IF YOU HAVE BEEN FALSELY ACCUSED:
OnSBS.com Resources
Susan C Anthony’s Checklist: What a Medical Expert Needs
Susan C Anthony Tips
The National Child Abuse Defense & Resource Center Resources/Attorneys
ParentalRights.Org
ParentsUSA.org
FamilyDefenseConsulting.com
Ascend Justice (Illinois based)
Evidence Based Medicine and Social Investigation (Resources, Research, Law Reviews etc.)
Kim Hart
Information Pack for Parents and Caregivers Falsely Accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome or Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy
SBSDefense.com

JOURNALISM:

• Washington Post: A Disputed Diagnosis Imprisons Parents by Debbie Cenziper
• Washington Post: “Bad science puts innocent people in jail — and keeps them there” By Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington
• The Atlantic: When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse by Stephanie Clifford
• The New York Times: Shaken-Baby Syndrome Faces New Questions in Court by Emily Bazelon
• NPR: Post Mortem: Death Investigation in America
• NPR: Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome by Joseph Shapiro
• Slate.com: Finally a Judge Calls Shaken Baby Diagnosis an “Article of Faith” by Deborah Tuerkheimer
• The Guardian: ‘We believe you harmed your child’: the war over shaken baby convictions by Will Storr
• Elaine Whitfield Sharp Series: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

 

PODCASTS:

• Do No Harm: From Wondery and NBC News comes the story of Melissa Bright. She thinks she’s living every parent’s worst nightmare when her five-month-old baby tumbles from a lawn chair and hits his head on the driveway. But after she rushes him to the hospital, a new nightmare begins.
• You’re Wrong About: Shaken Baby Syndrome Episode

 

VIDEO & FILM

• The Syndrome: Investigative reporter Susan Goldsmith’s explosive documentary focuses on a team of doctors who “expose the junk science behind an unprecedented criminal justice crisis.”
• Shaken Baby Syndrome: A Diagnosis Challenged by Gretchen Gavett for PBS
• PBS News Hour: When babies die, a disputed diagnosis sends parents to prison for abuse
• Waney Squier TED Talk: I believed in Shaken Baby Syndrome until science showed I was wrong
• Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Inertia of Injustice by Deborah Tuerkheimer
• “Diagnosis Murder” tells the story of several Canadian parents who say they were wrongfully accused, and the leading-edge medical researchers who believe they’re telling the truth. The stakes are high:

SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME:

• On SBS Blog run by Sue Luttner
• The Medill Justice Project U.S. Shaken-Baby Syndrome Database
• Medical Ethics Concerns in Child Abuse Investigations By George J. Barry and Diane L. Redleaf for The Family Defense Center
• Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma: A Complicated Child Welfare by Keith A. Findley et al.
• The Next Innocence Project: Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Criminal Courts by Deborah Tuerkheimer
• A Daubert Analysis of Abusive Head Trauma/Shaken Baby Syndrome Part 1 and Part 2 by Sandeep Narang, vs. Rebuttal by Patrick D. Barnes et al.: Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma, and Ac tual Innocence: Getting it Right
• ‘I Did Not Hurt Him…This Is a Nightmare’: The Introduction of False, But Not Fabricated, Forensic Evidence in Police Interrogations By Catherine White
• Has a ‘shaken baby’ always been shaken? by Knut Wester, Department of Clinical Medicine K1, University of Bergen, Norway
• Reforming the Use of Child Abuse Pediatric Teams in Child Protective Cases by Andrew C. Brown, J.D.
• Consensus statement on abusive head trauma in infants and young children and rebuttal: Outside the Echo Chamber: A Response to the “Consensus Statement On Abusive Head Trauma In Infants and Young Children”
• Statement of the Innocence Network on Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma
• A collection of witnessed and recorded shaking incidents (translated page). Torn Family has yet to locate a single verified shaking case that has resulted in the triad. Many have tragically been shaken on camera, but none of these victims display any of the symptoms SBS proponents claim they should.

 

MEDICAL RESEARCH:

• Swedish Review Declares Shaken Baby Theory Unproven
• The Swedish shaken baby syndrome report and review: what does the latest knowledge tell us?
• The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment and Assessment of Social Services Review of Shaken Baby Literature (PDF)
• The shaken baby syndrome: A clinical, pathological, and biomechanical study by Duhaime et al.
• Fatal pediatric head injuries caused by short-distance falls by Plunkett
• Infantile Subdural Haematoma and its Relationship to Whiplash Injuries by Guthkelch (original SBS hypothesis)
• Potential for head injuries in infants from low-height falls: Laboratory Investigation by Coates and Margulies
• EBMSI Research Group

GROUPS:
Pediatric Justice Association
Medical Kidnap
National Child Abuse Defense & Resource Center
Shaken Baby Syndrome False Accusations
Protecting Innocent Families
Medill Justice Project
The Michigan Innocence Clinic
The Innocence Project (National)
Fractured Families
ParentalRights.Org
National Association of Parents
Family Justice Resource Center

 

FOR CHILDREN:

• Why Can’t Uncle Come Home?: A story for children struggling with the wrongful conviction of a loved one. Timmy, and his little sister Kate, struggle to understand why Uncle can’t come home despite all the hard things that are happening. This story is designed to help address the hard questions of children who are struggling with the wrongful conviction of a loved one.
• Timmy & Kate Go To Visit: A story for children visiting a loved one in prison. Kate, and her big brother Timmy, have not been able to see their uncle in a long time, and are excited to visit him at the jail. This story is designed to help address the fears and questions of children visiting a loved one in prison.

BOOKS:

• Shaken Baby Syndrome: Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy (Review excerpt by Sue Lutner, read the full review here.) “A bold new book from Cambridge University Press assembles, in one passionate collection, the fundamental arguments for reconsidering 50 years of shaken baby convictions, Shaken Baby Syndrome: Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy. The authors, 32 experts with impeccable credentials from a range of medical, mathematical, scientific, and legal specialties, bring both years of experience and a fresh, international perspective to the debate.” 
• The Forensic Unreliability of the Shaken Baby Syndrome is a comprehensive overview of the history, science, medicine, and law surrounding SBS. It covers why such a controversial syndrome continues to be accepted in medical fields and in the courtroom, as well as discussing the sufficiency of current SBS evidence for the United States Supreme Court’s Daubert standard.
• In Legally Kidnapped: The Case Against Child Protective Services, former CPS worker Carlos Morales writes, “As an investigator for CPS, I did not help children; I hurt them. I did not protect families; I helped ruin them. I did not work to benefit society; I helped corrupt it.” These shocking words and more by someone who was on the inside reveal the truth about this corrupt organization.
• It Happened to Audrey details Audrey Edmunds’ terrifying story about being falsely accused of SBS, losing her husband and children, and spending 13 years behind bars fighting for freedom before finally being exonerated.
• Flawed Convictions: Shaken Baby Syndrome and the Inertia of Injustice by Deborah Tuerkheimer. In this new book, law professor Deborah Tuerkheimer explains how the understanding of SBS/AHT has evolved and that “the diagnostic triad alone does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that an infant was abused or that the last person with the baby was responsible for the baby’s condition.” Tuerkheimer also exposes the “extraordinary failings in the criminal justice system’s treatment of what is, in essence, a medical diagnosis of murder.”
• Edges of Truth: The Mary Weaver Story tells the story of Mary Weaver, who was found guilty of murdering a baby in her care in January 1993 and finally exonerated in March 1997, after being allowed to present new evidence at her third trial. More about Mary Weaver’s legal battle and other SBS exonerations can be found at The National Registry of Exonerations, a project of the University of Michigan Law School.
• They Took the Kids Last Night How the Child Protection System Puts Families at Risk by Diane L. Redleaf tells the account of six families that CPS wrongly removed children from. Diane illustrates the difficult conflicts that can arise between medical science, protection of children, and family rights.
• Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened by Jessica S. Henry  From Amazon.com: “Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect.  A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows—even encourages—these convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.”