Accused of inducing the infamous Shaken Baby Syndrome, Veronica Martinez Salcedo is a 38 year old nanny who has been held in the Placer County, CA jail since May, 2006, charged with the second degree murder of 15 month old Hannah Rose Juceam. Her first trial lasted six months, and ended in a mistrial due to a hung jury. On 12/10/07, the Placer County District Attorney announced that she will be re-tried in April, 2008. Mrs. Salcedo has steadfastly maintained her innocence and has rejected plea bargains. Meanwhile, the father of the deceased child has waged a widely advertised campaign in a not so veiled attempt to deny Mrs. Salcedo her rights to due process and presumption of innocence, through the use of donation-financed billboards and a purportedly educational website:
http://www.dontshakeyourbaby.com/,
Partnerships with local law enforcement agencies and child advocacy groups are claimed. Her supporters suspect that Mrs. Salcedo, a widowed mother of two children, has been irresponsibly and erroneously accused of murder; and scapegoated, if you will, largely due to her illegal immigrant and indigent status. Further educational information regarding the problematic and controversial "Shaken Baby Syndrome," can be found at:
http://www.sbsdefense.com/ http://www.truthinjustice.org/ http://www.vran.org/vaccines/sbs/sbs-flawed.htmhttp://www.jpands.org/vol9no3/uscinski.pdfhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=503562&in_page_id=1879Please sign this petition which will be delivered to local and state officials in order to see that justice is served in the Placer County Superior Court trial of Veronica Martinez Salcedo, whom many believe has been erroneously accused of and charged with causing the unfortunate and untimely death of Hannah Rose Juceam.
