Women accused of killing babies: time to stop this targeting

Written by Professor Gloria Moss PhD; FCIPD on October 14, 2023. Posted in Current News

          In October 2022, a baby in the US, Sawyer, died at just eight weeks of age, 34 hours after receiving a series of vaccines.  The police suspected the parents were at fault and the State medical examiner said the death was caused by improper sleeping position – thereby essentially blaming the parents – and refused to order a series of toxicology tests.

The psychiatrist told the mother that she had an “adjustment disorder.”    The mother approached numerous parties to facilitate the conduct of toxicology tests, meeting with rejection on each occasion.  Her Obs and Gynae physician reported that it was “out of his scope of practice”; her primary care physician rejected her view that vaccines could have played a role in her son’s death; and her paediatrician backed this up.

The mother , a nurse, was unrelenting in her quest for testing and four months later she found a  pathologist to conduct the tests.  He reported that the baby’s blood contained 95 micrograms per litre of aluminium and a private toxicologist, hired by the parents, declared that the aluminum level would be toxic for adults and that both the aluminium and antigen levels in the blood were due to the vaccines.  This clearly implicated the vaccines as the cause of the SIDS death.

Earlier evidence                                                                                                                                                          This finding should not have come as a surprise.  Thirty years ago, the vaccine schedule in New Zealandwas changed from the first being at 3 months down to 6 weeks and the incidence of Sudden Infant death syndrome (SIDS) moved with it.   SIDS is the term describing the sudden and unexplained death of an infant aged between one month and one year with the majority of SIDS victims aged between two and four months. Most die during sleep, often between midnight and 6 AM, and have no signs that they suffered.  At around this time, in the 1990s, a Slovak researcher living in Australia, discovered during her testing of baby monitors, that babies were dying soon after receiving vaccines.  This led her to conclude in her 1993 book on vaccinations that they “represent a medical assault on the immune system”.

Fast-forward nearly twenty years to 2011, and we find a peer review journal paper concluded that ‘ Linear regression analysis of unweighted mean IMRs showed a high statistically significant correlation between increasing number of vaccine doses and increasing infant mortality rates, with r = 0.992 (p = 0.0009).’  Simply put, the greater the number of vaccine doses, the greater the infant mortality rate.   Now, a little over ten years later, the founder of Vaccine Safety Research Foundation (vacsafety.org), Steve Kirsch, has highlighted important new evidence.

In a 2021 study presenting an analysis of the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) data from 1990 to 2019 , the conclusion is that “of all reported SIDS cases post-vaccination, 75% occurred within seven days.”   Similarly, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) admitted in another analysis of data from 1997 to 2013 that “for child death reports, 79.4% received [more than] one vaccine on the same day.”

New evidence                                                                                                                                                               In a remarkable Substack article from September 2023, Steve Kirsch carries an interview with a former police detective in a major U.S. city who handled over 250 SIDS investigations over 7 years.  This former detective, known only as ‘Jennifer’, reveals that c.50% of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) occurred within 48 hours of inoculating babies and c.70% within a week of a vaccine being administered to the infant.  What is more, she stated that ‘It’s kind of a common thing for detectives who investigate SIDS deaths to know, at least, SIDS is kind of a false diagnosis”.   This and other evidence leads Kirsch to conclude that the leading cause of SIDS is child vaccination.

Kirsch’s article also reveals the lengths to which the establishment will go in covering this up.  So, we learn that a Forensic Police Detective in Canada, Helen Gus,is in 2023 facing accusations of misconduct for investigating the fact that there was a there was a 2X to 3X increase in SIDS cases between 2020 and 2021 after the Covid vaccines were rolled out, with Gus attempting to establish the Covid vaccination status of mothers whose babies experienced SIDS.   The disciplinary court hearing has been taking place in October 2023 and is likely to extend into 2024.  A number of pro-Gus protesters are present inside and outside of the hearing so the issue is certain to attract attention to the cover-up of the causes of SIDS.

Mention of a cover-up leads us to discuss historical cases where women have been accused across the world of the sudden deaths of infants.

Women forced to shoulder the blame                                                                                                                                  We will focus on six high-profile cases, four involving women in Britain; one in the US and one in Australia.  Note that the evidence that convicted four of the British cases women was presented by paediatrician, Professor Sir Roy Meadows.  We will take these cases in chronological sequence.

Louise Woodward                                                                                                                                                                          This British au pair was found guilty in 1997 in the US of murdering (through shaking) an eight-month old infant, a conviction that was subsequently amended to involuntary manslaughter.  The baby, the son of doctors, had recently been vaccinated and it transpires that ‘shaken baby syndrome’ may be associated/ caused by vaccination.

Donna Anthony                                                                                                                                                                                   This British woman was convicted of the murder of her infant son and daughter (dying respectively at 4 and 11 months) and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998. The prosecution had suggested that she had smothered her son in order to get sympathy from her estranged husband and her appeal against her conviction in 2000 failed.

Sally Clarke                                                                                                                                                                                        In 1999, this solicitor was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of her two sons who died at the age of eight and eleven weeks.  She spent three years in jail and was acquitted in 2003 only after a second appeal admitted new evidence concerning laboratory tests, commissioned by a Home Office pathologist on one of the babies showed “lethal” levels of bacterial infection, indicating the baby’s death may have been due to natural causes.  Judges ruled crucial medical information had not been disclosed during her trial and criticised Sir Roy’s evidence.  She stated at that point that “We are not victorious. There are no winners here. We have all lost out. We simply feel relief that our nightmare is finally at an end.”

In fact, by that time, she had suffered irreparable psychological damage and died following her release from prison in 2007 from excessive alcohol.

Angela Cannings                                                                                                                                                                             This British woman was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in 2002 for the murder of her seven-week old and 18-week old sons in 1991 and 1999 respectively.  Her successful appeal in 2003 was based on two grounds.  The first was that the judge should have taken the case from the jury on the basis that the medical evidence was not capable of proving that the deaths were unnatural.

The second ground was that there was fresh medical and scientific evidence from recent research which demonstrated that three infant deaths in the same family occurred more frequently than the prosecution stated to the jury.  By the time of the appeal, there was further evidence from a half-sister of Cummings who had also had a similar experience with two of her babies although they did not die.   Cummings had been unaware of this relative and she came forward following the original trial but remained anonymous.

A website on clinical negligence and the law concluded that ‘This case demonstrates the [unwarranted] power of expert witnesses’ stating that ‘this is particularly so when cases are being tried by a jury’.

Trupti Patel                                                                                                                                                                                  This qualified pharmacist, resident in Britain since a child, was accused, following prosecution evidence from Professor Sir Roy Meadows, of murdering three of her children.   Two sons had died at the age of fifteen days and two months, and her daughter died at the age of 22 days.  She was finally acquitted in 2003.

A major factor in this was a letter of complaint from the Royal Statistical Society stating that Meadow’s claim that the likelihood of two babies dying from natural causes in the same family was one in 73 million has “no statistical basis“. Other experts added that when genetic and environmental factors were taken into account, the figure was closer to one in 200.

Clark’s father, Frank Lockyer, complained to the GMC, alleging serious professional misconduct on the part of Meadow. The Clark’s father, Frank Lockyer, complained to the doctors’ regulatory body, the General Medical Council (GMC), alleging serious professional misconduct on the part of Meadow.  GMC went on to conclude in July 2005 that Meadow was guilty, but he appealed to the High Court, which in February 2006 ruled in his favour. The GMC appealed to the Court of Appeal, but in October 2006, by a majority decision, the court upheld the ruling that Meadow was not guilty of the GMC’s charge.^[8] The reason offered was that his behaviour in court did not impact his care for his own patients.

Kathleen Folbigg                                                                                                                                                                          In Australia, mother Katherine Folbigg lost her first son in 1989, her second in 1991 at 8 months of age after suffering epileptic seizures that left him blind; her third  with her daughter at age 10 months, and her fourth with her daughter aged 18 months.  Her diary found her blaming herself for the deaths of her four children.

She was sentenced to prison and it was only in 2019 that scientists conducted whole genome sequencing on the children and their mother, that they concluded that Folbigg and her daughters carried a never-before-seen variant of the CALM2 gene.  This regulates the protein calmodulin which plays an important role in regulating sodium, potassium and calcium levels for healthy heart function. Variations can cause cardiac arrhythmia, and the first sign of a problem can be sudden death.  A petition by scientists for an investigation led to an inquiry in 2022 that concluded that

It was only in 2022 that the inquiry concluded that her two sons carried rare variants in the BSN gene (or Bassoon), whose deficiency is known to cause lethal epilepsy in mice.   It also confirmed that Folbigg and her daughters carried the CALM2-G114R variant, and that while it was totally new, a similar variant had been found in an American family, where a 4-year-old boy died suddenly, and his 5-year-old sister suffered a cardiac arrest.  She was released from prison in June 2023 following twenty years in prison.

Lessons                                                                                                                                                           

Many voices have reminded us of the importance of learning from history, most famously perhaps George Santayana, philosopher and novelist, who stated that “Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.”  What are the lesson from the way that women have been targeted with the deaths of infants?   There are many but some of the most important arising from the evidence presented here, concern the following four points:

1.The way in which failures affecting infants within the medical system (for example pharmaceutical products such as vaccinations or lack of medical know-how) will frequently be laid at the door of an innocent third party, often women.

2.The fact that the evidence presented by medical witnesses may be flawed, with the flawed nature of this evidence obscured by the apparent eminence and seniority of the witness

3.The fact that jury trials are not the appropriate means of deliberating over complex medical issues

4.The fact that a woman presiding over the loss of infants may assume blame to herself.

Given the strong evidence for these four points, it would be a severe miscarriage of justice were these not to be taken strongly into account into future trials of women involving the death of infants.

Gloria Moss PhD FCIPD, Professor of Management and Marketing, is the author of around 80 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and her eight books include Light Bulb Moments and the Power of Critical Thinking.   This book can be obtained from [email protected] (where the author can be contacted) or from Amazon.   She will be presenting on the topics covered here at the next Questioning History conference on 4-7 January 2024 and information on that can be obtained from [email protected]

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