Partial verdict in Syracuse case

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This is so wrong. Someone needs to write a news article about the forensic

expert in this case--Dr. Baden. There is a lot of very interesting

information about him on the Internet. Ms. Gallishaw's attorneys need to bring

this information to the judge's attention.

Partial verdict reached in retrial of Syracuse woman accused of abusing her

daughter in 2000

Syracuse mom convicted on misdemeanor count. Jurors still

to decide felony count.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

By Jim O'Hara

Jurors reached a partial verdict Friday in the retrial of a

Syracuse woman who denies assaulting her infant daughter and

blames mold exposure for the baby's hospitalization

nine years ago.

The jury of eight men and four women convicted

Everson Gallishaw on a misdemeanor count of endangering the

welfare of a child but could not reach a unanimous verdict

on a more serious charge of felony assault.

State Supreme Court Justice Brunetti let the jurors go

home for the weekend with instructions to return Monday to

continue deliberations.

Gallishaw was convicted of felony assault and endangering

the welfare of a child in 2001. Brunetti last year

overturned the conviction after the defense found

photographs to support its contention that the child's

clothing and bedding had been exposed to toxic mold when

laundered in the basement of her grandmother's home.

The defense said the child's injuries resulted from

toxic mold exposure and not child abuse.

Dr. Dorr Dearborn, a national expert on linking mold

exposure to pulmonary injuries in children, was the only

defense witness. He claimed exposure to Stachybotrys mold

was the " most likely " cause of the pulmonary

hemorrhaging that sent the baby, a, to the hospital

three times in the first two months of her life in April and

May 2000.

Dr. Baden, host of the HBO " Autopsy "

series and a forensic pathologist who testified for the

prosecution, maintained that if the mold resulted in such

injury, there would be visible proof of that in X-rays and

medical reports.

There was no such evidence, he said.

Even if convicted of the assault count, Gallishaw faces no

additional penalty because she served a sentence for the

original conviction long before it was overturned and a new

trial ordered.

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