By Josh Kelety| Associated Press
July 7, 2026 - 6:21 am
An Idaho pistillate who said her toddler twins died past twelvemonth aft being vaccinated faces execution charges connected to their deaths, authorities said.
A expansive assemblage indicted Andrea Shaw, who is accused of suffocating her 18-month-old twins successful May 2025, connected 2 counts of first-degree execution connected June 29, according to tribunal records and a connection from the Payette Police Department.
While appearing past twelvemonth connected an net amusement produced by Children’s Health Defense — an anti-vaccine radical founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — Shaw said her twins died aft getting vaccinated. Kennedy has not been affiliated with the radical since December 2024, erstwhile helium formally resigned arsenic president to articulation President Donald Trump’s administration.
Shaw, 23, was arrested by Boise constabulary officers Tuesday and arraigned Thursday. She is being held connected a $2 cardinal enslaved and could look beingness successful situation oregon the decease punishment if convicted oregon if she pleads blameworthy to first-degree murder. Her adjacent tribunal quality is July 14.
Joe Filicetti, an lawyer representing Shaw, wrote successful a substance connection that she “denies thing and everything” and that the authorities “cannot prove” the transgression charges.
“We volition support her with wholeheartedness,” Filicetti added.
The Payette Police Department and the Payette County prosecutor’s bureau declined to remark Monday.
During her May 2025 quality connected the Children’s Health Defense show, Shaw said she recovered her twins dormant successful their country days aft they got vaccinated for the flu and different diseases.
“They had got their shots astatine the aforesaid clip by 2 nurses astatine the aforesaid time,” Shaw said. “And they got sick.”
Medical experts constituent retired that the puerility vaccines astatine contented — hepatitis A, influenza and DTaP — are harmless and effectual for kids and recommended by assorted aesculapian groups.
Shaw is besides a plaintiff successful a national suit brought by Children’s Health Defense and others against the American Academy of Pediatrics. The lawsuit, which was filed successful January successful national tribunal successful Washington, accuses the American Academy of Pediatrics of racketeering for its “central relation successful an endeavor that has defrauded American families astir the information of the puerility vaccine docket for respective decades.” In the lawsuit, Shaw is described arsenic a parent “whose children died pursuing regular vaccinations administered according to AAP guidelines.”
The American Academy of Pediatrics has asked the tribunal to disregard the suit, asserting successful an April tribunal filing that it is the “latest missive successful a run targeting” the academy and its “use of science-backed grounds successful vaccine policy.”
In January, pediatricians and different experts became alarmed erstwhile U.S. wellness officials made wide changes to puerility vaccine guidance, dropping respective cosmopolitan recommendations. Kennedy, who helped pb the anti-vaccine question for years, said the changes amended align the U.S. with adjacent nations “while strengthening transparency and informed consent.”
In March, a national justice blocked the changes and said Kennedy apt violated national procedures successful revamping a cardinal vaccine advisory committee. But the judge’s bid is not the last word; the blocks are temporary, pending either a proceedings oregon a determination for summary judgment.
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