There is always a proof: Not A Happy Household – Fatal Child Abuse
Though it is vital to recognize non-fatal child abuse, because of the need for intervention to prevent the 60 per cent recurrence rate and 10 per cent mortality rate, it can be almost as tragic to falsely accuse landlord convict parents or guardians where the injuries were non-culpable. There has sometimes been perhaps some excess of zeal on the part of pediatricians, radiologists, accident surgeons and pathologists to overinterpret injuries and scenarios that had an alternative and less sinister explanation. Though it is natural and vital for doctors to protect children and their siblings, medical opinion has to remain free from emotive bias and be confined within the bounds of what can be proved in each individual case, or injustice may be done. The majority of deaths are caused manually, either by hitting or beating with the hands, shaking, throwing, dropping and - less often - by burning or suffocation. It is exceptional for death to be caused by the impact of a blunt instrum...