Vaccine Death: Alan Yurko accused of SBS - Court Case in Florida

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This is an extremely important case relating to a man who has been unfairly jailed and accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome because of the death of his premature infant son from a 'hot lot' vaccine cocktail (6 in 1). Alan Yurko is supported by over 200 medical doctors and scientists worldwide. See progress of court case 23/8/04 and 24/8/04 below. Shall keep you updated on this crucial case. Below is an article I wrote from Homeopathy in Practice, January 2003, giving the full background story.

SHAKEN BABY SYNDROME
By Louise Mclean

On 24th February 1999, after 3 days testimony, Alan Raymond Yurko was found guilty of aggravated child abuse and first degree murder of the death of his infant son Alan Joseph., and sentenced to life imprisonment. Case No. CR98-1730 of the State of Florida vs. Alan Raymond Yurko was heard with a jury of six witnesses (all doctors) for the State and only one witness for the defence. Relevant information crucial to the decision was neither presented nor explored and it was apparent that had the parents of Baby Alan received adequate professional medical advice, they may have prevented the death of their infant son.

Baby Alan was born prematurely at 35 weeks on 16th September, 1997. His mother Francine had suffered health problems during the pregnancy including gestational diabetes, urinary and vaginal infections, E coli infection, had been treated with antibiotics and had also lost significant weight during her pregnancy.

The infant weighing 5 lb. 8 oz at birth was suffering respiratory distress, placed in intensive care and given antibiotics. As well as showing decreased muscle tone and activity, the baby developed jaundice, severe hypoxia (deficiency of oxygen in the tissues), acidosis, dehydration, hypoglycemia and reduced renal function. Despite continuing to experience respiratory problems with grunting and breathlessness, continuing jaundice, wind, painful bowel movements and bloated stomach, on 11th November 1997 Baby Alan received a cocktail of six vaccines. These were diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, haemaphilus influenza B, oral polio and hepatitis B.

Approximately 10 days later, Baby Alan exhibited lethargy, irritability, no appetite, fever and developed a high pitched cry. By 24th November, 1997, Baby Alan began wheezing, vomiting and stopped breathing. Alan rushed him to Florida�s Orlando hospital, giving mouth to mouth resuscitation all the way. On arrival at the hospital the baby had turned blue. Somehow Alan pushed his way in and watched doctors insert a large tube down the baby�s throat pumping air into his stomach, which blew up like a beach ball. A doctor shouted �wrong tube, wrong tube!� This procedure was repeated, again with Baby Alan�s stomach ballooning up. They then put a huge needle in his chest and got the shock pads.

Finally he started to breathe again. Alan and Francine were ecstatic. The doctors decided the baby must be moved to a larger hospital with a special breathing machine because they thought he was septic.

It was at this second hospital that baby Alan eventually died. Alan and Francine were not allowed in to see what was happening to him but waited and waited outside. A doctor came out and told them quite simply that Alan was going to die, that he had broken ribs and his brain was bleeding.

The police immediately came and arrested Alan Yurko, who was accused of �Shaken Baby Syndrome�. Alan says �Because we could not explain his injuries and because I was the last adult alone with him, I was charged with aggravated child abuse and first degree murder. We could not afford counsel; our lawyers were public defenders (for the State of Florida)�.

There has been a huge increase in �Shaken Baby Syndrome� cases in the US. According to the Idaho Observer of 11th July 2002, �This country has already imprisoned hundreds, maybe thousands of innocent parents convicted of SBS. SBS has replaced Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) as a leading cause of infant mortality�. �SBS identifies a perpetrator, whereas SIDS deaths are allegedly mysterious. The one factor that ties SBS and SIDS together is vaccines. The truth is that most SBS convictions can be demonstrated to be a cover for medical malpractice and/or murder by injection of childhood vaccines.�

It was only much later that Alan and his wife Francine discovered one of the vaccines given to Baby Alan � DTAP � was from a batch of �Hot Lot� vaccines. The batch DTAP 7H81507, made by Connaught Laboratories, was cited by the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) as having been associated with the most deaths, as well as the highest number of serious adverse events and hospitalisations of any similar vaccine lot during the period of 1/7/90 to 31/8/99.

The fact that Baby Alan was given vaccines from a dangerous and unsafe batch and that he was so clearly unwell, raises the question of whether vaccination should have been administered at all at that time. Yet Francine was given no advice or warning in this regard by doctors or medical staff.

Having had to deal with the life shattering experience of the death of a child, the couple�s 4 year old daughter was taken into �care� to �protect her� from her father. She was sexually battered and molested when her �protectors� left her unsupervised with two boys who had a history of deviant behaviour. The couple�s daughter was also used by the police and authorities to threaten and blackmail Francine, to help them fabricate evidence and testify against Alan. Because Francine adamantly refused to do this, she was charged as an accessory to murder. After great effort and cost, the charges against Francine were dismissed and their daughter returned.

Alan maintains that his baby�s death was the result of the medical treatment he received and a fatal reaction to his childhood immunisation.

This case demonstrates clearly how far pharmaceutical companies will go to protect themselves and their products, in this instance using the State of Florida to back them.

Vaccines are billion dollar industries. New vaccines are constantly being developed. They are administered to children in every country across the world. For this reason any case against a pharmaceutical company over adverse reaction or death is fiercely defended by any means possible.

In Britain we see the same situation over the MMR vaccine. Thousands of children have had mild to severe reactions, many becoming autistic, yet the pharmaceutical industry adamantly refuses to take responsibility and the government protects them.

The really frightening fact that few people want to face, is that there is no real scientific evidence that vaccinations work or are even effective! Parents can become near hysterical in their reaction to this statement! Many vaccinations such as TB were introduced in the 1940s at a time when reported cases of the disease had dropped dramatically, though vaccination would be cited as the reason for the decrease in numbers.

There is numerous evidence that children acquire the disease they have been vaccinated against, after being vaccinated. In other words the vaccination gave them the disease. The evidence is there as far back as the introduction of vaccinations. After England�s first compulsory vaccination law in 1853 the death rate for smallpox over a two year period was about 2000. In 1870-71, England and Wales had over 23,000 smallpox deaths after vaccination was introduced. Japan experienced yearly increases in smallpox following the introduction of compulsory vaccination in 1872. By 1892 there were 29 979 deaths and all had been vaccinated. In the early 1900s the Philippines experienced their worst smallpox epidemic after 8 million people were vaccinated with the death rate quadrupling.

The evidence, which is mostly suppressed or altered is overwhelming. According to What Doctors Don�t Tell You �TheVaccination Bible�, most children who contracted measles in the USA after MMR was introduced in 1988, had been fully vaccinated against it. In the 1950s measles was considered to be harmless, children contracted the wild strain and very few deaths were reported. Indeed it was noted that children experienced a strengthening of the immune system after recovery.

The reason behind the many adverse reactions is understood when their contents are exposed. Very few, if any, people seem to know that they can go down to their local library and ask to see the Data Sheet Compendium which lists the contents of all known pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. These manufacturers� data sheets are held by pharmacists as well.

DPT (Diptheria/Pertussis/Tetanus) vaccine contains formaldehyde, hydrochloric acid, aluminium and mercury. HiB is cultured on cow�s brains and also contains aluminium and mercury. Polio vaccine contains monkey kidney cell cultures. Is it any wonder that tiny babies having these injections at the tender ages of 2, 4 and 6 months of age, have severe and fatal reactions? MMR contains chick embryo, which may affect children who suffer an allergy to eggs. MMR also contains human foetal cells. Hepatitis B contains mercury and formaldehyde and Influenza contains mercury, formaldehyde, mashed chick embryos. The Environmental Protection Agency in America classes formaldehyde as a �hazardous waste�, yet it is injected into virtually every 8 week old baby in Britain and America throughout the world.

Does it really take such a huge leap in the imagination to see how severely damaging these practices are? The reality is that viruses and diseases cultured in questionable ways, as well as dangerous substances, are being injected into tiny babies whose immune systems have had no real chance to develop. Yes, there are children who survive this practice but these are the healthy ones whose systems can take it. Children who are not so healthy are at much greater risk of adverse reaction.

Alan says �Since my conviction, I have rallied the support of an armada of scientists, doctors and organisations, which support my innocence. Doctors and scientists from 15 countries, including the US, have stood up to support us. We have numerous reports from experts whom after record review, have declared my innocence. Many are up in arms at the iatrogenic implications shown in the records�.

To support Alan and Francine contact The Yurko Project, C/o. Mrs. Francine Yurko, PO Box 585965, Orlando, Florida 32858-5965. Tel (407) 291 4344. Email: [email protected]. See his website: www.freeyurko.bizland.com. For more information on vaccines see www.van.org.uk; www.theinformedparent.co.uk; www.jabs.org.uk; www.909shot.com; www.vaccinationdebate.com and www.vaccinationdebate.com/mybooks.html

This article first appeared in Homeopathy in Practice, journal of the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths, January 2003.

Alan Yurko Evidentiary Hearing: Day 1 ORLANDO, Florida, 23 August 2004

We are blessed and honored to have as our court reporter the indefatigable Don Harkins from Idaho Observer/VacLib fame.
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Alan Yurko's long-awaited evidentiary hearing got off to a disappointing start here today for 40 Yurko supporters, but by lunch the tide had noticeably turned in Yurko's favor and, by 5 p.m., it was obvious that the prosecution was losing ground.

New evidence has surfaced indicating that the contraindicated administration of vaccines and medical malpractice, not shaking, caused the death of baby Alan.

The hearing began with District 9 Medical Examiner's Office

Administrative Staff Supervisor, Sheri Blanton with a stack of records to be admitted into evidence.

Yurko attorney Mary Fitzgibbons alluded to the mixup in baby Alan's records and autopsy with another infant who was an older, black baby.

On redirect, Prosecutor Lerner attempted to rationalize the mixup due to the numbers of babies that must have died during the same time period. To Lerner's obvious dismay, Blanton explained that no babies died at that hospital one week before or one week after baby Alan died.

The records were admitted without objection from the state.

The opening salvo was a direct hit on the prosecution's case against Yurko. The second witness proved to be a point for the other side when Dr. Archie Kalokerinos was disqualified by the court as an expert witness. Dr. Kalokerinos's work in the Australian outback in the 60s and 70s proved that vaccines were killing and injuring large numbers of Aborigine children. He discovered that, by injecting the children with vitamin C, adverse reactions were dramatically reduced. Because his findings were met with hostility rather than being "generally accepted by the medical community" his testimony and 50 years' experience with vaccines and vaccine injuries were not to be considered by the court. Such is the course of "justice."

[Editor's note: The court may not have heard the brilliant and dedicated Dr. Kalokerinos, who flew all the way from Australia to be so disrespectfully treated, but anyone in the Orlando area Friday night 27 August will have the privilege--at a talk he will give on SIDS and SBS. (See end of this email for details).

Witness three was the custodian of records from the office of baby Alan's Pediatrician Dr. Richard Sagg. The records were accepted without objection.

Following was telephone testimony from Dr. Sagg of Orlando. It was not clear why he was not required to appear in person. The telephone exchanges were cumbersome---but revealing.

Dr. Sagg admitted that baby Alan was born with pneumonia, his breathing had been assisted by a ventilator and he was jaundiced. When his parents explained that their little boy was constipated and often had diarrhea, Dr. Sagg prescribed a teaspoon of Karo Syrup with a bottle of formula. He then explained that baby Alan was a healthy baby and it was safe to administer DTaP, OPV and HIB vaccines to him on the last of four visits
Nov. 11, 1997.

Board Certified Internist Jerry Bush, MD was the fifth witness, and he did an excellent job of explaining how "The confluence" of baby Alan's medical problems and "medical neglect," not the alleged shaking by his father, led to his death.

Recognizing that Dr. Bush's logical and credible expert testimony was damaging his case, he attempted unsuccessfully to discredit the witness on redirect after returning from the lunch break.

His lengthy attempted assault on Dr. Bush' s credibility allowed this thorough man to place much more medically logical information onto the record than would have been entered otherwise. During one volley of redirect, Fitzgibbons asked him, "Would you say he [baby Alan] died of natural causes?" "Yes, if medical negligence is a 'natural cause,'" quoth Dr. Bush!

The sixth witness was a hospital employee who was identified as a custodian of hospital records. The records for which she was custodian were admitted without objection.

Mark Strong, RN, of TransLife, the organ-harvesting company that harvested baby Alan's heart, intestines and liver, stated that the heart, which was given to a child in Alabama, was not autopsied, contrary to the original autopsy report by discredited Medical Examiner, Shashi B. Gore--- the report which was used to convict Yurko of shaking his baby to death. He also said that organs are harvested on demand---"sometimes from healthy people, sometimes from ill people." Conspicuously absent from the witness list is Dr. Gore, who retired in disgrace earlier this summer.

The eighth and final witness of the day was Ophthalmologist Horace B. Gardner, Horace B. Gardner, MD, JD, who, in a very illustrative and entertaining manner, testified as to the nature of retinal bleeds observed by Dr. Gore. He also cast doubt on the entire SBS theory by stating, "Every doctor has seen the same amount of shaken babies who developed SBS--zero." The day's testimony concluded with Dr. Gardner stating that the retinal bleeding could have been caused by the hospital which administered excessive doses of the blood thinner heparin just prior to baby Alan's death and that it was "impossible" for Dr. Gore to pinpoint the time baby Alan's retinal bleeding started, as he attempted to do in the discredited autopsy report.

Tuesday's proceedings will begin with a the prosecution's cross examination of Dr. Gardner.

Post Script: The entire event was recorded by a production crew employed by Gary Null and a FOX news affiliate. The FOX news team out of Orlando broadcast a segment reporting the Yurko case on local TV. Several of us who witnessed the events of the day had just had dinner together when the news came on. Yurko supporters can be assured that the editorial slant overwhelmingly favored Yurko.

The witnesses independently and in accordance with the expertise they have amassed in their respective medical disciplines, wove a logical sequence of events that make a powerful case for Yurko. I will say that something big is coming, but cannot say anything more at this time.

We are prayerfully optimistic that Yurko will prevail in this evidentiary hearing and will be granted a new trial. An update will be forthcoming after the conclusion of tomorrow's activities.

Don Harkins, reporting from Orlando, Florida

Alan Yurko Evidentiary Hearing: Day 2 ORLANDO, Florida.---24 August, 2004

"Objection"

Just like day one, day two of Alan Yurko's evidentiary hearing began a little shaky and ended on a positive note. Obviously reeling from the courtroom beating the prosecution received on day one, Robyn Wilkinson took over from Michael Lerner to cross examine Dr. Horace Gardner. She came out of the blocks angry, vindictive and used her estimable prowess as an attorney to confuse and badger Dr. Gardner. The tactic was effective, as the previous day's excellent testimony from the Colorado ophthalmologist appeared to have been neutralized.

Yurko supporters and counsel noted the tactical change and intuited the desperation that must have driven the prosecutors to implement it.

The second witness was Dr. Jane Orient who is currently heads the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and has impeccable credentials as an internal medicine specialist and diagnostician. She has authored a medical text book that is in its third edition, has written 50 peer-reviewed articles for 12 medical journals, has testified in courts, legislatures and congress, teaches continuing education classes to medical professionals and sits on the boards of medical associations. Fitzgibbons asked the court to accept Dr. Orient's testimony as an expert diagnostician and internal medicine specialist.

Prosecutors deposed Dr. Orient last June and knew that Dr. Orient would wreak havoc on their "case" against Yurko. After requesting to "voir dire" Dr. Orient, Wilkinson resumed her rude and confrontive demeanor to in a transparent effort to discredit Dr. Orient as an expert witness.

Dr. Orient handled herself very well and was accepted as an expert diagnostician and internist.

While being questioned by Fitzgibbons, Dr. Orient, with composed confidence, ran the full gamut of what happened, what should have happened, and what did not happen the day baby Alan died. As far as Dr. Orient was concerned, Yurko had rushed his critically sick child to the hospital which then pumped the infant full of drugs and never considered anything other than SBS as the cause of his multiple health issues and eventual death. She explained that twice the hospital declared brain death and that in neither instance did the staff follow established protocols for making such a declaration. "They kept circulation going long enough to preserve the baby's organs for harvest," Dr. Orient stated.

Upon cross examination, Wilkinson launched into Dr. Orient in such a rude and disrespectful manner even the judge seemed surprised and embarrassed. Though for a brief time Dr. Orient did seem a little irritated, but she regained her composure and turned the tables on Wilkinson by simply responding as a professional fully in control of her emotions and confident in her expertise.

For 45 minutes Wilkinson worked herself into a frustrated frenzy while Dr. Orient calmly answered questions. Much more material beneficial to Yurko's case got onto the record because of the prosecution's frantic attempt to discredit this witness. Toward the end of the ordeal, Dr. Orient was given the opportunity to state, "People believe and there is a theory, but there is no evidence of SBS."

"Oh my God," a visibly shaken and angry Wilkinson muttered as she turned away from the lectern and sat down to prepare for the next witness.

And then it got worse for the prosecution. Forensic Pathologist Stephen J. Nelson, MD took the stand. Dr. Nelson is the man who administrated the disciplinary action against his colleague Chief Medical Examiner Shashi B. Gore, MD for the numerous inconsistencies in the autopsy report that served to send Yurko to prison for life without parole for shaking his baby to death.

Lerner continually objected while Fitzgibbons was questioning Nelson as to the specifics of the errors in Dr. Gore's thoroughly discredited report. His objections were based on the fact that the material had already been heard in Gore 's Feb. 17, 2004 trial and was, therefore, not germane to the proceedings. He was repeatedly overruled and was not scoring any points with Judge Lawson in the process.

Nelson would not admit that, had Gore's autopsy report been accurate, Yurko would not have been convicted. He did state, however, that, to his knowledge this was the first time a chief medical examiner had been so severely disciplined under such circumstances. Dr. Nelson said that Dr. Gore would have been removed if he had not been so close to retirement.

After his February "conviction," Gore was ordered to conduct his administrative affairs only and not to touch another body until he retired (presumably with full benefits). Under cross examination, Lerner kept referring to the gross errors on the report---like tissue samples from a heart that had already been harvested and covering up the irresponsible doses of heparin administered to baby Alan before he died--- as "typographical errors."

The badger and confuse game plan continued with Dr. Harold Buttram whose calm, noble, knowledgeable presence was not to be disrupted by the flailing prosecutors.

Dr. Buttram has been operating a family medicine practice for 42 years and was accepted with no objection as an expert in environmental medicine. His passion is the study of the effect of toxic chemicals on the human body. His motivation is love for children and his concern that he has been observing them as they have gotten sicker and sicker as the years have gone by.

Baby Alan, who was born fragile and premature with multiple health issues, was given six vaccines when he was only 2 weeks past true gestational age. According to calculations, those injections delivered into baby Alan's already struggling body 100 times the EPA safe-allowable limit of mercury for one day.

Dr. Buttram stated that he had spent about 1,000 hours on this case and had spent six months preparing for this hearing. Amid the expected objections and badgering by Lerner, who had taken over the cross examination duties because Wilkinson had apparently lost her composure, Dr. Buttram was able to tell the entire story of what most likely happened during the short, but important life of baby Alan (I am not sure why, but I just started sobbing with that thought).

"It was vaccines that triggered the chain of events that led to his death," said Dr. Buttram, who added, "I would never vaccinate a preemie and would never give six vaccines at once, and would always administer them with vitamin C and vitamin A."

Lerner then attempted to discredit this marvelous, compassionate man for his religious beliefs. The irony is too much to not mention: This prosecutor whose tunnel vision is compelling him to use any pathetic trick he can to keep an innocent man in prison for the rest of his life, was assaulting the beliefs of a deeply spiritual Christian man who has lived his entire life for the purpose keeping people free, alive and healthy.

The last witness of the day was Dr. F. Edward Yazbak. It is getting late so I will pick up with this witness tomorrow as he will be back on the stand first thing. Let me just leave you with today's cliff hanger: The carnage continues and Dr. Yazbak hit on something that has caused the most ardent string of objections from the prosecution to date.

The raw nerve has been hit.

Until tomorrow, Reporting from Orlando Florida, Don Harkins for the Yurko Project

(No Legal Aid in the US for Alan - so do please donate something towards the cost of fighting this Case - nearly $2 to the �1 UK readers, so do please send anything you can afford.)
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