Same Doctor Behind Two Wrongly Convicted Shaken Baby Cases in Massachusetts

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Dr. Alice Newton, the Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Child Protection Program, is back in the news. Dr. Newton gained attention in the media in 2014 during the Justina Pelletier medical kidnapping case when she used the designation of “medical child abuse” to take Justina away from her parents. Justina’s parents were not happy with the treatment of Justina, and had sought a second opinion, more consistent with their regular doctor.

In this report from WCVB in Boston, two people who were accused of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” by Dr. Alice Newton have allegedly had their charges dropped after being wrongly convicted on false evidence. Dr. Newton is part of a recently created pediatric specialty that looks for medical child abuse. Some would say that these specialists must find medical abuse to justify their positions, and that they often are quick to make judgments without considering other evidence. (See: Are New Pediatric “Child Abuse Specialists” Causing an Increase in Medical Kidnappings?)

5 Investigates: Same expert behind two dropped shaken baby cases

By Kathy Curran
WCVB.com

Excerpts:

Aisling Brady McCarthy spent more than two years behind bars while charged with murder in the death of 1-year-old Rehma Sabir, but 5 Investigates has found it’s not the first shaken baby allegation by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office that was dropped in the past year.

Geoffrey Wilson of Malden was accused in 2010 of shaking his 6-month-old son, Nathan, to death. But defense experts found Wilson’s son had a rare genetic defect that may have played a role in his death.

Last year the Medical Examiner’s Office changed the manner of death from “homicide” to “cannot be determined” and — more than four years after being charged — the case against him was dropped.

Alice Whittier (Alice) Newton, MD Medical Director, Child Protection Program

The prosecution’s medical expert at the center of both cases was Dr. Alice Newton.

Wilson’s attorney, J.W. Carney, said the case against his client was a “rush to judgment.”

“Geoff Wilson was arrested at the hospital two hours after his child was taken off life support,” Carney said.

The science behind shaken baby diagnoses are being questioned and in some cases thrown out across the country.

“So many questions are being raised about shaken baby syndrome that there are more dismissals of pending cases than there are of new indictments,” Carney said.

Read the full story at wcvb.com

Are New Pediatric “Child Abuse Specialists” Causing an Increase in Medical Kidnappings?

Published on September 14, 2015

6 Comments

Carolyn September 25, 2015 at 2:35 am - Reply

InalienableWrights said:
> Science as a God only ranks a little behind Government as a God.

I have absolute proof that Alice Newton committed perjury. The DA is the one that decides if charges should be filed against her. The DA is never going to charge there star witness. I wonder if she could be civilly sued. That would finish her off.

Julia September 15, 2015 at 1:17 pm - Reply

Think you need to look at recent murdered/silenced/apparent suicide/accidents of  alternative doctors that have been hushed up about the dangers of vaccinations….they attributed sudden infant death and shaken baby syndrome to the horrific side effects of vaccines  – Dr. Jeff Bradstreet; Dr. Hedendal; Dr. Baron Holt; Dr. Teresa Sievers; Dr. Lisa Riley
LOOK THEM UP – DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH11

lynelle September 15, 2015 at 1:17 pm - Reply

Julia said:
> Think you need to look at recent murdered/silenced/apparent suicide/accidents of  alternative doctors that have been hushed up about the dangers of vaccinations….they attributed sudden infant death and shaken baby syndrome to the horrific side effects of vaccines  – Dr. Jeff Bradstreet; Dr. Hedendal; Dr. Baron Holt; Dr. Teresa Sievers; Dr. Lisa Riley
> LOOK THEM UP – DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH11


Hi Julia, We have published a story on that subject here: Is The U.S. Medical Mafia Murdering Alternative Health Doctors Who Have Real Cures Not Approved by the FDA? – See more at: http://healthimpactnews.com/2015/is-the-u-s-medical-mafia-murdering-alternative-health-doctors-who-have-real-cures-not-approved-by-the-fda/

Aileen Dodge September 15, 2015 at 11:02 am - Reply

I just sat through a complete trial where I witnessed Dr. (Quack) Alice Newton commit perjury during her testimony!!! And right after the prosecution rested it’s case the defense Attorney asked for a direct verdict and the judge denied it,  What should have happened was a mistrial should have been called right then and there. But it wasn’t.  I had passed a not to the defense attorney some medical information that Alice Newton had lied about and he left it on his table the ADA in the case walked by took a look at that note realized the gig was up that her witness had lied.  And suddenly had a family emergency where the trial was stalled for over a week.  When the trail resumed a lot of things has changed.  .  I know that during that week the ADA and DR. Newton went through the Medical records and pulled all reference to the family history of the baby’s illness they also pulled the second full scans done at the hospital that show there was no damage to the spleen and that the baby did not show any signs of abuse.  As the rebuttal witness for our expert witness Dr. Newton lied so much stating the baby had bruises all over his left side of his body and that he was so injured that he must have been shaken and thrown.  that he had lost 60 percent of his brain capacity!!!   Yet my sister produced videos of her grandson that showed a two year old who is very smart have perfect vision has no problem walking talking running sharing his toys identifying objects. in fact the last independent evaluation done on this child showed him to be a child that was advanced in his skills as a 2.5 year old child.  Hmmm with having lost 60 percent of his brain capacity?????  REALLY DR. NEWTON!!!!  Then the ADA had the ex foster monster get up and testify that the child was blind and that they tool him to the Zoo and all he could see was the trees!!!! Really well who the hell takes a blind kid to the zoo to see animals?  But Brandon is not blind his vision is 20/30 which is consider perfect for a child his age. SO said the optometrist at his last check up and my sister was there and talk to that doctor.  He even said Brandon didn’t have to wear those goofy glasses you people make him wear when ever he is out in public!!! The Judge had just got done watching the videos my sister had presented which showed Brandon opening his birthday presents for his 2nd birthday and he got a zoo train and he took the elephant out and look at it and said “Look Grammy and elephant”  And then he gave it to her.  He then proceeded to identify every animal and their color too!!!  Well I think that’s pretty good for a child that is supposedly BLIND!!!!  And the judge let this go on.  No one said any thing.  The trial wrapped up and we knew something has happened.  The judge came back with a verdict of guilty for my nephew!!!! He would NEVER hurt his son or any child.  He took care of his first child McKenna when she was colicky and was also taking care of Brandon.  He did the right thing with taking Brandon to the emergency room that night because something was wrong.  Brandon was suffering from a Hydrocephalic condition which does run in our family.  The hospital did not identify this right away and made it a lot worse.  Once it was identify Brandon began to recover quickly.  But Brandon also had problems from birth because he was a Face Chin presentation delivered by an over confident Midwife.  And he was only 33-34 weeks gestation.  That is where all his medical problems began.  But Alice Newton was called in to save Boston Children’s Hospital’s Ass for being sued over all the mistakes they made in the care of BRANDON GREEN.  Who DCF is now going to try and STEAL from my farm by adopting him out to the daughter of the Foster Monster that testify and committed perjury in my Nephews trial!!!   Well we will get it declared a MISTRIAL and JUSTICE WILL BE SERVERED IF IT IS THE LAST THING I DO ON THIS PLANET!!!!

David September 14, 2015 at 4:12 pm - Reply

Admin said:
> Dr. Alice Newton, the Medical Director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Child Protection Program, is back in the news. Dr. Newton gained attention in the media in 2014 during the Justina Pelletier medical kidnapping case when she used the designation of “medical child abuse” to take Justina away from her parents. Justina’s parents were not happy with the treatment of Justina, and had sought a second opinion, more consistent with their regular doctor.
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> In this report from WCVB in Boston, two people who were accused of “Shaken Baby Syndrome” by Dr. Alice Newton have allegedly had their charges dropped after being wrongly convicted on false evidence. Dr. Newton is part of a recently created pediatric specialty that looks for medical child abuse. Some would say that these specialists must find medical abuse to justify their positions, and that they often are quick to make judgments without considering other evidence.

As in the kidnapping of my grandchildren, you will see the same Judges, Case workers, Supervisors, Phys, therapists, ALL on CPS’s pay roll, doing the same thing over and over again, With their immunity and the judges CPS owns, they go ruff shot over everybody, because there is NO ACCOUNTABILITY, no watch dog in place and until this is stopped, you will continue to see more and more kidnapping for the sake of state and fed funding.

InalienableWrights September 14, 2015 at 11:59 am - Reply

Science as a God only ranks a little behind Government as a God.