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Samuel Roy Meadow (né en 1933) est un pédiatre britannique. Il est connu pour avoir pris position sur les parents maltraitants en ces termes : « une mort subite d'enfant est une tragédie, deux morts c'est suspect et trois c'est un meurtre, jusqu'à preuve du contraire. » Cette position a exercé une grande influence sur les services sociaux et les organismes de protection infantile en Angleterre. (fr) Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (born 9 June 1933) is a British retired paediatrician. He was awarded the Donald Paterson prize of the British Paediatric Association in 1968 for a study of the effects on parents of having a child in hospital. In 1977, he published an academic paper describing a phenomenon dubbed Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP). In 1980 he was awarded a professorial chair in paediatrics at St James's University Hospital, Leeds, and in 1998, he was knighted for services to child health. His work became controversial, particularly arising from the consequences of a belief he stated in a book, ABC of Child Abuse, that, in a single family, "one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder, until proved otherwise". This became known as "Meadow's Law" and was influential in the thinking of UK social workers and child protection agencies, such as the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Meadow's reputation was severely damaged after his appearances as an expert witness for the prosecution in several trials played a crucial part in wrongful convictions for murder. Despite having fundamental misunderstandings of statistics he presented himself as an expert in the field. The British General Medical Council (GMC) struck him from the British Medical Register after he was found to have offered erroneous and misleading evidence in the trial of Sally Clark, who was wrongly convicted of the murder of her two baby sons. Clark's conviction was overturned in 2003 but she never recovered from the experience, and died in 2007 from acute alcohol poisoning. Clark's father, Frank Lockyer, complained to the GMC, alleging serious professional misconduct on the part of Meadow. The GMC concluded in July 2005 that Meadow was guilty, but he appealed to the High Court, which in February 2006 ruled in his favour. The GMC appealed to the Court of Appeal, but in October 2006, by a majority decision, the court upheld the ruling that Meadow was not guilty of the GMC's charge. (en) Roy Meadow (Wigan (Lancashire), 9 juni 1933) is een Brits professor in de kindergeneeskunde. Hij studeerde aan de Universiteit van Oxford (Worcester College) Hij is de ontdekker van het Münchhausen by proxy syndroom (in het Engels afgekort tot MSbP), een afwijking waarbij ouders hun kind mishandelen om zelf aandacht te krijgen. Ook was Sir Roy Meadow tientallen jaren getuige-deskundige in rechtszaken waarin ouders van onverwachts overleden kinderen terechtstonden. In 2003 kwam hij in opspraak omdat op basis van zijn getuigenissen mogelijk honderden of duizenden ouders voor moord op hun kind zijn veroordeeld, terwijl het in werkelijkheid om een natuurlijke dood was gegaan. (nl) Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (Wigan, 1933) é um pediatra aposentado, conhecido por haver identificado a síndrome de Münchhausen por procuração (durante algum tempo chamada de "síndrome de Meadow") e por haver falhado na análise estatística no julgamento de Sally Clark que, parcialmente por conta disso, foi injustamente condenada. (pt) |
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Samuel Roy Meadow (né en 1933) est un pédiatre britannique. Il est connu pour avoir pris position sur les parents maltraitants en ces termes : « une mort subite d'enfant est une tragédie, deux morts c'est suspect et trois c'est un meurtre, jusqu'à preuve du contraire. » Cette position a exercé une grande influence sur les services sociaux et les organismes de protection infantile en Angleterre. (fr) Roy Meadow (Wigan (Lancashire), 9 juni 1933) is een Brits professor in de kindergeneeskunde. Hij studeerde aan de Universiteit van Oxford (Worcester College) Hij is de ontdekker van het Münchhausen by proxy syndroom (in het Engels afgekort tot MSbP), een afwijking waarbij ouders hun kind mishandelen om zelf aandacht te krijgen. Ook was Sir Roy Meadow tientallen jaren getuige-deskundige in rechtszaken waarin ouders van onverwachts overleden kinderen terechtstonden. In 2003 kwam hij in opspraak omdat op basis van zijn getuigenissen mogelijk honderden of duizenden ouders voor moord op hun kind zijn veroordeeld, terwijl het in werkelijkheid om een natuurlijke dood was gegaan. (nl) Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (Wigan, 1933) é um pediatra aposentado, conhecido por haver identificado a síndrome de Münchhausen por procuração (durante algum tempo chamada de "síndrome de Meadow") e por haver falhado na análise estatística no julgamento de Sally Clark que, parcialmente por conta disso, foi injustamente condenada. (pt) Sir Samuel Roy Meadow (born 9 June 1933) is a British retired paediatrician. He was awarded the Donald Paterson prize of the British Paediatric Association in 1968 for a study of the effects on parents of having a child in hospital. In 1977, he published an academic paper describing a phenomenon dubbed Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP). In 1980 he was awarded a professorial chair in paediatrics at St James's University Hospital, Leeds, and in 1998, he was knighted for services to child health. (en) |
