Police with guns drawn broke down the door of an Arizona home and ordered 3 children into the custody of the Dept. of Child Safety because the parents had refused to take their son with a fever to the hospital.
The report said that when officers entered the house, they found more than one of the children had vomited in their beds, there was"clutter everywhere," and they discovered a shotgun in the parents' bedroom that was not locked.
The parents are not facing criminal charges, but as of March 25, they still did not have their children back. State Rep. Kelly Townsend, who has worked on legislation requiring DCS to get a search warrant before removing a child from a home, called the incident a"miscarriage of justice and a shame to the State of Arizona."
"This mother is nearly 9 months pregnant and her baby will be born soon. I have great concern that DCS will also take this infant over a misdiagnosis by the Dr., who thought the child might have meningitis, when actually he had RSV ," Townsend said in a statement on March 25. "I call on DCS to immediately return the children who are also being traumatized due to this misdiagnosis," the statement said."The parents were correct, the doctor was wrong."and the Chandler Police Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment from NBC News.
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