New post following seasonal break: (1st in series); Yadira Ramos and Mauricio Perez: Assumptions About Shaken Baby Syndrome Now Being Questioned; Part one of two reports by reporter Monica Alonzo: Phoenix New Times

STORY: "Assumptions about shaken baby syndrome now being questioned," by Monica Alonzo, published by the Phoenix New Times on August 15, 2013.

GIST:  "Shaken baby syndrome. It's a condition we've all heard of — the stuff of Lifetime TV movies and Law & Order episodes. First diagnosed in the 1970s, it has led to hundreds of prosecutions and helped medical and law enforcement personnel better reveal cases of child abuse. Or has it? Phoenix police detectives who investigate abuse believed the accounts of the cooperative parents and the roommates who were in the apartment when the baby was injured. They determined that the event was an accident and never pursued criminal charges. But doctors and social workers — and, later, state child welfare workers — weren't convinced. They repeatedly urged Ramos and Perez to come clean about what had really happened. "Why do they want us to make something up?" Ramos tells New Times. "We told them what happened. He fell off the bed. We didn't hurt him." Either way, it's all but certain that Yadira Ramos and Mauricio Perez will never see either of their children again."

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2013-08-15/news/assumptions-about-shaken-baby-syndrome-now-being-questioned/

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