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2019-03-28 -Land of the Free

Mom Ignores Doctor When Her Sick 2-Year-Old Starts Feeling Better, Child Services Send a SWAT Team

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Posted by DarthVader 2019-03-28 11:04|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 SWAT? More than overkill.

Posted by JohnQC 2019-03-28 11:29|| 2019-03-28 11:29|| Front Page Top

#2 There has to be more to the story. They were already on a state reunification plan, sounds like there were some prior abuse or neglect issues going on...

Posted by 49 Pan 2019-03-28 11:44|| 2019-03-28 11:44|| Front Page Top

#3 "Come on! We got all this equipment and some grant money from Homeland Security. We're all jumped up on Tacti-Cool(tm). And you want us to knock on the door and say "Excuse me, ma'am"? Ain't gonna happen."

On the plus side, this is a nice object lesson in why the Founding Fathers didn't trust governments - even their own.

Posted by SteveS 2019-03-28 11:48|| 2019-03-28 11:48|| Front Page Top

#4 See earlier post

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-28 12:00|| 2019-03-28 12:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Everyone in DCS and police involved in this should be fired without pension or references or anything. Such horribly bad judgement they shouldn't be allowed to work in garbage pickup.

Posted by rjschwarz 2019-03-28 12:37|| 2019-03-28 12:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Agree with 49 Pan. Something else is going on here.

I'll abide by the 48-hr rule......for now.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2019-03-28 12:43|| 2019-03-28 12:43|| Front Page Top

#7 There has to be more to this.

Otherwise, this is the sort of thing that gives rise to armed revolutions, dead police, and bureaucrats hanging from lamp posts.

Posted by Injun Bucket8891 2019-03-28 14:40|| 2019-03-28 14:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Can't imagine any malpractice attorney telling the doctor to do differently...

Posted by M. Murcek 2019-03-28 16:54|| 2019-03-28 16:54|| Front Page Top

#9 This is not the first time overzealous doctors and child protective service social workers have combined to kidnap children from their caring parents. Recall Justina Pelletier, who spent sixteen months in a locked hospital psych ward, her parents forbidden to have unsupervised contact with her, because the doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital disagreed with the diagnosis of the experts at Tufts Medical Center.

I know of a similar case in California where a young child with a rare fragile bone disease (I don’t recall the precise name) was taken from his single mother and put in foster care on the assumption that the clearly loved child was being abused. When she finally got the boy back years later, she fled with him to the far side of the country must to make sure California child protective services couldn’t get their hands on him again. They stayed overnight with us on the way — he was charming, bright, and visbly relieved to be back with his mother.

The website MedicalKidnap.com is a bit obsessive about collecting stories and statistics on the subject.

Posted by trailing wife 2019-03-28 21:22|| 2019-03-28 21:22|| Front Page Top

#10 A way station in the underground railroad of healthcare.

Posted by Skidmark 2019-03-28 23:47|| 2019-03-28 23:47|| Front Page Top

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