Expert witness backs ‘shaken baby’ theory at Yokosuka court-martial

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Expert witness backs ‘shaken baby’ theory at Yokosuka court-martial
By Allison Batdorff, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Thursday, January 17, 2008

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — An expert witness called the death of Kylie Delgado a “clean” and “straightforward” case of fatal child abuse.

The 2-month-old was a healthy, “smiling, interacting” baby and “the next morning she was dead,” said Capt. Tamara Grigsby, a child abuse pediatrician who testified Tuesday at the court-martial of the baby’s father at Yokosuka Naval Base.

Seaman Recruit Jonathan Delgado is accused of shaking his infant daughter to death on July 15, 2006, in the Misawa Air Base apartment he shared with his active-duty wife.

Delgado, 22, says he didn’t harm the infant and that he awoke to find the baby “cold” and “blue” beside him on the bed where he and the baby were sleeping.

His defense counsel maintains the child died of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.


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