets May Have Put Thousands of Innocent Parents in Jail for Child Abuse 

Child abuse is a terrible thing. But as evidenced by the work of a select few, including Dr. David Ayoub, thousands of child abuse cases may in fact be misdiagnosed cases of rickets, caused by either vitamin D deficiency or aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, or both.

Shaken Baby Syndrome often caused by vaccines, not parents

Shaken Baby Syndrome often caused by vaccines, not parents

It is increasingly common for parents of children with one or more of the triad of symptoms associated with so-called "Shaken Baby Syndrome" (SBS) to be automatically accused of committing child abuse. But often missing from this causal equation is any investigation into the vaccinations that children diagnosed with SBS received prior to developing this very serious condition, a condition that copious scientific research has shown can, indeed, be caused by vaccines.

Man Accused Of Abusing Foster Child In Court

Man Accused Of Abusing Foster Child In Court

A foster father accused of shaking his 2-year-old daughter will be in court today.


'No Comment' from Foster Father Accused of Abuse

We lost our kids for 5 years after wrongful ‘shaken baby’ conviction

We lost our kids for 5 years after wrongful ‘shaken baby’ conviction


FIVE years ago doting dad Ben Butler saved his baby daughter’s life when she stopped breathing – and soon found himself in JAIL.

State makes record $3.75 million settlement in Gresham child abuse case of Stephanie Kuntupis

State makes record $3.75 million settlement in Gresham child abuse case of Stephanie Kuntupis


Nearly five years after a Gresham man violently shook his 2-year-old foster daughter -- blinding her in one eye and causing irreversible brain damage -- the state has agreed to pay her $3.75 million, the largest child welfare payout in Oregon history.

Prosecution rests in Marsden murder trial

Prosecution rests in Marsden murder trial

The prosecution rested its case Monday in the murder trial of Damien Marsden following testimony from an expert witness that Marsden’s son did not die from injuries he suffered from falling off a bed. Dr. Arne Graff also testified that 4-month-old Rylin Marsden died of injuries following a non-accidental head trauma, which likely occurred just before he started showing symptoms on the afternoon of Aug. 2, 2009. Damien Marsden, 33, of Grygla, Minn., is facing three counts of second-degree murder in state District Court in his son’s death.

Defense offers alternate theory in Marsden murder trial

The defense team for Damien Marsden took its first steps at putting a dent in the prosecution’s case Tuesday, forwarding its own theory for the death of Marsden’s son bolstered by testimony from a forensic pathologist.

Marsden found not guilty on all three murder counts

Damien Marsden was found not guilty Wednesday by a 12-person jury on all three murder counts he faced in state District Court in connection to the death of his 4-month-old son. Marsden, 33, of Grygla, Minn., was on trial for causing a head injury to his son, Rylin Marsden, leading to his eventual death in August 2009.

Accused of killing our son... then robbed of our newborn daughter: The couple wrongly blamed for shaking their rickets-stricken baby to death relive their horrific ordeal

Accused of killing our son... then robbed of our newborn daughter: The couple wrongly blamed for shaking their rickets-stricken baby to death relive their horrific ordeal

Jayda Wray came home on Good Friday for the first time. 

The excited little girl, wearing a bright red cardigan, was carried through the front door by her father and mother, who had waited since the day she was born for the precious moment.

Doctor gagged for doubting shaken baby syndrome

Doctor gagged for doubting shaken baby syndrome

Yet, according to researchers and lawyers contacted by New Scientist, there are serious doubts about the safety of many shaken baby convictions. This is despite the fact that the triad of symptoms has been taken as evidence of murder for 40 years.

The disturbing reason why a growing number of parents are being falsely accused of shaking their babies to death

The disturbing reason why a growing number of parents are being falsely accused of shaking their babies to death

Standing together in the dock of the world’s most famous criminal court stood two confused and sobbing parents, accused of the worst offence imaginable: beating and shaking their own baby to death.