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A Florida woman was charged with the first-degree murder of her former ward, who died in 2019 at the age of 35. Forensic experts testified that Benjamin Dowling's death had been linked to the shaken baby syndrome he experienced under Terry McKirchy, the babysitter who cared for him when he was 5-months-old.
In 1984, McKirchy was hired to look after Dowling. The baby's mother took him to a doctor when she noticed that he had breathing difficulties and his body was limp. The doctor told the family that the baby had severed blood vessels in his brain due to being shaken with such a force.