If you suspect your child is in shock, seek emergency medical care right away.

CNN: Intussusception

Peritonitis may cause your child to go into shock.

CNN: Intussusception

To the advocates of smacking I suggest that sometime they look in to the eyes of a smacked child and see the shock, the hurt and pain that goes way beyond the physical.

BBC: Should children be smacked?

Maybe the child died accidentally and the parent passed out from shock?

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