Friday 29 February 2008

Childminder Keran Henderson jailed for shaking baby to death in a fit of temper

"Medical experts told the court that the child’s fatal brain injuries could only have been caused by a shaking so violent that it caused her neck to snap back and forth"

Source - The Times
"A childminder was jailed for three years yesterday for shaking an 11-month-old baby to death. Keran Henderson, 42, collapsed in the dock as a jury at Reading Crown Court convicted her of killing Maeve Sheppard in a fit of temper. The infant was taken to hospital critically ill in March 2005, but her life-support machine was switched off two days later, after a bedside christening" Continued here

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