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MEDICINE: When Is Crib Death a Cover for Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...cruel roulette of life, Waneta Hoyt seemed to be an especially tragic loser. Nearly 30 years ago, she lost her first child, Erik, suddenly and inexplicably. The mother tearfully told doctors that she found him barely breathing in his crib and could not revive him. He was three months old. Waneta's second child, James, was a little over two when, according to his mother, he called out after breakfast one morning and expired. A daughter, Julie, died at 48 days; her mother was feeding the child when the infant choked, turned blue and died. Another daughter, Molly, died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is Crib Death a Cover for Murder? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...went on to adopt a son, who is now 17. But she never forgot her dead offspring. She kept their photos throughout the house and laid flowers on their graves every Memorial Day. "She'd say, 'I miss my children. They all died on me -- you know, that crib disease,' " recalls Martha Nestle, a family friend. "Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Is Crib Death a Cover for Murder? | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...worth calculating the cost of such support. For now, however, there is a symbolic triumph in preventing children from being written off the moment their umbilical cords are cut. And something more than symbolism is occurring in Holland's apartment in Washington's dangerous Northeast neighborhood. A crib stands by the front door; its tenant is holding out her little arms and smiling widely, eyes as big as chestnuts. Holland scoops her up. "I love being a mother now," she says. In her mother's arms, Courtney Rosia-Lee Holland laughs delightedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mother-and-Child Reunion | 1/24/1994 | See Source »

Strangled on loop of crib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toy-Related Deaths | 12/13/1993 | See Source »

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