Holly Atkins was devastated when she learned that her son had multiple broken bones. A Child Abuse Specialist accused her of abuse without looking for medical conditions that would explain what happened, and Child Protective Services seized both of her children, placing them with her parents and sister.

Then North Carolina demanded that her family cut off all ties to her, including phone calls and social media, or her children will go into foster care and be adopted out. The court appointed GAL attorney advocate, Donna Michelle Wright, reportedly told Holly’s parents in family court :

“Act like [your daughter] never existed.”

This same attorney reportedly told Holly’s father previously that:

“If Holly’s parental rights are terminated, your main priority will have to be the children. Your and Holly’s relationship would be no more.”

While even murderers are allowed visitation with family members, Holly was faced with losing the close relationship she has always had with her parents as well as with her sister, who lives with her parents.

Medical Problems Since Birth – Misdiagnosed

There were no significant problems with Holly’s pregnancy with Daylan. She enjoyed a diet that was mostly organic and included homegrown vegetables. His birth was an uncomplicated repeat c-section, but he experienced feeding issues from the beginning, throwing up even the colostrum from day 1.

Doctors put him on formula, but he continued to projectile vomit. He lost more than 10% of his body weight. By day 4, doctors prescribed ranitidine (Zantac) and added rice cereal to his diet. At first, he was taking ranitidine twice per day. Then, the dosage was increased and he took it 3 times a day, up until he was about 9 months old. All along, Daylan continued to projectile vomit.

He was misdiagnosed from the very beginning as having reflux, but it was not until much later, at 9 months of age, that it was discovered that Daylan is lactose intolerant. When Holly began feeding him solid food, he began throwing up less often and frequently rejected his bottle. His mother wondered if he could be lactose intolerant. After all, her sister had been. That was the point at which Holly tried switching him to lactose-free milk. All of a sudden, the vomiting stopped and he no longer needed the reflux medicine. It was never reflux.

All along, Holly noticed cracking and popping in Daylan, and she says he had bowed legs. She asked her pediatrician, but she was unconcerned, saying it was normal.

Hospital Trip Turns into a Nightmare

There was a couple of weeks when Holly says that Daylan was not quite acting like himself and was waking up frequently. He was also teething. It was at the end of that 2 week period when everything came crashing down. He woke up one morning after being very fussy the night before. It was March 1, 2015, and he was 11 months old. It was around 7 am, but unlike most mornings, Daylan did not stand up in his crib and throw his pacifier after he woke up.

When Holly picked him up, she noticed that his leg was red. When she changed his diaper, he acted like he was in pain. She gave him ibuprofen, but when she tried to feed him, he refused to eat. By that point, his leg had started swelling. She called her mom and together they took Daylan to nearby Moses Cone Medical Center. Doctors there told Holly that his femur was broken.

As she racked her brain to try to figure out what could have happened, the only answer she could think of at the time was that somehow the family’s 80 lb. boxer may have stepped on him or hurt him. The children loved playing with their dog, and the dog loved them and was very protective over Daylan and Baylie. At the time, that was the only explanation that Holly could come up with.

Despite regular pediatric visits, no one had yet considered the possibility that there was more to Daylan’s symptoms. Not knowing what caused an injury is a red flag according to American Academy of Pediatrics policy. Having no explanation triggers doctors to follow abuse protocols.

There have been reports on many families whose children were taken because their child had an underlying medical condition, such as infantile rickets, osteogenesis imperfecta, or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, which can look like child abuse. Often the doctors who see the children in the ER, or the Child Abuse Specialist doctors, are not well trained in what other things to look for before labeling a case as abuse.

Such was the case with Daylan, and abuse protocols had already been triggered in the emergency room. Doctors at Moses Cone told Holly that they were going to have to transfer her son to Brenner Children’s Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC. She did not want him to transfer, due to a previous negative experience with Brenner, but she was told that this was in case he needed surgery. She had no idea that Brenner had a team of Child Abuse Specialists on staff.

Holly tried to accompany her son as he was transferred to Brenner Children’s Hospital. They told her it was against their policy, and would not allow her to go with him. Devastated, Holly, her mother, and Baylie followed the ambulance to Brenner. They were met by security guards and police.

Baby Stops Breathing After Being Sedated – Mother Not Told

A Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon informed Holly that he was going to apply a spica cast, which is a kind of body cast used to immobilize the hips or thigh. Their plan was to sedate Daylan, do a full set of skeletal x-rays, and apply the cast.

Holly realized that they did not yet have blood work labs, because the previous hospital didn’t have the right size needle. She has a medical background as a Certified Nursing Assistant II, and has worked in triage and trauma and with stroke victims. Sedation without first having blood work did not sound like a good idea to Holly, and she let the doctor know that. She reports that the doctor reassured her that it would just be a local anesthetic, and that:

“I don’t think we’ll have a problem.”

He was wrong. When she saw her son about an hour later, Holly says that he was “loopy,” disoriented, pale, and didn’t seem to recognize family members. His eyes were rolling back into his head, and his eyes appeared solid black. She says that she also noticed a lump on his shoulder that hadn’t been there before she took Daylan to Moses Cone.

The staff reportedly told the alarmed mother that this was normal and that all this would wear off in an about 20 minutes. They said that “everything went fine.” It was not until many months later that she obtained medical records showing that he had stopped breathing and coded during the procedure, requiring resuscitation, using a jaw thrust and other measures. No one allegedly told Holly about this.

Doctors came in to tell her that the x-rays showed several other fractures, including a fresh clavicle break, and a fracture of the tibia and rib fractures in various stages of healing. She was stunned.

Experts in radiology, neurology, orthopedics, and other specialties regularly assert that there are a myriad of medical conditions which mimic child abuse. However, numerous families have reported, and medical and court documents confirm, that once a Child Abuse Specialist labels a child as being abused, doctors frequently stop looking for other possible explanations for the child’s condition. The children are then funneled into the Child Protective System, triggering the release of federal funding to the state.

Child Protective Services Steps In

On the 2nd day of Daylan’s hospitalization, Child Protective Services told her that her children would not be allowed to go home with her. Daylan was released to his grandparents’ care and  Baylie was ordered to go home with them as well. Child Protective Service officially seized custody of both children on March 19, 2015. Holly says that she and her fiance were coerced into signing a safety plan agreement. Social workers told them that the children would go into foster care if they refused to sign. Even thought they now live with their grandparents, CPS has all the control.

In the beginning, Holly and her fiance were allowed visitation every evening to feed and bathe the children, and put them to bed. That was short-lived. By March 19, CPS cut off all visits. In court 6 days later, a judge ruled that Holly could have one hour long visit per week.

Children Removed From Grandparents Home And Placed In Foster Care

After Holly’s story appeared on Medical Kidnap, CPS removed her children from the guardian grandparents (her  parents) and put them in foster care.  The only reason given to their guardian grandparents and to their mother Holly Atkins was that Holly told their story to Health Impact News and it was published on their Medical Kidnap website.

The alarming news was posted on the family’s Facebook page, Let My Babies Go:

“DSS came after visitation and kidnapped Holly’s children yet again! Their excuse?? The medical kidnap article. Hollys children are now in a home with complete strangers because of the medical kidnap article!! No safety issues being with the maternal grandparents, nothing! Made the children leave with the clothes on their back. Holly’s school aged daughter without her bookbag. No clothes, no diapers, no clean clothes or underwear. The daughter has diagnosed PTSD from the PATERNAL grandfather molesting her!! How is this protecting the children????”

The children’s grandmother drove them to the Department of Social Services (DSS) office for their one hour per week visit with Holly. When the time for the visit was over, social worker Cheyenne Paylor called Holly and her mother into a room, reportedly telling them that:

“This is only going to take 5 minutes.”

As the children were led away upset, Cheyenne Paylor and her supervisor sat down at a table with Holly and her mother. Holly says she couldn’t believe the words she was hearing Cheyenne say:

“We’ve seen the article on Medical Kidnap, and we are now removing the children [from the grandparents’ care] and putting them into a foster home.”

As her mother began weeping, Holly questioned the social worker:

“So, basically, you’re removing my children because I am exercising my right to freedom of speech?”

Cheyenne Paylor reportedly told her, “Yes,” and she made it clear that there was nothing that the family could do about it, and she would listen to no arguments.

Social Worker Cheyenne Paylor

Children Seized from Grandparents Without Any Documents

Holly says that her mother asked about the motion that the grandparents had recently filed for custody of the children, a motion that is set to be heard at the next Family Court hearing on May 20. She was shut down by the social worker, who reportedly replied:

“You are not going to get custody because we have custody”.

She allegedly told the family that the children were going to be taken to a foster home where there are 2 other children Baylie’s age. During the entire course of the dreadful ordeal, there was never a court order produced. In fact, Holly says that the social worker and her supervisor never gave them any kind of paperwork or documents as they seized the children.

“Emergency” Donations Taken for Children Who Already Have Plenty of Clothes

The social worker refused to let the children’s grandmother get Baylie’s school backpack out of the car for her, which contained her schoolwork. They refused Daylan’s diaper bag as well.

The family offered to go home and pack up some clothes and toys for the children, but Holly reports that they were not interested. She later learned that her mother overheard a fascinating conversation while Holly was visiting with her children. What she overheard may explain why the social worker saw no need to get any of Baylie or Daylan’s clothes.

The children were sent out of DSS with garbage bags of clothes that were not theirs. Holly’s mother reportedly heard the social worker and supervisor discussing that the clothes were donated after the supervisor sent out an emergency call for clothes and money for some children who were coming into foster care. The message allegedly went out to social workers, judges, and even city council members in the city of Greensboro, and one city councilman donated $100 to the cause.

The Atkins children don’t need any of this. They have plenty of good, quality clothes at home, including new clothes that still have the tags on them.

Just another example of the failure that is the Child Protective Services. I  included the social worker’s name and picture because I am sick and tired of these corrupt social workers who think they know better than you what’s best for your kids and go to extreme measures to keep you from your own children.   Then when you fight back they punish who again?  Oh that’s right, THE CHILDREN.  

If you work for CPS and are doing stuff like this you will end up in one of these articles with photo and name attached. Parents have had ENOUGH! At least we can put a face and a name to these “legal child traffickers” and warn others.  They should be ashamed of themselves for engaging in such heinous abuse of parental and constitutional rights.  SHAME ON  YOU!

I think CPS/DCF needs to find a new motto.  “In the best interest of the children,”  Is clearly a big joke within the family court system because it’s clear what is happening is in the BEST INTEREST of federal funding.

Sources:

http://medicalkidnap.com

http://www.thelibertybeacon.com/north-carolina-kidnaps-children-from-grandparents-because-of-medical-kidnap-article/

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thecapt/2016/05/06/americas-obsession-with-disregarding-dignity-humanity

https://www.facebook.com/Let-My-Babies-Go-1142003329148028/?fref=nf