No, you did not read the whole story. We broke this story, and here is the history:
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Short summary:
The baby was born with Down Syndrome and a heart defect that is common among Down Syndrome babies. Many of these Down Syndrome kids with this heart defect either have it successfully repaired surgically later in life, or live just fine with no major medical intervention.
When CPS came in and seized the child, and his older sister, the baby HAD NO HEALTH ISSUES WHATSOEVER according to the family. The doctor visits the parents missed (and later made up) where routine for Down Syndrome babies, and not for any emergency or health issue.
It was only AFTER the baby was in Foster care, in the custody of the State, that he developed some viral infection that affected his heart. Vanderbilt proceeded to do multiple surgeries, and there is some suspicion at this point they botched things up, and maybe were using him for experimentation.
This required him to go on the ECMO machine for life support. And then on Memorial Day, a day where court was not in session, they told the family they were taking him off life support
the next day.
The story came to the attention of us at Health Impact News/MedicalKidnap.com, and we sacrificed our Memorial Day holiday to rush the story to press, putting public pressure on the Governor and State of Tennessee, and Vanderbilt Hospital. Local media also contacted us and began covering the story.
A temporary injunction was issued that day, but was not the same judge who was familiar with the case. The judge has reportedly stated that if they could find a doctor stating that the baby could live off of the machine with a heart transplant, they would prevent the hospital from taking him off life support.
As far as we know (we are still investigating this) all the doctors who came forward to look at the case never got a chance to even to talk to anyone at Vanderbilt.
They took the baby off life support.
So the parents never had any say in any of this, and when they tried to film his last moments of life, they were threatened with arrest and escorted out of the hospital.
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