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So... i was wondering if there was any research on the affect being in a truck had on children... especially newborn babies... does it affect their growth at all, or cause imbalance issues? has there been research on this?
thanx
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In 1992 I had a couple that against my advice took a 3 week old baby in the truck. It died at about 2 months old. Shaking syndrome,was diagnosed.
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Is that baby only going to sleep when the truck is stopped? Otherwise, how are you going to be certain that the baby is ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS properly buckled down when that truck is moving????
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Here ya go
Heres a link to the news page!!!
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/...shakenbaby28.html
14 years later, dad booked in death of baby daughter
Pat Shannahan/The Arizona Republic
Julie Dunn visits Glendale Memorial Park where her daughter, Rebecka Anne, is buried. She was only 7 weeks old when she died 14 years ago Monday. No charges were filed at the time, but police opened the case a year ago.
Brent Whiting
The Arizona Republic
Oct. 28, 2003 12:01 AM
Rebecka Anne Dunn, a 7-week-old Glendale girl, died in 1989 under troubling circumstances: Did she simply stop breathing? Or could she have been the victim of a deadly shaking?
For years, the medical questions haunted police and the girl's mother.
On Monday, 14 years to the day of the baby's death, Glendale police announced they had arrested the girl's father.
Leroy Clyde Dunn, 32, a truck driver,was booked on counts of first-degree murder and child abuse, Glendale police Detective Brian Wilkins said.
Dunn, who apparently has been living in his truck, was taken into custody Sunday when he was found in Phoenix.
The arrest had been long awaited by Julie M. Dunn, 32, Rebecka's mother and the suspect's former wife.
"I'm ecstatic," Julie Dunn said as she visited her daughter's Glendale gravesite. "I thank Glendale police from the bottom of my heart for reopening this case."
Dunn, a West Valley resident, said she has prayed for justice, especially a year ago when Bruce Foremny, a homicide detective, told her that Glendale police were taking a new look at the cold case.
Dunn said there's hardly a day she doesn't think of "Becka," whom she described as a quiet, though sickly, baby.
Wilkins said that several suspicious injuries were noted during an autopsy.
However, the medical examiner who performed the autopsy said the injuries may have resulted from giving cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the infant, Wilkins said.
Julie Dunn said her ex-husband has said he was taking care of the girl when she stopped breathing. She said he claimed he performed CPR in a failed attempt to save her life.
Wilkins said that since 1989 medical research into shaken-baby syndrome shows that CPR would not cause such severe injuries. Police believe Rebecka was so badly injured that only a car wreck or a violent shaking could have led to her death on Oct. 27, 1989.
An estimated 1,300 shaken-baby cases occur each year throughout the nation, said Amy Wicks, a spokeswoman for the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, based in Ogden, Utah. CPR defenses have been raised by suspects across the country, she said.
Over the years, police, prosecutors and doctors have become more sophisticated in dealing with shaken-baby syndrome, Wicks said.
Experts say that severe shakings can cause brain damage as a baby's head snaps on weak neck muscles.
Such a shaking of a small child always ends badly, experts say. The brain is bruised. Blood vessels tear. The head swells. Sometimes a baby's limbs are fractured from flopping back and forth.
One of every four shaken babies dies. Most survivors suffer brain damage that can lead to mental retardation, seizures, blindness and paralysis.
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