Family Files Federal Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Police and Government for Medically Kidnapping Infant & Toddler at 1 a.m. in Home Invasion

Family Files Federal Lawsuit Against Massachusetts Police and Government for Medically Kidnapping Infant & Toddler at 1 a.m. in Home Invasion

Comments by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
A family who took their 3-month-old son to an emergency room in Waltham, Massachusetts last year at the advice of their pediatrician because the infant had a 103 degree fever, is now suing Waltham police and social workers who came to their home unannounced at 1 a.m. in the morning and forced their way into their home to remove both their 3-month-old baby and his 3-year-old brother, with no warrant, simply because an x-ray taken of the baby a couple of days earlier showed a healed fractured rib in the baby.
That was all it took for local authorities to medically kidnap their children, by forcing their way into the family’s home in the middle of the night and terrorizing the young children by kidnapping them and taking them away from their parents.
The parents were eventually cleared of all charges and their children were returned to them, but now the parents are suing to try and stop this from happening to other families.
This story has received national media attention, and The Pacific Legal Foundation has taken up their case and filed a federal lawsuit.

Alarmed by her three-month-old son’s 103-degree temperature and at the family pediatrician’s urging, graduate student Sarah Perkins brought baby Cal to a hospital emergency room just a few miles from their home in Waltham, Massachusetts. Sarah’s husband Josh Sabey, a documentary filmmaker, stayed home with the couple’s toddler, Clarence. 
Doctors at the hospital ordered an X-ray to check the ailing baby for pneumonia. To Sarah’s surprise, the scan revealed a roughly two-week-old, healed fracture on one of Cal’s ribs. That’s when a new nightmare began.
Hospital staff notified the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF), who immediately opened a child abuse investigation. A social worker aggressively interrogated Sarah, who had no idea how her son’s injury happened. After Sarah called home, Josh brought Clarence to the hospital and they too faced DCF’s questions.
Finally, after Sarah and Cal were kept overnight at the hospital, the family was allowed to return home. Although they would be required to check in with DCF in a couple of days, the couple believed the stressful episode was largely behind them.
But the next night around 1 a.m., DCF workers knocked on the family’s door. They were accompanied by Waltham police officers. Although they had no warrant or court order of any kind, DCF had decided to remove the children from the home. Sarah and Josh protested, but when police threatened to break down the door, the couple got their children out of bed. Baby Cal was still nursing, so Sarah got stored breast milk out of the refrigerator for DCF to take. The couple tried to keep three-year-old Clarence calm by telling him he was going on an adventure; but the boy, desperate to stay with his parents, soon began screaming. Undeterred, DCF took both children away into the night and placed them with a foster mother. (Source.)

Here is a video report from CBS Boston with actual video footage from the night the police broke into their home:




Sadly, this is a common story in the U.S. and not rare at all. We have covered dozens of these stories over the past several years.
Another story that received national media attention in 2019 happened in Arizona where a military SWAT-like operation with Arizona police broke down the door of a family at 1 AM because the parents did not take one of their children who had a fever to an emergency room at the request of a doctor.



The child was reportedly sleeping soundly and only had a fever of 100 degrees when the police and social workers arrived in the early morning hours. The family’s security camera captured the break-in which is why the story went viral and received national attention.
In our investigation of the story, we determined that the family may have been targeted by the medical mafia because they chose not to vaccinate their children. See:

Was Arizona Family that had Police Break Down Their Door at 1 A.M. Targeted by Medical Community Because They Don’t Vaccinate Their Children?

As we have reported over the years, taking your child to an emergency room is one of the most dangerous things parents can do these days, as there is a huge industry devoted to “medical child abuse” and “child abuse pediatricians” along with their “child abuse” teams which can only be funded and their salaries justified by finding “child abuse” in pediatric patients brought to the hospital.
Unsuspecting parents bring their child to the emergency room and often end up having x-rays taken of their child, and based solely on an x-ray these “child abuse” pediatric doctors will order a child be seized from their parents, even before an investigation can be conducted.
It is a horrific violation of constitutional rights, as even terrorists, rapists, murderers, etc. are afforded due process of law in the criminal justice system, but parents are not given those same rights in Family Court.
After a medical doctor suggests “child abuse”, the children are often ripped away from the parents without any charges even filed, and then they have to prove their innocence, which can take months or even years, to get their children back.
Here are some previous cases we have covered.



Baby love with Marty Peele. Photo courtesy Peele family.
In 2015 North Carolina mother Marty Peele contacted us after being arrested for “child abuse” because x-rays of her baby showed ribs that were broken and then healed. Local media were publishing stories about her and portraying her as an abusive, criminal mother.
We investigated her story and interviewed friends and family members, and then published her side of the story in December of 2015. The story got a lot of traffic, and about 3 months later producers of the Dr. Phil show contacted us seeking permission to use our article in a show they were preparing on Marty’s story.
Here is the Dr. Phil segment.




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