Getting it wrong can have terrible consequences. When a Crime Scene Investigator gets it wrong, an innocent person might go to prison. When a doctor gets it wrong, you might be treated for a disease you don’t have (and the one you do have goes untreated!). And when a Child Abuse Pediatrician (CAP) gets it…
Category: Unexplained Injuries
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again for this discussion about how to handle a situation where a medical professional has misdiagnosed child abuse. Nothing could be more awful for a parent than to take your child to the hospital to get them help, and then be accused of causing whatever is hurting them….
It’s every parent’s worst nightmare. Taking your sick child to the doctor to help them get better, only to be accused of causing those injuries yourself. And as if those heinous accusations aren’t awful enough, now the state is getting involved. You’re going to be investigated, accused, possibly charged with a crime. Some well meaning…
One of the hardest things a doctor does during their professional career is attempt to determine whether or not a hurt child has been abused, or simply had an accident. After all, a lot rides on their opinion. Families get torn apart. People go to prison. Children lose their parents. So the pressure to get…
Shaken Baby Syndrome. Just those three little words cause horror and heartbreak. Which is completely understandable. After all, It’s an undeniable tragedy when it happens. But does it really happen as often as people think? Read the news and it would be easy to believe that almost a quarter of the population cannot bear the…
Parents the world over who have endured the heartbreak of losing a child, will be the first to tell you that it’s a life altering event. A pain that never completely heals. A pain that dulls, but never really goes away. Could anything be more dreadful than that? Sadly, the answer is yes. Being…
The mysterious death of a baby boy in Detroit has left one family reeling amidst accusations of abuse. The baby, identified simply as ‘Kass’ was being cared for by his grandmother, aunt and uncle while his mother was at work. When they discovered that he was struggling to breathe, the family rushed him to…
In our previous article we introduced the subject of brittle bone disease, and invited you to consider what this discovery would be like for a parent who is then accused of child abuse. It has happened again and again, perfectly innocent parents who love their children very much, and who are accused of hurting…
Imagine this… your infant daughter is fussy and cries a lot. You worry that something may be wrong, but fussy babies are not uncommon, and everyone tells you to hang in there. But she doesn’t seem to be getting better, and sometimes she cries as if she’s in pain. It worries you. Several doctor’s…