April 8, 2019 Puzzle Piece
"What about the parents' rights to decide what's best for their child?"
Lenore Skenazy| Mar. 27, 2019 10:50 am
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Screenshot via security footage
Chandler,
Arizona, cops broke through the door of a family's home in the middle
of the night, stormed in, pointed their guns, handcuffed the father, and
watched as the state's Department of Child Safety (DCS) took custody of
the parents' three kids—all because mom had decided her toddler's fever
was not serious enough to merit a trip to the hospital.
It was dinnertime on February 25 when the pregnant mother took her
2-year-old to the doctor with a fever of over 100. The doctor told her
to take him to the emergency room, fearing that because the boy was
unvaccinated, perhaps he had meningitis—a life-threatening disease.
The doctor called the hospital to alert them. But by the time the
mother and child left his office, the boy was "laughing and playing with
his siblings," according to this excellent piece by Dianna M. Nanez in The Arizona Republic.
Mom took his temperature again, and it was almost normal. So instead of
going to the emergency room, the family went home. The mom called the
doctor to say her boy's fever had broken and she wasn't going to the
emergency room. The doctor told her she should go anyway, so she agreed
she would—but then she didn't.
That's when the madness began.
The hospital called the doctor to tell him the toddler hadn't
arrived. The doctor called DCS. And DCS requested the cops check on the
family as a caseworker headed over.
And then, according to The Arizona Republic:
It was about 10:30 p.m. when two police officers knocked on the family's door. The officers heard someone coughing.
Officer Tyler Cascio wrote in a police report that he knocked on the door several times, but no one answered.
A neighbor approached the officers and police explained the
situation. The woman said she knew her neighbor and that "she was a good
mother." At the request of officers, the neighbor called the mother and
said police wanted to speak with her.
The DCS caseworker arrived and updated police on the toddler's
fever and the mother choosing not to take her child to the hospital. The
officer called the family's doctor, who repeated her recommendation
that the mother take the child to the hospital. ...
At about 11:30 p.m., the caseworker informed officers that DCS
planned to obtain a "temporary custody notice" from a judge to remove
the child for emergency medical aid. Just after midnight the caseworker
got that notice, which is required by law. Matters subsequently
escalated:
Cascio wrote that officers consulted with the police criminal investigations bureau and SWAT.
"Based upon the court order, the intent of DCS to serve the order,
and exigency to ensure the health and welfare of the child, the
decision was made to force entry to the home if the parents refused to
respond to verbal requests," according to police records. Police
knocked, saying they had a court order and would force entry if needed,
according to police records.
And force they did:
It was after 1 a.m. when officers kicked down the family's door.
One officer carried a shield, while another was described as having
"lethal coverage." Officers pointing guns yelled, "Chandler Police
Department," and entered the house.
The rest of the story is equally nuts. The kids were all placed in
separate foster homes. When the case got to juvenile court 10 days
later, DCS requested it be closed to the public. The judge refused.
But then it seemed as if DCS decided to make everything harder for
the parents, because now the press was interested, as was the Arizona
DCS Oversight Group, a local organization that fights for families'
rights, and a state legislator, Rep. Kelly Townsend (R–Mesa), who had
helped write the law requiring DCS to get a warrant before removing a
child. Townsend has been lobbing zingers like, "What about the parents'
rights to decide what's best for their child? Parents felt the child was
fine. Next thing we know, the Gestapo is at their door."
In court, DCS tried to convince the judge, Jennifer Green, to bar
the press from covering the dispute. A lawyer for the agency even
claimed that the parents had gone against the best interests of the
children by involving the media. Green rejected this argument, saying,
"In Arizona we like our courts to be open."
However, the judge ultimately sided with DCS, ruling that the
children's removal was lawful and telling the parents "to remember that
the state had them on a family-reunification plan and wants them to
regain custody of their children."
The children's grandparents are undergoing a DCS review and hope
to be permitted to temporarily shelter the kids once that's approved.
But there's no telling how long it will be before the kids can just go
home to mom and dad.
End of Story at this point…
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