FARMINGTON — A symbolic ribbon cutting marked the celebration of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome’s, or NCSBS’s, 25th anniversary as an organization, based here in Utah.
“I wish that we didn’t have to exist,” NCSBS board member Emily Bodily explained. “Shaken baby syndrome is 100% preventable. Background shows that there’s no demographics that it doesn’t affect. It is purely done out of anger.”
Bodily also saw her life changed through shaken baby syndrome in December of 1997, when her son, Elijah Fisher, was shaken and killed by his father. Bodily’s story came to light after she made known in Elijah’s obituary how he died and some local news organizations reached out in response.
“The last thing that I wanted was to explain over and over again, so it was just common sense to me to put how he died,” Bodily said…