Homicide and the Baby-Sitter
作者:
Jay Dix,
期刊:
The American Journal of Forensic Medicine and Pathology
(OVID Available online 1998)
卷期:
Volume 19,
issue 4
页码: 321-323
ISSN:0195-7910
年代: 1998
出版商: OVID
关键词: Sudden infant death syndrome;Homicide;Asphyxiation;Infanticide;Suffocation;Pediatric forensic pathology;Confession;Murder;Conviction;Natural death versus homicide
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
Two babies were smothered by their baby-sitter. The deaths happened 4 years apart. The baby-sitter was convicted based on a confession, not on the findings at autopsy. These cases illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing SIDS from suffocation homicide.
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