When A Child Dies

When a child dies there is a great desire to find the guilty party, even if there isn't one. From ProPublica, in collaboration with NBR and Frontline on PBS:

We analyzed nearly two dozen cases in the United States and Canada in which people have been accused of killing children based on flawed or biased work by forensic pathologists, and then later cleared.

Some spent years in prison before courts overturned their convictions. In 2004, San Diego prosecutors moved to dismiss charges against a man who'd been imprisoned for two decades for murdering his girlfriend's son.

Others were freed more swiftly but endured hardships nonetheless. An El Paso, Texas, jury acquitted a woman of killing her child in 2010, but after spending 22 months in the county jail, she still had to wage a legal battle to regain custody of her other children.

After writing about Conrad Black, I ran across this article. No one is a villain here, just mistakes being made from the best of intentions.