Shaken Baby Syndrome SBS also known as abusive head trauma is caused by a quiet number of things such as a blow to the head of a minor, dropping, throwing and violently shaking a child. In the United States of America, Shaken Baby Syndrome is considered as child abuse because this has cause death in many children between the ages of zero to five years old. Violently shaking of minor's can cause their brain to swell, which leads to internal bleeding of the brain, detachment of the retinas causing blindness at an early stage, mental retardation, and death. According to the Center for Disease control (CDC) Shaken Baby Syndrome is brutal physical child abuse caused from viciously shaking a child by the shoulders, arms and legs
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