Shaken baby syndrome, also called abusive head trauma, happens when a baby or toddler is violently shaken. This causes the brain to bounce inside the skull, leading to swelling, bruising, or bleeding.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A judge ordered that a day care worker convicted in the 2003 shaken baby death of a 14-month-old girl released 11 years early as she appeals her case. Jennifer Del Prete, 43, has ...

A man has been charged with aggravated child abuse in connection with the near-fatal brain bleed that his 7-month-old son sustained. Anthony Lamar Hester, 31, was arrested and booked into Volusia ...

New Jersey’s highest court ruled Thursday that expert testimony about shaken baby syndrome is scientifically unreliable and inadmissible in two upcoming trials, a decision that comes as the long-held ...

BENTON COUNTY, ARKANSAS, Ark. — A Rogers man serving a prison sentence for shaking his infant son and causing permanent injuries was back in court on Monday, facing a murder charge after his child's ...

Police have filed feonly charges against a Fairborn man who allegedly shook and injured his 2-month-old son. The baby is in critical condition at Children's Medical Center. Matthew Dietsch is charged ...

An Eagle Lake man has been charged with aggravated child abuse, a first-degree felony, after the Polk County Sheriff's Office said he caused critical injuries to a 3-month-old baby for whom he was ...

I live in Palestine, Texas, where I am raising four kids. In 2003, I was one of the jurors in Robert Roberson’s murder trial. I also testified in front of a committee of Texas lawmakers at the Capitol ...