Homicide and the baby-sitter.
Two babies were smothered by their baby-sitter. The deaths happened 4 years apart. The baby-sitter was convicted based on a confession, not on the findings at autopsy. These cases illustrate the difficulty in distinguishing SIDS from suffocation homicide.
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Department of Pathology, University of Missouri-Columbia, 65212, USA.
D000293:Adolescent; D001237:Asphyxia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D017028:Caregivers; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007237:Infanticide; D008297:Male; D013398:Sudden Infant Death / Q000175:diagnosis