Apr 6, 2012
Nightmare Turned Tragedy
There is nothing, and I mean nothing worse than watching your child suffer with a serious illness -- except being falsely accused of having abused them. The story of the murder-suicide of Tiffany and David O'Shell after they were falsely accused of abusing their baby daughter is gut wrenching. It turned out she suffered from a rear genetic condition that caused her bones to break easily.
This a really egregious example of how parents are deemed guilty until proven innocent. It should be a wake-up call for us to take a long hard look at the institutional consequences of rampant parental determinism an its human cost.
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