About the Authors

Ingemar Thiblin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Jacob Andersson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Knut Wester

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Medicine K1, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Johan Wikström

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Göran Högberg

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Private Practice, Stockholm, Sweden

Ulf Högberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

ulf.hogberg@kbh.uu.se

Affiliations Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Competing Interests

Ingemar Thiblin, Ulf Högberg, Knut Wester and Johan Wikström have written statements and appeared in court in child abuse cases both on the request of the prosecutor and the defence. Göran Högberg has written statements and appeared in court in child abuse cases on the request of the defence. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.