Beginning in the late 1980s, the U.S. saw a surge in the number of people prosecuted for shaking infants to death. Research at the time suggested that the presence of three particular symptoms could only mean a child had been vigorously shaken to death, and the that the assault took place just before the infant lost consciousness.
But as Senior Editor Radley Balko explains, in the early 2000s, the medical consensus on shaken baby syndrome began to shift. In the meantime, thousands ofSource: Reason Magazine - Hit Run RSS Feed
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