Twenty-two months of unproductive diagnostic procedures took place in a hospital in England to establish the reason behind a baby's breathing problem. The staff hid a video camera in the infant's hospital room. Sixteen hours passed as a nurse and local police officer monitored the camera while the baby slept with only his mother at his side. The infant's mother then proceeded to move her chair away from the child's cot. She slowly placed a T-shirt on the bed close to the baby's face. After five minutes had passed, she continued to place the shirt over his nose and mouth and forced the infant's head down onto the bed. Immediately, the child awoke and struggled violently. Ten seconds later, the watching police officer alerted the nurses who in turn, ran into the cubicle. By legal standards, the police officer had mediated too soon because of her own anguish for what she had seen. So she determined that she would proceed with her surveillance. After twenty minutes the infant was sleeping on his side and the mother was again alone with him in the room. She placed the child on his back with his arms placed under the cot.…
