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SIDS families, at the guidance of the SIDS Alliance, have been at the forefront of efforts urging the funding of research, adoption of mandatory autopsy legislation, and thorough, but compassionate death scene investigations. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, cases of child abuse fatalities which are misdiagnosed as SIDS are uncommon, the exception not the rule . It is the hope of the SIDS community that, through the development and practice of proper protocols, the handful of cases masking child abuse each year will be uncovered. It is very painful, for the thousands of legitimate SIDS parents across this country to be continuously subjected by the media to sensationalized reports of the isolated cases that have somehow fallen through the cracks in the medical examiner system. The Waneta Hoyt case, in particular, was splashed across the media when she was indicted twenty-five years after the fact, then again when she was convicted a year later, and is now being rehashed for public consumption a third time now that a pair of reporters have published a book from which they hope to gain fame from all this tragedy.