Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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 at home in bed at three months, and a similar fate befell another son, Noah, who was her last- born child...
Doctors were mystified and intrigued. A pediatrician who had closely monitored the last two children wrote up the family's history in a 1972 medical journal as a classic example of how sudden infant death syndrome (or SIDS) can run in families. As for Hoyt, she 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...
...What finally led to her arrest was the two-decades-old medical article in Pediatrics. Fitzpatrick first read the paper eight years ago while preparing an infanticide case in order to familiarize himself with possible causes of SIDS. In the report, Dr. Alfred Steinschneider, now president of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute in Atlanta, proposed that a genetic defect could cause prolonged apnea, or breaks in breathing during a baby's sleep, and lead to SIDS. He bolstered his thesis with detailed accounts of the death of five babies in one unidentified family. Medical examiner Linda Norton, who passed...
Cases like Hoyt's and Tinning's, as well as the increasing awareness of child abuse in the U.S., have led law-enforcement and medical authorities to call for a more aggressive approach to investigating infant deaths. Most states now require an autopsy for all babies who die unexpectedly. Before a diagnosis of SIDS can be made, an examination of the scene of death and a review of the child's medical history are made. SIDS experts are calling for standardized protocols to guide such investigations...
...bomber- style, with stickers representing rafts saved -- Domaniewicz's alone boasts 32. The Brothers, founded in 1991 by two Cuban-American veterans of the Bay of Pigs invasion, have rescued a total of 1,286 men, women and children; the oldest was 77, the youngest a five-day-old infant. Last year, as economic conditions worsened in Cuba, the number of rafters rose to 3,656 -- the highest since the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Often the rafts are empty: by some estimates, 1 in 4 balseros die -- and the rescuers themselves are not without risk. Three Brothers have crashed; all lived...