title: Abusive head trauma: A perpetrator confesses.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a detailed confession from a perpetrator of Shaken Baby syndrome.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case study.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We present a confession of Shaken Baby syndrome describing how the perpetrator severely injured a 3 year old with repeated bursts of acceleration-deceleration (shaking). The child sustained retinal and intracranial hemorrhage. Details of the confession and circumstances by which it was obtained lead us to believe its accuracy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Accurate perpetrator confessions offer useful windows into realities and pathophysiology of abusive head trauma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
authors.forename: Erica
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shouldice
authors.forename: Alex V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Levin
mesh_terms: D002649:Child Abuse; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D038642:Shaken Baby Syndrome; D014342:Truth Disclosure