Child Welfare

[indago]

Journalist Dave Collins wrote for The Associated Press 15 August 2016:
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A couple whose two young sons were taken away by the state for several months in 2000 over a doctor's disputed abuse opinion lost a bid on Monday to reinstate a lawsuit against the state child welfare agency.

The state Appellate Court rejected an appeal by former Newtown residents Michele and Craig Sienkiewicz, whose baby son had multiple bone fractures. The couple sued the state Department of Children and Families and agency officials for an undisclosed amount of money, citing emotion pain, humiliation, legal fees in fighting the agency and other reasons.

...A Superior Court judge's ruling included a finding that the state was shielded from the lawsuit by government immunity. ...Experts for the couple would later testify in court that the injuries occurred at the time of birth and were the result of either medical personnel pushing on Michele Sienkiewicz's stomach or from pulling the child out of the uterus during the cesarean section.
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Doncha' just LUV it: the State can do no wrong...

 

[midcan5]

Maybe the state or the doctors were wrong in this case, but having seen abuse firsthand sometimes it is better to make a mistake than allow a child to die. We have seen it in our neighborhood and it was partially the responsibility of the orthodox religious beliefs of the family.

Child abuse statistics – Get the facts of Child abuse and neglect

Government haters often live in fantasyland.
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[Conservative65]

Maybe the state or the doctors were wrong in this case, but having seen abuse firsthand sometimes it is better to make a mistake than allow a child to die. We have seen it in our neighborhood and it was partially the responsibility of the orthodox religious beliefs of the family.

Child abuse statistics – Get the facts of Child abuse and neglect

Government haters often live in fantasyland.
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Government lovers quite often make mistakes but if they don't affect them, it's OK with them.