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Exactly. I can relate. I am like you, and I was once suspected of shaking my nanny (the nanny would later be prosecuted before being cleared after 4 years). Aft
by rossant 2y ago
Exactly. I can relate. I am like you, and I was once suspected of shaking my nanny (the nanny would later be prosecuted before being cleared after 4 years). After the interview with social services, where they said with a smile "everything would be okay", they wrote I had a one stringed voice, showed little emotion and didn't cry while talking. They wrote it was suspicious of abuse and used that to recommend removing my 5 month old baby for a couple of years. The judge followed. That's the most devastating thing I ever had to endure. I was lucky enough that the lawyer was so pissed off by this that he fought like hell to bring us our baby back in less than a month. But that specific episode made me swear on my child that I would spend the rest of my life undoing this wrong somehow. I'm still here 8 years later.
- renewiltord 2y ago> I was once suspected of shaking my nanny Ah, by my nanny. I didn't understand this sentence at first.
- rossant 2y agoWoops sorry. No, "my baby"!
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoHey, I think you had an article where you described your ordeal, no?
- rossant 2y agoYes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37650402
- YeGoblynQueenne 2y agoThanks. I was missing that from my bookmarks on SBS. Speaking of my SBS bookmarks, this is one of the latest: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/durham-woman-caned-son-3-murder-jailed-life-christina-robinson-dwelaniyah https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/24/durh... Christina Robinson (coincidence!) was found guilty of shaking her son to death and jailed for life. She admitted meting out corporal punishment, including caning and other instances of child abuse. It seems that after reading about a number of SBS cases my innate reflex of assuming that historic child abuse is evidence of murder has completely dissolved and I must look even at cases like this one with skepticism. What do you think? Edit: to be perfectly clear: I grew up with constant corporeal punishment by parents and teachers and I consider the practice abhorrent. But the same people who beat me up for misbehaving, horribly misguided though they were in thinking that's a way to raise a child, were not murderers and would never have gone as far as to cause life-threatening injury. I think this experience also colours my perception of cases like Christina Robinson. There's a sliding slope reasoning in many of those accusations that is very dangerous.