A woman has been charged with first-degree murder over the deaths of her 18-month-old twins. The mother, Andrea Shaw, was indicted by a grand jury in June, according to Idaho’s Payette Police Department.
Shaw is involved in a lawsuit filed alongside Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s former organization, Children’s Health Defense, against the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
“Plaintiffs Andrea Shaw and Shanticia Nelson are mothers whose children died following routine vaccinations administered according to AAP guidelines. Plaintiff Jane Doe is a mother whose daughter held a valid medical exemption based on documented anaphylaxis for nearly a decade,” the lawsuit reads. “A school medical consultant applying the narrow ACIP contraindications framework that AAP’s paradigm justifies, overrode two treating physicians and forced the catch-up vaccination, resulting in documented injuries.”
The filing alleges that the AAP’s claims that childhood vaccines are “safe” are “false and fraudulent.”
“AAP participates in an association-in-fact enterprise with vaccine manufacturers,” the lawsuit adds. “The enterprise’s common purpose is to maintain and expand vaccine uptake by assuring pediatricians, hospitals, parents, and policymakers that the schedule is categorically safe, while concealing material facts about the lack of testing, inadequacies in the vaccine safety monitoring programs, and financial incentives tied to vaccine schedule compliance.”
Shaw’s twins were brought to the emergency room the day following their vaccinations, with “severe symptoms including blue lips, lethargy, and sunken eyes.” They died eight days after receiving the vaccines.
The filing explains that rather than investigating the post-immunization reaction as a cause of death, authorities opened a homicide investigation. “This criminal investigation is a foreseeable consequence of AAP’s fraudulent safety claims: when the medical system has been told that vaccines cannot cause serious injury or death, grieving parents become suspects rather than victims,” it says.
