A Grieving Father's Nightmare





It was in the early morning hours on January 20, 2002, Dwight "Nick"
Davidson's nightmare began when his daughter, Alexa' Nicole Davidson,
stopped breathing in his arms. Alexa's mother had just taken her to
the Emergency Room for failure to feed and inconsolable crying. She
was discharged from the hospital just 54 minutes before her last
breath, as a "healthy, spoiled baby."

After the mother arrived home Alexa' stopped breathing in her
father's arms. Alexa' was rushed to Gateway Medical Center and
transferred via life flight to Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in
Nashville, TN.

The medical staff's findings were that Alexa' had severe "Shaken Baby
Syndrome." They found old broken ribs missed by the Emergency Room
and a closed head injury, they claimed came from severe shaking. They
found an old healing fracture to her left tibia and an intra osseous
line in her right tibia. The doctor's also noted Sub Dural
hemorrhage, Sub Arachnid hemorrhage, Cerebral infarcts. The next
morning, Doctor's at Vanderbilt declared Alexa' "Brain dead." Nick
never realized he was about to face not only loosing his first born
child, but a fight to save his own life.

Just over 24 hours after Nick witnessed his daughter's final breath,
he was arrested. With no physical evidence, armed with nothing more
than a theory and inconsistent recollections given by the mother of
the events surrounding her daughters death, the prosecution began
targeting Nick as their number one suspect. Alexa' was disconnected
from life support one hour after her father's arrest. He was
completely denied his right to say good bye to his daughter.

Nick began a battle that has now lasted two years. He fought with
grief in his heart to prove that he had done nothing to hurt his
daughter.

The investigation that surrounded his daughter's death lasted only 30
days. It began with the medical diagnosis given by Vanderbilt
Hospital and ended a 31 page interview that Alexa's mother gave in
exchange for "immunity against truthful statements."

The prosecution ignored several medical mistakes and the mother's
inconsistent statements. Driving on with their theory that Nick had
snapped on his daughter, due to bent up tension from serving six
months overseas, in the 20 common sense minutes he had his daughter
in his care, while her mother took a shower.

The Emergency Room missed the old rib fractures, although the doctor
had Alexa's chest X-rayed. Gateway Medical Center noted that Alexa'
had a "slight cardiac enlargement." Vanderbilt University also
reported that Alexa's heart seemed "slightly enlarged," but did not
do further medical testing to rule other medical reasons for Alexa's
heart to be enlarged. The doctor's ignored the intra osseous line in
Alexa's right tibia, a possible sign of brittle bones. Vanderbilt
missed a linear skull fracture and had misdiagnosed Alexa with
retinal hemorrhages. The medical examiner reported in his autopsy
that Alexa had "no retinal hemorrhages," he reported that she had
optical nerve damage. The medical examiner noted that Alexa had a
swollen, movable lymph node in her neck but did not include whether
or not he had removed and tested the lymph node for possible signs of
infection? The heart was donated, so was not present to be examined
during the autopsy.

The medical staff and examiner did nothing to explore other avenues
in connection with Alexa's death. The possibility of the vaccine
connection or other disease, that mirrors Shaken Baby, was not
explored. There was no bruising over Alexa's torso, where they
claimed she was squeezed so severely as to cause broken ribs. There
was no evidence of squeezing present on her body. The medical staff
made no notation of a contusion or even a bump on the back of head
from the skull fracture. They actually noted there was "no skull
fractures," even after proper testing that included a CT Scan.

At Nick's trial in March of 2003, the doctor's who made these medical
mistakes and the mother who continued to make inconsistent statements
testified against Nick. He faced two indictments; One count for
Aggravated Child Abuse and Count Two for Murder One, punishable with
60 years in prison, a life sentence without the possibility of
parole. The only evidence the prosecution had against Nick was
circumstantial. Circumstantial evidence that could have supported
many other theories as to what happened to Alexa'.

The trial lasted only two in a half days. The jury deliberated for
three hours, and returned a verdict to a lessor charges of Reckless
Aggravted Assault and Criminally Negligent Homicide. Nick was
sentenced to three and one half years at 30%.

Reckless Aggravated Assault

39-13-102

A person commits irritated assault who, being the parent or custodian
of a child or adult, intentionally or knowingly fails or refuses to
protect such child or adult from an aggravated assault or aggravated
child abuse.

Criminally Negligent Homicide

39-13-212

Criminally Negligent conduct, in Nick's case failing to protect his
child, results in death.

During the sentencing the judge said, "I see no evidence that you did
this." Several times during the trial the judge said that there were
two parents present during the time Alexa' stopped breathing and that
Nick was "ONE" of them.

Nick took on the prosecution with no expert witness. Most have
referred to this as "suicidal." Nick's family could not afford an
expert. They had to have faith in the system and in the truth. The
jury found him guilty of failing to protect his daughter. He sits in
prison with no idea of whom or what he was supposed to be protecting
Alexa' from. The prosecution makes absolutely no effort to solve the
mystery.

Many have described Nick's outcome in his case as, "Lucky." At first
this was insulting to us, but as we further study into the epidemic
of false "Shaken Baby" cases we realize indeed he was very lucky. The
prosecutors tend to feed off the emotion of the words, "Baby
Murderer."

Until I have begun the research in Nick's case I am not so sure I
would have been able to let some of these parents walk away either.
The public is completely uneducated on "vaccine link" to "Shaken
Baby" or the lack of protocol to rule out other medical
possibilities. It is left up to the medical staff to make efforts to
find other explanations as what else could have caused such injuries
to a child. This needs to change. The medical profession needs to
establish protocol in these cases to rule out all other possibilities
for these children's injuries. Innocent parents all over the world
are suffering. There will be many more in the future as long as the
system continues to take a blind eye to true justice.

If the medical field and the prosecution is continuing to label
Alexa's death a murder, we demand they find this murderer or reopen
the investigation and find out what actually caused her death.

Finally, a tough question. Was Alexa' murdered? Dr. Michael D. Innis,
Honorary Consultant Hematologist, Princess Alexandra Hospital,
Brisbane, Australia reports that, Infectious Mononucleosis from EBV
infection was a factor in Alexa's demise.

"Children are vulnerable to deficiencies in Vitamins C, K and D as
well as chemicals such as Calcium and Phosphorus, all of which are
associated with rib and skeletal fractures, and with bleeding in some
instances. The possibility of both Vitamin C and K deficiency would
need to be consider as both are capable of causing fractures as well
as bruising and bleeding from the gut, and both may have a
nutritional origin. But no tests for these conditions were done.
However there is a significant abnormality in the Lymphocyte count
which is approximately double the upper value of normal and should
alert one to the possibility of a viral infection especially, at this
age, the Epstein-Barr virus which would account for the infants
distress.

Alexa' stopped breathing for several minutes before being intubated,
and has been pointed out by Geodes et al., intra cerebral hemorrhages
may result. Severe metabolic acidosis with inadequate resp. comp was
the comment of the Pathologist and I agree entirely that is the
explanation of the Blood pH reading. Metabolic acidosis is the result
of the body, including the brain, being deprived of Oxygen. When the
brain is deprived of Oxygen it swells causing cerebral edema and
subdural hemorrhages. The EB Virus causes Hepatitis which in turn
causes a loss of the proteins necessary for the coagulation of blood.
One result is Vitamin K. Deficiency Bleeding (VKDB) a well known
complication of defective liver function, which would explain the
fractures, bleeding and bruising seen in the child.

In support of the contention that a diagnosis of EB Virus infection
is valid, is the finding of one slightly enlarged soft, movable lymph
node in the neck which the Pathologist does not include in his
summary of postmortem findings. This finding is exactly what one
would expect in EBV infection and has to my knowledge never been put
forward as a sign of multiple blunt force injury.

The father has given a clear description of the Apparent Life
Threatening Event Alexa suffered which caused the Cardio-Respiratory
arrest, Anoxia and its fatal consequences.

Having contributed to the medical literature on this subject (Letter
Lancet, June 5, 1978) I am confident with a reasonable degree of
medical certainty that Infectious Mononucleosis from EBV infection
was a factor in Alexa's demise.

Finally, since I believe EB Virus infection played a significant role
in Alexa's death I have concerns that the donation of her heart may
cause problems in the recipient."

As we continue to help others get a better picture of what the
medical field and prosecution are lacking to bring true justice and
rule out cases that are not actual abuse, we hope we can make a
difference in how parents are treated in the future. We as members of
society must demand this change.

To read further about Nicks case see the links below and consider
signing is petition.

"If there is any greater crime or sin that we as members of the
Human Race and citizens of this great country can commit beyond that
of harming a child, it is to wrongfully accuse and/or persecute and
innocent parent that has already suffered the loss or harm of one of
their offspring. Lee Woodard, Human Rights, USA"

Nick's full story is at the following site
http://castleofhopeforlostsouls.org/theinjusticesystem/dwightdavidson.
html
Sign our petition to help Alexa's father.
http://www.petitiononline.com/Alexa02/petition.html
View our Family Album here
http://groups.msn.com/HeartsInsideOut/nickdavidsonandfamily.msnw