A common denominator in many of the cases of medical kidnapping cases all across America is the presence of a Pediatric Child Abuse Specialist doctor. There are one too many stories where a parent takes a child to a hospital for one reason or another, only to find themselves accused of child abuse by a Child Abuse Pediatrician, even when there are real medical conditions present.

Once that accusation is made, doctors stop looking for any other explanation for a child’s symptoms,  jeopardizing the health of the child doctors are supposed to be helping. The child is usually separated from his or her parents and is frequently placed in the care of strangers. Parents in America naively assume that the doctors are concerned about finding out what is wrong with their child. They do not expect that they may encounter a doctor whose role aligns more with prosecutors and police officers than it does with the practice of medicine.

Defense attorneys in Virginia have recently discovered what could be termed an “unholy alliance” between prosecutors and a child abuse team at Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters (CHKD) in Norfolk.

According to the Daily Press, the Virginia attorneys are concerned that:

The agreement — which they learned of only recently — makes CHKD doctors part of the “prosecution team” rather than truly independent experts, which they fear could tip the scales of justice.

This “medical kidnapping” system is designed to circumvent the justice system, and give doctors the power of the Gestapo. Courts defer to the medical experts, state-appointed guardians defer to the medical experts. Once the parent is removed, doctors can proceed without answering to anyone, even using the child for research as that is allowed on foster kids.

Medical kidnapping is defined as the state taking away children from their parents and putting them into state custody and the foster care system, simply because the parents did not agree with a doctor regarding their prescribed medical treatment for the family. In some cases, it is as simple as telling a doctor you are going to seek a second opinion on a suggested medical procedure and then ending up being charged with “medical abuse” and losing your children.

The Child Abuse Pediatricians are not experts in radiology, orthopedics, neurology, or other specialties in medicine. Yet parents often find that Child Protective Services, attorneys, or their judge are not open to any other medical possibility or diagnosis once the seemingly omniscient and all-powerful Child Abuse doctor has spoken. Parents who know that they have not hurt their child and that there has to be another explanation, often seek out other doctors and medical experts.

A parent may have 6, 8, or as many as a dozen reports from medical experts – even doctors who are renowned in their field of specialty, only to have those reports ignored or minimized by CPS and the court. Many times judges refuse to even look at such reports, choosing instead to take the word of a doctor who is not qualified to make a medical judgment on many conditions.

I have seen so many cases where these pediatric child abuse “experts” who testify against the parents have never met or examined the child, nor have they reviewed any medical records of the child from any other provider/facility.  They base their findings on what they “think” may be pediatric child abuse and often times it is used to cover up vaccine damage or medical malpractice.

Families with medically-complex children are particularly at risk from such doctors. These doctors have accused parents of abuse when their child has a condition that is known to mimic abuse, such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, osteogenesis imperfecta, or infantile rickets. Symptoms of Shaken Baby Syndrome, or SIDS, may be attributable to other causes, such as vaccine injury, strokes, seizures, prematurity, or pitocin-induced labor. Birth injuries are sometimes missed at the time of birth and then blamed on the parents later.

Grandmother Wrongly Accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome is Freed from Prison After 11 Years

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a grandmother was freed from prison this month after Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent became involved.

Maria Mendez spent the last 11 years of her life serving a 25-year sentence for the death of her 9-month-old grandson. She had been convicted of Shaken Baby Syndrome, but attorneys and law students who fight for people who are wrongfully convicted took up her case, pointing out medical evidence that was not considered by the court.

In most medical kidnapping stories , no criminal charges are ever filed. The children are seized, placed into foster care – usually with strangers, and the parents sometimes lose custody permanently, even though the parents or grandparents are never charged with any type of a crime.

The rare cases of Child Protective Services involvement, in which someone faces criminal charges, usually fall in one of three categories:

1. Shaken Baby Syndrome
2. Multiple broken bones
3. Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/Medical Child Abuse

In each of the three, there is frequently a valid medical reason for the child’s injuries, but that reason is often never presented as evidence in court. In these cases, as well as in many cases that do not involve criminal charges, there is almost always a Child Abuse Specialist doctor involved. There are thousands of cases nationwide in which someone went to prison for child abuse based largely, or even solely, upon the testimony of Child Abuse Specialist doctors while other valid medical explanations are ignored in court.

Programs such as Loyola Law School’s Project for the Innocent and The Innocence Project seek to free people who are wrongfully convicted of crimes. Hundreds of people across the United States have been exonerated through the efforts of such programs. Many convictions of Shaken Baby Syndrome, like that of Maria Mendez, have been thrown out or retried in recent years.

Sources:

https://healthytraditions.com/healthytraditions/books/dangers-of-medicine-books/medical-kidnapping.html

http://medicalkidnap.com/2018/07/22/pediatricchild-abuse-experts-are-not-experts-in-anything/

http://www.dirtybigpharmatruth.com/falsely-accused-shaken-baby-syndrome.html