State v. Blakney

WEISSBARD, J.A.D.,

dissenting.

Fundamental to the moral values of all people, transcending social, religious and ethnic divides, is the precept that no child should die before its time. It is for that reason, and justifiably so, that child homicides provoke such strong reactions. Such was the case of S.B., who died at the age of six months on September 18, 1999. As the majority opinion explains, the baby had sustained numerous other injuries in his brief life before the fatal head trauma that apparently resulted from shaken-baby syndrome. Even so, and especially so, defendant, the child’s…