Given it’s the Federal Election and all, this story will probably be buried somewhere down the back of the newspaper. It probably won’t get a run on the TV news or in radio news bulletins either. But I think you should know about it because I think it’s a shocking case of injustice.

From ABC Online today:

More details at News.com (thanks for the link Evil Cupcakes):

It just so happens that I’m in the middle of reading a book about this subject. It’s journalist and author Caroline Overington’s 2nd novel, I Came To Say Goodbye and while it’s not released until October, I have a preview copy. It’s brilliant.

Caroline knows a lot about shaken baby syndrome. Last year, when I railed against retailer Cotton On for turning child abuse into a smart-arse baby t-shirt slogan with their size 00 jumpsuits featuring and the words “They Shake Me!” emblazoned on them, Caroline wrote this for The Punch:

I am aghast at how someone who has been found guilty of injuring a baby so severely that he has brain damage and is partially blind could be considered by a judge as a suitable person to help take care of that baby. How is this possible?