POST: "Journey With 'Justice,": A rough road," published by "ON SBS";
GIST: "Dan Schrock, the author of Journey With “Justice”: Our Family’s Experience With “Shaken Baby” Allegations, is a gentler spirit in person than he is on the printed page. He has even found a message of hope in his daughter’s conviction for an infant shaking he is sure never happened. “The temptation is to say ‘the police did this’ and ‘the prosecutor did that,’” he concedes, “But behind all this is a society that loves children and is willing to do anything to protect them.” Even the investigators who amplified his family’s pain by lying to potential witnesses, he argues, were only trying to hold someone accountable for his granddaughter’s catastrophic collapse. Natalia Benson was three months old in July, 2005, the morning she wakened her mother, Barb Schrock, at 3 am with a high-pitched scream, followed by breathing problems and a call to 911. Within two days, Natalia had become a ward of the state, diagnosed as a shaken baby, and Barb was the only suspect.........Dan Schrock’s main achievement in Journey is his careful tracking of the evolving case against his daughter: Early in the story, he transcribes the initial police interviews with family members, and he carries his thorough knowledge of these transcripts through the narration. His book illustrates clearly how misinformation, propagated early on by police trying to corner their suspect, confused the facts and tainted both the investigation and the trials. He also compares the medical testimony from different doctors, revealing how the physicians could reach different conclusions from the same scans and records, but still return to their unanimous confidence that the last caretaker with the child before her collapse was guilty of assault."
The entire post can be found at:
http://onsbs.com/2014/03/13/journey-with-justice-a-rough-road/
PUBLISHER'S NOTE:
Dear Reader. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog. We are following this case.
I have added a search box for content in this blog which now encompasses several thousand posts. The search box is located near the bottom of the screen just above the list of links. I am confident that this powerful search tool provided by "Blogger" will help our readers and myself get more out of the site.
The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/
Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.ca/2013/12/the-charles-smith-award-presented-to_28.html
I look forward to hearing from readers at:
hlevy15@gmail.com.
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog;
