XPost: bc.politics, can.politics   
   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   Robert Latimer was convicted of "euthanasia" of his daughter Tracy who had   
   Cerebral Palsy. According to the online encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the causes   
   of Cerebral Palsy are mostly unknown but might include physical brain injury   
   and/or shaken baby syndrome.   
      
   I know there are a lot of macho guys who would not hesitate to get into a   
   scrap with another macho guy. These very same macho guys would almost   
   reflexively give an annoying child a good swat on the back of the head to   
   "smarten them up" a bit.   
      
   I'm not up on the science of child abuse. Have there been any studies to   
   determine how frequently or how forcefully a child can be swatted on the   
   back of the head with a father's hand before (after a period of years), that   
   child's brain began to show early signs of brain damage?   
      
   They say that radioactivity is dangerous and that no level of radioactivity   
   is safe. Even on that there is some debate, perhaps justifiably so. What   
   about childhood brain damage? How many brain swats can a child's head take   
   before damage shows up on brain scans, 5, 50, 100, 500, 1000?   
      
   I don't know the answer to this question but it is an important question. I   
   need to determine if one on my family belongs in prison.   
      
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