'Baby Shaker' app pulled from iPhone store

By Suzanne Choney
msnbc.com
updated 8:47 p.m. ET, Wed., April 22, 2009

A controversial program for the iPhone called "Baby Shaker" was added to, then pulled from, Apple's App Store this week after protests about the program's offensive nature dealing with a deadly serious subject.Child protection groups were outraged by the 99-cent app for the iPhone and iPhone touch, which encourages those frustrated with babies' crying to shake them, or in this case, shake their devices to change drawings of a crying baby to a calm one.

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