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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
You realize a lot of abused kids are taken to the hospital by their abuser?

Kids got a broken arm or a broken nose from being slapped around, abuser can't hide it forever. Eventually kids gotta go to school or cops are going to do a welfare check. Same thing if kid disappears off the radar.

>>vorpal+kl
That’s a very different problem from shaken baby syndrome. See adjacent reply.

>>jncfhn+hr
Your assertion is simply wrong.

SBS is not just a parent trying to shush a baby - it requires a very significant amount of force in a healthy infant. This is not a "oh shush let me hug you" thing, this requires repeatedly seriously jostling the baby hard enough to pinch it's airway off or bounce it's brain off the inside of it's skull. Usually repeatedly.

>>vorpal+PN
I’m not saying it’s “let me hug you” I’m saying it’s out of desperation. And one of the biggest ways to avoid it is EDUCATION for parents who do not know better. Because most cases of this are not people intentionally murdering children but people who are at their wits end and desperately need help, the bare minimum of which is a mental note that this particular form of desperate exhaustion is dangerous to the child.

And as a general rule, KILLING people because they made a mistake is really fucking dumb.