Shaky foundations

摘要

What's worse: letting a baby-killer go free, or wrongly convicting a parent or carer of shaking a baby to death? That agonising question was first brought to our attention in 1997 when British au pair Louise Woodward was convicted of murder - later downgraded to involuntary manslaughter - in the US. The controversy over "shaken baby syndrome" has only intensified since then.