Battered Baby
Using actors, and calling on the experience of Great
Ormond Street and other
London hospitals. This two-part Horizon created a typical battering family, the Baileys, to investigate this appalling problem.
Eight-week-old Sharon Bailey is rushed to hospital badly bruised and with a broken arm. Her mother Jane admits to 'shaking' her. What made
Jane snap when most parents faced with a screaming child don't? What role did her husband Andrew have? 1: From Generation to
Generation
In the two days following the incident, Dr Danya Glaser , a family therapist from Guy's Hospital, explores the whole family's history, including Jane's and Andrew's own childhoods, to uncover the roots of the crisis.
(Part 2: Breaking the Chain at 9.30)