cops kick in door. Take toddler with fever

[Demovictory9]

Guns drawn, police officers in tactical gear kicked down the door of the home after 1am and found their target: a 2-year-old boy thought to have a fever. It was "an abuse of power," Arizona Rep. Kelly Townsend tells KNXV of the scene in Chandler last month. The unvaccinated boy had a fever of 105 degrees when his mother visited a naturopathic doctor, who told her to take him to the emergency room, on Feb. 25, per ABC News. Sarah Beck says the fever subsequently broke, so the two instead returned home. When the doctor learned the boy hadn't been taken to the ER, she notified the Arizona Department of Child Safety, which contacted Chandler Police. Officers say the boy's parents refused to open their door for a welfare check around 10:30pm. They forcibly entered after DCS obtained a court order to seize the child due to a "possible life-threatening illness."

The boy was taken to a hospital and diagnosed with an upper respiratory infection, not meningitis as the doctor suspected, Townsend tells KNXV. "Parents felt the child was fine. Next thing we know, the Gestapo is at their door," she adds, per the Arizona Republic, noting the parents "may have been targeted by the medical community because they hadn't vaccinated their children." He and his two sisters, ages 4 and 6, are currently in the custody of their grandparents. The parents hope to regain custody at an April hearing. "To be bothered in the middle of the night by DCS was not something we were ready to tackle," they say in a statement. "Nobody, especially children, should have to go through what we are going through." It's been "a very traumatic experience."

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[Downtown Hound]

1. The kid had a 105 degree fever and the idiot parents took it to a "naturopathic" doctor?

and refused advice to take it to an emergency room?

Sorry, but not going to jump on the "gestapo pigs" bandwagon here. If this child had died, everybody would be wondering, "where were the cops?"

[Bettie]

3. And the parents would be looking for someone

to sue over the death.

[marylandblue]

2. Sorry, but this one is on the parents.

If a doctor says your child may have meningitis, you must go immediately to the ER and he has to report it to the Health Department. Going home puts the child and everyone he comes in contact with in danger.

[marybourg]

4. Yep. Not going along with the indignation delegation. The parents were

neglectful and lucky. Next time they, and the child and the whole community will not be as lucky

[demmiblue]

5. Shitty source. n/t

[jmowreader]

6. No dear...

The medical community didn't "target" this family because they hadn't vaccinated their kid (although arguably they should have), they "targeted" this family because their kid was in the middle of a full-blown Medical Emergency.

DCS did the right thing for once.

[jberryhill]

7. Arizona Police Prevent Mother Attempting to Kill Her Child

You mis-spelled the subject line.

A 105 degree fever?

Jesus, that kid is lucky.