Baby Shaking Trial Acquitted Mother September 25, 12:44
Four years ago, in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, the Gifu District Court said, "Shaking" to a mother who was accused of causing a serious injury that left a serious aftereffect in her brain by shaking the body of her eldest son, who was three months old. There remains a reasonable suspicion that it is the cause, "he said.
In May 2016, Akane Asano (27), who lives in Gifu Prefecture, shook the body of his eldest son, who was three months old, in an apartment in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture, and injured him with serious aftereffects in his brain. I was accused of injury.
At the trial, the prosecutor's office said that the eldest son had symptoms such as subdural hematoma even though he had no head trauma, and that he was suspected of being shaken violently. I have been sentenced to 5 years.
Meanwhile, the defense pleaded not guilty, saying that the injury was due to a fall from the sofa.
In a ruling on the 25th, Gifu District Court Judge Hiroaki Deguchi said, "We cannot deny the possibility that the fall from the sofa caused a shock to the brain. There remains reasonable doubt that the cause is shaking." Condemned as innocent.
In recent years, courts across the country have been acquitted in cases where parents and others were suspected of being abused because their infants were shaken and their brains were seriously injured.