PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "While Britain's High Court ponders whether her voice - and the voices of other courageous doctors and scientists who have upset the medical establishment by testifying that Shaken Baby Syndrome is a myth should be silenced forever - the following citation - delivered in San Antonio in April, 2016, when she was named "The Innocence Network Champion of Justice award winner, in 2016, bears repeating."
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog;
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"Dr. Waney Squier is a consultant neuropathologist to the
Oxford University John Radcliffe Hospitals and honorary clinical
lecturer at Oxford University (U.K.). She is a member of the British
Neuropathological Society and the British Paediatric Neurology
Association, and she is an elected fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians and the Royal College of Pathologists. During her 31 years at
Oxford, she has specialized in the pathology of the developing brain in
the fetus, neonate, and child. Dr. Squier was among the first in the
world to recognize the criminal justice implications of scientific
research that cast doubt on the medical hypothesis known as Shaken Baby
Syndrome (SBS). She has been relentless and courageous in seeking to
prevent this frequently accepted but unproven hypothesis from sustaining
or producing wrongful convictions. Her influence has been felt around
the world, as she has written reports and/or testified in more than 160
cases in Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and
the United States. Through scores of peer-reviewed articles, invited
lectures, and television appearances, Dr. Squier has sought to inform
prosecutors, defence lawyers, coroners, forensic pathologists, and the
public at large that the SBS hypothesis has caused, and will continue to
cause, miscarriages of justice when accepted uncritically. She has had a
particularly strong voice that has encouraged innocence organizations
throughout the Network to devote more and more resources to examining
the integrity of convictions that were premised on the SBS hypothesis.
This scrutiny has contributed to at least 19 exonerations in the United
States, with more abroad and many more cases in the pipeline. Dr. Squier
has been personally involved in a number of these cases. Because of her
efforts, many wrongful convictions around the world have been – and
will continue to be – averted."
