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Mandated Testing for Suspected Child Abuse

Mandated Testing for Suspected Child Abuse

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Started by Anonymous 15 years, 11 months ago

Please sign this petition to mandate additional testing when child abuse is in question.

 

There has been an increase in misdignosed child abuse cases where children are taken away from families when broken bones are found in infants.  Osteogenesis Imperfecta and Infantile Rickets are just a couple of diagnostic differentials that can mimic child abuse. 

 

Bones in infants can become very fragile and suseptible to fractures when there is a Vitamin D deficiency.  Vitamin D deficiency can begin in utero from a lack of Vitamin D from the mother and is further exacerbated when infants are being solely breast fed.

 

Currently Vitamin D levels in infants are being tested when child abuse is in question, but there are a battery of other tests that should be performed when questioning different pathologies. 

 

In addition to Vitamin D levels, copper, parathyroid hormone, magnesium, and calcium levels should also be tested, just to name a few.  A complete history of mother, prenatal and post partum should also be taken into consideration.

 

Please help stop the separation of families by getting legislature passed to exhaust all diagnostic differentials that may mimic child abuse.  For more information please logon to "Rickets an Epidemic" on facebook.

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Reached 500 supporters

March 4, 2012

September 22, 2010

A hundred people have put their names on this now which is honestly wild because I was just sitting here worried about my own coffee getting cold while thinking about how many families are going through this nightmare of being wrongly accused. It feels like we are actually hitting a nerve here because people really do care about these babies and the medical system needs to wake up and look at the actual blood work before they tear a home apart.

Reached 100 supporters

September 21, 2010

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Kadyn
8 years ago Featured

This is happening to me as we speak. I need my baby back, we did not do anything wrong. The police are involved and refused my request of medical testing. This has to come to an end.

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Joseph Dettelis
9 years ago Featured

Any competent medical professional should know you must test diagnose for all possible medical conditions before families, care givers an even be suspected. And Medical professionals ought not be turned into gestapo!

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Anonymous
10 years ago Featured

This is so wrong in many ways!!! We need to stop these people from taking children away from perfectly fit homes and placing them in foster care systems for money!!

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HOLLY CORRALES-TALLANT
10 years ago Featured

My daughter and her husband lost their baby girl last month in NH. She believes it may have happened in a sling when she bent over to tie her 18 month old daughter's sneaker, but baby has always been colicky and legs always moved. They are devastated and can't even get a referral to have a specialist look at her and my grand-daughter had a vitamin d level of 4! The doctor who said she was abused said that was normal! This is horrible for all these parents and families and laws need to be put in place. She was solely breast fed and we suspect her bones were very soft.

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Kristen Cox
11 years ago Featured

I am currently going through the same thing. My son was born at 28 weeks premature. He had an accident and during a full body scan they found what could be possible fractures in the joints of his legs. After three xrays and 2 drs and a specialist the confirmed that thats just how they formed at birth. However they placed him in foster care for 17 days and he still hasnt been returned home and its been a month and a half. I returned to court tom. My husband and I both passed lie dector test and they still wont return my 5month old son.

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Heidi Hatton
12 years ago Featured

THIS JUST MAKES ME SO SAD! You would think that Doctors /CPS must rule out medical issues before accusing someone of child abuse, but some don't. They need to understand the seriousness of accusing someone of child abuse & not running the appropriate test .It destroys families.

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Dominique Robets
3 years ago

I'm going threw the samething right now I need help.

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Joia holloway
5 years ago

On 2/2/21 I delivered a baby boy Samuel Locke at southern regional medical center in Fulton County where he sustained several fractures. I was in hard labor for more than an hour and was given multiple petocin dosages. I was not able to push him out successfully the first 30 mins, so dr recommended more petocin and yoga ball to get baby in better position. Samuel was pushed out with no assist face up with both hands on his face. upon discharge 2/4/21 I noticed that my Childs left arm seemed limp (putting on his home clothes). I brought it to the attention of my fiancé then called the nurse. The nurse came in and said his arm looks fine then stated that he probably just needed a pacifier. As we were walking out my midwife was passing by and I asked her to look at the arm she said she really couldn’t because she’s not a pediatrician but stated that if he is eating and sleeping ok he should be ok but to make sure that I keep the pediatrician appointment that I have for him the next morning. The following morning (2/5/21) due to my diagnosis of covid I had to have a virtual visit with pediatrician who instructed me to take him to choa-eggleston. My mother came from out of town to take my son to choa and once they x rayed him they saw a fracture on the left arm above the elbow- which of course the trauma team and dfacs got involved. The team did a skeletal survey and mris and lots of other lab work. Samuel had to have surgery -3 pins put in his arm and a splint, They never gave me any paperwork for the labs and mris . I also never received anything stating they ruled out the hospital for birth injuries or other reasons. On 2/24 Samuel was scheduled for a splint removal and another skeletal survey. At the skeletal survey which was a bout an hour of them and my self holding him down. The X-ray techs put weights on his legs and made me and other techs hold and stretch out his legs (which Samuel cried the entire time) . Afterwards we went up stairs for the splint removal t

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