32 N.C. App. 33 - State v. Periman’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. ““A finding, as in this case, of the ‘battered child syndrome’ is not an opinion by the doctor as to whether any particular person has done anything, but, as this doctor indicated, ‘it would take thousands of children to have the severity and number and degree of injuries that this child had over the span of time that we had’ by accidental means. In other words, the ‘battered child syndrome’ simply indicates that a child found with the type of injuries outlined above has not suffered those injuries by accidental means. This conclusion is based upon an extensive study of the subject by medical science. The additional finding that the injuries were probably occasioned by someone who is ostensibly caring for the child is simply a conclusion based upon logic and reason. Only someone regularly ‘caring’ for the child has the continuing opportunity to inflict these types of injuries; an isolated contact with a vicious stranger would not result in this pattern of successive injuries stretching through several months.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Wilkerson