These resources will help you and your lawyer understand the problematic of medical misdiagnoses by child abuse pediatricians leading to false child abuse accusations.
Remember, your lawyer is not an expert on false child abuse accusations problematic unless he/she had already dealt with similar cases. It will be your responsibility to provide them with relevant information that they can base your defense on.
Greg Kear kindly shared his extensive resource library of articles on many aspects of false child abuse accusations.
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SBU on traumatic shaking report
Gabaeff, Steven. Exploring the Controversy in Child Abuse Pediatrics and False Accusations of Abuse.
Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, 2008.
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- a certificate that CAPs are NOT obligated to have to work as child abuse pediatricians in Canada
Clifford, Stephanie: When the Misdiagnosis is Child Abuse. The Marshall Project. 08/20/2020.
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Often cited child protection cases. Superior Court of Justice, Ontario.
https://casontario.blogspot.com/
all information you need to educate yourself and fight CAS
Nancy Shaefer: The Corrupt Business of Child Protective Service
same level of corruption present in Canadian child welfare agencies
this 2008 report by the Georgia senator cost her not only her seat, but probably her life (there were suspicious murder/suicide deaths of Shaefer, and her husband; both Christians
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Ehlers-Danlos syndrome
Diagnosing EDS - Beighton scale.
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Pals, Gerard: Child Abuse & OI - from the Geneticist Perspective.
Vitamin D deficiency infantile rickets
Ayoub, David. Commentary on Posterior Rib Fractures.
Paterson, Colin R. Vitamin D deficiency Rickets and Allegations of Non-accidental Injury.
what Vitamin D deficiency rickets is diagnosed (X-ray findings and Vitamin D levels)
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The Scientific Controversy That’s Tearing Families Apart.
interview with the neuroscientist Cyrille Rossant about “Shaken Baby Syndrome”
The Swedish Agency for Health Technology Assessment & Assessment of Social Services discusses head trauma and lists actual diagnoses that might have been misdiagnosed as abuse (p.56-57).
Statement of the Innocence Network on Shaken Baby Syndrome/ Abusive Head Trauma.
Superior Court of New Jersey: Appeal regarding two SBS alleged cases. September, 2023.
states that “[t]he evidence supports the finding that there is a real dispute in the larger medical and scientific community about the validity of shaking only SBS/AHT theory, despite its seeming acceptance in the pediatric medical community.
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FB group: Parents Behind the Pinwheels
stories from families whose children were medically kidnapped
FB group: Fractured Families
in case your child has unexplained fractures
CSI on Trial: Shaken baby Syndrome (audio).
- wrongful hypothesis rooted in the mechanics of whiplash, proven to be wrong as the only cause of so called “triad” - retinal and brain bleeding and brain swelling.
A podcast on cases of medical kidnapping.
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Grinius, Crystal. Family and Children Services: Child Protection or Child Corruption.
Dealing with FCAS in Ontario up and close in her childhood and later as a parent.
Maloney, Beth Alison, J.D.: Protecting Your Child from the Child Protection System.
Tuerkheimer, Deborah: Flawed Convictions. “Shaken Baby Syndrome” and the Inertia of Justice.
Dr Turkheimer, Professor of Law from Harvard and Yale, “exposes extraordinary failings in the criminal justice system’s treatment of what is, in essence, a medical diagnosis of murder”
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Misdiagnosed families speak out on false child abuse accusations in Ontario and the USA
CSI on Trial: Shaken Baby Syndrome.
A documentary on the junk science used by the child abuse community to this very day.
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Pinsley, Mark: The Cost of Misdiagnosis, 2023.
-how much do misdiagnoses of child abuse cost the taxpayers in unnecessary social work casework, foster care, parenting programs, defending lawsuits. Example from Pennsylvania.
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