An Idaho mother who said her 18-month-old twins died last year after receiving three vaccines has been charged with murder in their deaths, officials said ….
Andrea Shaw, 23, was indicted on two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of her toddlers, Tyson and Dallas, who were found dead in a shared bed on 1 May last year.
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Days after her twins died, Shaw and her husband appeared on a podcast produced by the anti-vaccination organization Children’s Health Defense, which was previously led by Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, with Shaw claiming that vaccines had killed her children.
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In a GiveSendGo fundraiser linked to the episode, the family said they had taken the twins to their 18-month well-child visit, where they received routine vaccines, and alleged that both babies died in their sleep a few days later.
That fundraiser raised more than $10,000.
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Shaw’s attorney, Joseph Filicetti, also alleged to the Boise station KTVB that the twins had died from vaccinations.
“They were looking at it as a vaccine death, and that’s still what I believe it to be,” Filicetti said. …
Filicetti did not provide KTVB with any evidence to support these claims when prompted.
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Citing court documents, KTVB reported that the indictment alleges that Shaw suffocated her toddlers. Shaw’s civil lawsuit against the American Academy of Pediatrics, filed with Children’s Health Defense, said no alternative cause of death had been identified for either child.
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