In the Boston Globe, columnist Yvonne Abraham writes about how prosecutors in the Middlesex County, Mass., district attorney’s office withheld exculpatory evidence in the Shaken Baby Syndrome case against Irish nanny Aisling Brady McCarthy.

Medical evidence can be inconclusive in revealing whether a parent is guilty of murder

In 1997, a young British nanny charged with murder brought shaken baby syndrome into the national spotlight, and raised a scientific debate that continues to shape child abuse cases today.

In 1997, a young British nanny charged with murder brought shaken baby syndrome into the national spotlight, and raised a scientific debate that continues to shape child abuse cases today.

Aisling Brady McCarthy (right), pictured during a court appearance, “just doesn’t want anyone else to go through what she did,” her lawyer said.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — FEW things are tougher for a parent than dealing with a child’s serious medical condition, particularly if it is complicated and hard to diagnose.

It was a heartbreaking case that ripped a 9-year-old girl from her South Florida family and sent her mother to prison for years.

We, the undersigned members of various professions worldwide have deep concerns regarding the protection of children from abuse, neglect, and exploitation...

For decades, when a child appeared in an emergency room with unexplained head injuries and a disturbing set of symptoms, many doctors assumed one thing to be the cause: violent shaking and potential child abuse.

Mother acquitted of shaking a baby: ‘I would have committed suicide'. Kelly Kline was acquitted in 2012 of shaking a baby to death in her home day care in Ohio.