Rare Disease Mimics Child Abuse and Tears Family Apart (Husband kills wife and himself)

William "Dave" O'Shell, distraught over charges of child abuse that were being leveled against him, snapped on June 30, 2008, killing his wife, Tiffany O'Shell, in their Henderson, Colo., home before taking his own life.

Just a few weeks earlier, their green-eyed, 3-month-old daughter, Alyssa, had been placed in a foster home because x-rays revealed 11 broken bones and doctors assumed that she had been beaten.

But they were wrong.

On the same day as the murder-suicide, a doctor at Colorado Children's Hospital suspected something else and was later proved right: Alyssa had a rare genetic disorder that caused her bones to fracture -- one that authorities had confused for abuse.

http://gma.yahoo.com/rare-disease-mimics-child-abuse-tears-family-apart-210441467--abc-news-health.html

I actually had a very similar experience years ago. A friend's child was taken away for close to a year because they suspected her of abuse. Turns out that the child had osteogenesis imperfecta. She had to submit medical records, family trees, affidavits over and over until they finally agreed to return the child.