Its a double tragedy - loss of your infant and being accused of breaking bones and striking blow to the head.
Ref: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2075884/Parents-guard-accusations-babies-shaken-death-continue-grow.html#ixzz1gzt1fOrR
"According to prosecutors, four-month-old Jayden Wray was gripped and twisted so brutally that bones throughout his body shattered, while vicious blows to his head damaged his brain."
Fortunately the case was thrown out.
"...after 60 medical and forensic experts at their murder trial disagreed over what really killed their son. Finally, the judge told the jury to find the couple not guilty because Jayden's post-mortem revealed he had rickets, a serious childhood bone disease which had once been eradicated in this country nearly a century ago. Rickets is linked to a lack of vitamin D, which the body synthesises from sunlight or absorbs from eating foods such as oily fish and eggs. The disease causes the skulls of children to weaken and their bones to easily break — symptoms which closely mimic those of a deliberately shaken baby.
"Doctors at Southampton General Hospital recently found 40 per cent of children from all backgrounds being treated in the orthopaedic department had a shortage of vitamin D in their bodies — and were, therefore, prone to rickets. "
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