Paul Nutteing
2005-01-01 09:40:41 UTC
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1381134,00.html
Quote
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Friday December 31, 2004
The Guardian
Two or three cot deaths in a family should not automatically arouse
suspicions of infanticide, say the authors of the largest study ever carried
out of the unexplained deaths of babies in the UK.
The issue has been particularly controversial in recent years. Trupti Patel
and Sally Clark were both cleared of killing their babies after courts
refused to accept the expert testimony of the paediatrician Professor Sir
Roy Meadow that more than one death was likely to be an unnatural event.
In his book ABC of Child Abuse, Prof Meadow wrote that "two is suspicious
and three murder, unless proved otherwise... is a sensible working rule for
anyone encountering these tragedies."
Research in the Lancet medical journal published today reveals that even
three deaths in one family can occur by natural causes; while a small
proportion of second and third deaths do turn out to be murder.
Robert Carpenter and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine reviewed the deaths of babies under one year old in
families that had already experienced a cot death and that were enrolled on
a support programme that now covers over 90% of the country.
Of 6,373 babies who had been through the Care of Next Infant (Coni)
programme by December 1999, 57 died. Nine of those deaths were inevitable,
they report, and 48 were unexpected. Two families lost two children and 44
lost one. Of the 46 first Coni children, they say, 40 deaths were natural
and the other six were probably homicides: five committed by one or both
parents (two criminally convicted) and one by a babysitter. Of the two
families where a total of three babies died, one family suffered three
natural deaths and the other was a triple homicide, they say.
"Our data suggest that second deaths are not that rare and that the
majority, 80-90%, are natural," says Prof Carpenter. "Families who have
experienced three unexpected deaths also occur."
Prof Carpenter says the study will have included almost all the families in
the country in which there have been two or three sudden, unexpected baby
deaths in recent years. "From the best available data, we believe that the
occurrence of a second or third sudden unexpected death in infancy within a
family, although relatively rare, is in most cases from natural causes."
Two cases of baby deaths were reopened by the authorities after the
researchers investigated, and were reclassified as deliberate killings. One
of them involved one of the two families in which three babies died.
Prof Carpenter says: "For a host of reasons, not the least of which is the
protection of parents from false accusations, it is essential that all
sudden unexpected infant deaths are submitted to a detailed expert
investigation like this study which includes a full family history, clinical
history and paediatric autopsy."
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Quote
Sarah Boseley, health editor
Friday December 31, 2004
The Guardian
Two or three cot deaths in a family should not automatically arouse
suspicions of infanticide, say the authors of the largest study ever carried
out of the unexplained deaths of babies in the UK.
The issue has been particularly controversial in recent years. Trupti Patel
and Sally Clark were both cleared of killing their babies after courts
refused to accept the expert testimony of the paediatrician Professor Sir
Roy Meadow that more than one death was likely to be an unnatural event.
In his book ABC of Child Abuse, Prof Meadow wrote that "two is suspicious
and three murder, unless proved otherwise... is a sensible working rule for
anyone encountering these tragedies."
Research in the Lancet medical journal published today reveals that even
three deaths in one family can occur by natural causes; while a small
proportion of second and third deaths do turn out to be murder.
Robert Carpenter and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine reviewed the deaths of babies under one year old in
families that had already experienced a cot death and that were enrolled on
a support programme that now covers over 90% of the country.
Of 6,373 babies who had been through the Care of Next Infant (Coni)
programme by December 1999, 57 died. Nine of those deaths were inevitable,
they report, and 48 were unexpected. Two families lost two children and 44
lost one. Of the 46 first Coni children, they say, 40 deaths were natural
and the other six were probably homicides: five committed by one or both
parents (two criminally convicted) and one by a babysitter. Of the two
families where a total of three babies died, one family suffered three
natural deaths and the other was a triple homicide, they say.
"Our data suggest that second deaths are not that rare and that the
majority, 80-90%, are natural," says Prof Carpenter. "Families who have
experienced three unexpected deaths also occur."
Prof Carpenter says the study will have included almost all the families in
the country in which there have been two or three sudden, unexpected baby
deaths in recent years. "From the best available data, we believe that the
occurrence of a second or third sudden unexpected death in infancy within a
family, although relatively rare, is in most cases from natural causes."
Two cases of baby deaths were reopened by the authorities after the
researchers investigated, and were reclassified as deliberate killings. One
of them involved one of the two families in which three babies died.
Prof Carpenter says: "For a host of reasons, not the least of which is the
protection of parents from false accusations, it is essential that all
sudden unexpected infant deaths are submitted to a detailed expert
investigation like this study which includes a full family history, clinical
history and paediatric autopsy."
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