Looking at bones can tell us about current and former injuries that someone, such as a child, has sustained. But looking at bones only shows that something happened, a what happened, which indicates a how it could possibly have happened, but not a why it did happen. Bones only tell part of the story, not all of it.
X-rays allowed doctors to see inside a body, rather than looking at bones or someone who is dead to see what injuries they've had. The discovery of x-rays has led to the formation of a group of doctors that claims to be able to find child abuse that no one else can see. After decades of arguing about their "expertise", the public finally accepted it and the the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974 (CAPTA) came into fruition. This led to the formation of Child "Protective" Services, or as I like to call them: the Child Procurement Syndicate.
Dr. C. Henry Kempe is the founding father of the movement to diagnose child abuse, with his paper The Battered-Child Syndrome published in 1962. This sets the foundational framework and theory to support the development of the Child Abuse Pediatrician guild of doctors. It was crafted to also help bypass any detractors and alternative explanations that stray from the "expert" diagnoses of these "specialists".
There is also Dr. John Patrick Caffey who trained in internal medicine and pediatrics. After going to a radiology conference taught by a pathologist, Caffey lamented to the Babies Hospital’s chief of pediatrics where he worked about "another hour wasted", and was soon placed in charge of the hospital’s radiology department in 1929. The Society for Pediatric Radiology says:
He began to realize that the field was wide open for a physician of scholarly bent and pediatric background, and he seized his opportunity. He rapidly taught himself the range of normal appearances and the plain-film manifestations of children’s diseases.
He defined what was normal for children in his Pediatric X-Ray Diagnosis textbook in 1945. The following year he wrote about 6 cases of infants with subdural hematomas and multiple long bone fractures. Brain bleeding is the top "symptom" of child abuse, and automatically places a child as being abused, with parents accused of wrong doing. Broken bones are also seen as evidence for child abuse, even if the child has bone fragility.
Caffey was instrumental is forging the roots of pediatric radiologists being the 'experts' in child abuse:
Caffey established himself, and the discipline of paediatric radiology, as radical, innovative and unafraid to draw what were, for this period, bold conclusions about child maltreatment.
Authority in diagnosing the physical mistreatment of children by adults was thus concentrated within the professions of paediatrics and radiology.
Building on Caffey’s early work, these professions consolidated their status as ‘experts’ in managing child battering in both Britain and America over the following 20 years
in 1953, Dr. Frederick Silverman, who was Caffey's junior assistant before becoming the Director of the Division of Roentgenolgy at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, published The Roentgen Manifestations of Unrecognized Skeletal Trauma in Infants, stating:
... parents may 'permit trauma and be unaware of it, may recognize trauma but forget or be reluctant to admit it, or may deliberately injure the child and deny it'.
Caffey would later join Silvernman at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Silverman also later collaborated with Kempe on his paper The Battered-Child Syndrome.
Another founder of the pediatric radiologists and the "child abuse pediatrician" field is Dr. Edward Neuhauser, where in 1949 he "established the world’s first regular pediatric radiology fellowship".
As pediatric radiology grew, so too was the concern over x-ray radiation. An elite meeting of 9 pediatric radiologists was held in the name of the American Roentgen Ray Society in Washington, DC in 1958. There was no printed agenda. The Society of Pediatric Radiology would be formed that day. The second time they met, more physicians were invited. Of the 33 who attended, 11 of them would later become presidents of the society.
Rules were set up for the society and meetings:
...individuals with a primary interest in pediatric radiology and should be limited to 100.
Part or all of the meeting should be closed to everyone but members and contributing guests.
It was all hush hush and for the elite only, much like the Bilderberg meetings in our present days where plans are made without anyone else knowing what's really going on. Then came the famous Kempe paper on The Battered-Child Syndrome in 1962, setting the foundation for the new "specialists". In 1962 Kempe worked with the Helfer Society founder, Dr. Ray E. Helfer ,on a book entitled The Battered Child. The Helfer Society is elite group of child abuse pediatricians founded in 1999.
All of these foundations are built around x-rays allegedly being able to tell the story of child abuse, without question, and only the "experts" in pediatric radiology being able to diagnose child injuries to conclude if abuse did or didn't happen. It was a magic bullet for social workers and lawyers to be single-minded on going after alleged child abusers, namely parents. Disagreeing doctors would be discredited in favor of the substantiating the "expert" opinions to support child abuse accusations.
But x-rays are just tools to diagnose injuries. They are not objective measures of whether a child was or wasn't abused. They can and should/must be used alongside other evidence, but are not the one-and-only evidence to consider.
... radiologists were particularly successful in negotiating themselves a key role in the identification of child battering….
In Britain, the publication of ‘The Battered Child Syndrome’ saw radiologists seek to direct funding and resources to their increasingly expensive profession. [Source]
Now we have various child abuse societies that rely on funding and derive power and prestige in society and over parents, children and families. They are considered the dominant "primary diagnostic agent[s]" and "experts" that no one else is qualified to challenge on matters of child abuse, even other doctors who have valid evidence to counter those claims. They now have created a demand that they claim only they can fulfill, securing a steady flow of federal funds and donations from non-profits, for a "medical field" that kidnaps children from many parents who did nothing wrong.
References:
- History of Shaken Baby Theories Exposed: How an Elite Group of Pediatric Radiologists Started Medical Kidnapping in the 1940s
- SPR's Early Years and Foundation
- The bones tell a story the child is too young or too frightened to tell’: The Battered Child Syndrome in Post-war Britain and America
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