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>>YeGobl+(OP)
The most bonkers thing here to me is giving a man a death sentence because of a believed shaken baby death that he promptly took to the hospital.

>>jncfhn+Ze
That is in no way evidence against it being murder. Abusers do that kind of thing all the time.

>>flango+ep
Shaken baby syndrome is very unlikely to be the result of malicious abuse though. It’s almost always a deeply frustrated parent or caregiver who is desperate, trying to assert control over a screaming infant, and does not understand that this could kill them, or at least thinks they will not. It is child abuse, but hardly of the same nature as most people assume with the term.

Death sentence strikes me as an idiotic punishment.

>>jncfhn+dr
> It’s almost always a deeply frustrated parent or caregiver who is desperate, trying to assert control over a screaming infant,

That sounds like malicious abuse to me.

> and does not understand that this could kill them, or at least thinks they will not.

It would still be manslaughter at least, if not murder. And if shaking the baby was itself felonious abuse, then an accidental death resulting from that is probably felony murder in states with such statutes.