A Robot Is Helping Teach The Prevention Of Shaken Baby Syndrome

An Onslow County nonprofit is using a robot to show parents the dangers of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

Onslow County’s PEERS Family Development Center in Jacksonville is working with parents to highlight what areas of a child’s brain are injured when they shake their baby. Experts said the damage done to a child’s brain can be instantaneous and irreversible.

PEERS demonstrates this through Crystal Clear. Crystal is a robotic newborn who is able to feel and pinpoint exactly where damage is happening to her robotic brain as a person shakes her. This technology is used in many parenting and child care classes offered at PEERS.

“People generally grab their child like this and shake,” said Kristin David, an adolescent parenting program coordinator. “And with that little bit of shaking her vision is damaged and that’s the part of her brain that’s lighting up. And she’s still crying so if you’re mad you shake again. And now she has total brain damage because of that shake.”

The center was able to get Crystal with the help of various grants they have received.

This article was originally published by WCTI12.com.

Scott Juceam is one of the leading advocates against Shaken Baby Syndrome. Scott’s life changed when his daughter Hannah was shaken to death by her nanny in 2006. Since then, Scott has dedicated his life to preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome and child abuse.

To learn more about me, please visit my website at www.ScottJuceam.com or you can click here.

Galesburg Man To Serve 6 Years For Shaking A Baby

A Galesburg man received the minimum sentence late last week for bouncing an infant on his knee without supporting her neck and head.

Austin M. Mitchener, 21, formerly of East North Street, was sentenced late Friday morning by Circuit Judge Paul Mangieri to six years in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

That followed his conviction earlier this year during an all-day bench trial before Judge Mangieri who found the man guilty of Class X felony aggravated battery to a child, which carried the maximum of 30 years in prison.

Mitchener was given credit for 408 days already served in the Knox County jail and his sentence is to be served at 85 percent. That means Mitchener will likely serve about four years or so in the IDOC to be followed by three years of parole.

The Galesburg man also was ordered to pay $187 in court costs and fines.

Mitchener was found guilty of bouncing a child who was about 7 weeks old at the time of the June 2017 incident “on his lap without supporting the (victim’s) neck, causing blood and swelling on the brain and/or seizures and/or shaken baby syndrome,” court documents said.

Defense attorney Jeremy Karlin has previously called the case “tragic.”

This article was originally published by Galesburg.com.

Scott Juceam is one of the leading advocates against Shaken Baby Syndrome. Scott’s life changed when his daughter Hannah was shaken to death by her nanny in 2006. Since then, Scott has dedicated his life to preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome and child abuse.

To learn more about me, please visit my website at www.ScottJuceam.com or you can click here.

Nebraska DHHS Fights Shaken Baby Syndrome

Between 2010 and 2016, eleven babies died in Nebraska as a result of Shaken Baby Syndrome.

A newly launched campaign run by the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services wants to reduce that number to zero. Program coordinator Jackie Moline says Shaken Baby Syndrome should never happen.

Moline says the Abusive Head Trauma/ Shaken Baby Syndrome campaign seeks to get state hospitals to educate patients and staff about the syndrome. According to Moline, many cases are brought on by frustration.

Moline says 11 hospitals in the state have already pledged to work to reduce shaken baby syndrome.

This article was originally published by WNAX.com.

Scott Juceam is one of the leading advocates against Shaken Baby Syndrome. Scott’s life changed when his daughter Hannah was shaken to death by her nanny in 2006. Since then, Scott has dedicated his life to preventing Shaken Baby Syndrome and child abuse.

To learn more about me, please visit my website at www.ScottJuceam.com or you can click here.