Exclusive: RFK's Son Arrested in Westchester Hospital Maternity Unit Clash, Police Say
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/douglas-kennedy-arrrested-baby-westchester-RFK-son-140296403.htmlThe son of Robert F. Kennedy has been charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child for allegedly clashing with two nurses who tried to stop him from taking his 2-day-old baby boy from a Westchester maternity unit, NBC New York has learned.
According to a Mount Kisco, N.Y. police report obtained by NBC New York, Douglas Kennedy, 44, took his baby from the newborn unit of Northern Westchester Hospital on Jan. 7, against the instructions of hospital staff who told him the infant needed to stay there.
Kennedy was quietly arraigned on misdemeanor charges Thursday night.
Kennedy and his wife, Molly, disputed the accusations in a statement to NBC New York, saying "these allegations are absurd."
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Really? 
And we need a new rule...
If two DU'ers are going to argue about a story or article, both must read the complete piece first.
For us other bums just reading two people going back and forth it sucks 
It's like watching a horror movie and you scream at the tv, run outside, run outside, but NOOOOOOOOOOO- she still gets stabed in the back 
He worked in the ER, which was no where NEAR the maternity ward. Different role, different function. ER--first floor. Maternity--top floor.
I have a suggestion for you, to mitigate what clearly seems to be your over-controlling nature and prevent you from being upset and distraught over things on a message board that are not directed at you, but for some odd reason disturb you nonetheless--there is a button called HIDE THREAD. Poof--stuff that bothers you is ALL GONE. There is another button called IGNORE...that one is more like a surgeon's scalpel.
Either one will make your DU experience better and neither one will hurt my feelings, so punch away--much better than trying to tell other people what to do. See, you do have the tools--why don't YOU use them?
FWIW, I 'did' read the whole article, AND I watched the video.
If you'd been paying attention, you'd realize we don't have "rules" here anymore, new or otherwise.
Now, you toddle off and have one of those nice days, now.
When one uses the term facility the entire building is referenced. You don't have a different facilities mgmt. for each floor LOL. I guess since this happened in your home state is why you are all over it Just wanting you folks to read everything before getting into it. Us viewers want both parties to be as fully informed as possible.
You should be proud actually
message boards is fun LOL, what one calls snark another may call wit and sarcasm
Give it up.
that once he was in the elevator and free of her, he turned and maliciously kicked her for sport?
What I am suggesting is that if you are holding onto something and pulling, and you lose your grip, you will go flying. That something could have been his arm. It could have been the door. I have gone flying hard just trying to pull out a weed, for cripes sake.
As far as give it up, all you have proven so far is that Kennedy is (gasp) related to Skakel and (gasp) works for the enemy.
Give it up yourself. His family connections to Skakel mean he's guilty of anything he's accused of, end of story. The very reason I left Massachusetts.
kly, hospital policies are their rules and not exactly local, state or federal law.
Why did the nurse get into a physical altercation with a man carrying his own baby. Code Pink locks down the hospital. Nobody leaves. He wasn't going anywhere, so she didn't need to grab onto him or grab for the baby.
Her physical intervention, from what I've read, led to him falling down while holding his baby, putting his baby at much greater risk than the elevator ride would have. That showed very poor judgement, imho. It may even have violated hospital policy -- I know that outside the maternity ward, we are specifically instructed NOT to directly intervene during a code pink, but watch out our window and only get a description and report to security if we see somebody with a suspicious bundle or package.
Since she "went flying" and landed on her back and he apparently simultaneously fell on his butt. I t seems to me entirely possible that somebody was pulling on somebody, lost his or her grip and they both fell down.
6+ weeks later, he is charged, accused of kicking a nurse and twisting the arm of another nurse, and the nurses are suing him.
The hospital supports the nurse's version. Not surprising.
The video does not show anybody kicking anybody.
The ER doctor who was there disputes the hospital's (and his employer's) claim and says Kennedy never kicked or was violent toward anybody.
The baby's mother who was there disputes the hosptial's claim, but that is not surprising.
The nurse who claims to have been kicked told her husband she was "stunned to be in a scrap with Douglas Kennedy."
My question is was she "stunned to be in a scrap" period or "stunned to be in a scrap with Kennedy?" In other words, not stunned to be in an altercation, but just at the specific person.
I can't view the video, didn't witness the discussion,and have only read the various sides. I don't know that it is a case of "arrogant entitlement" or just several people used to having their own way getting into an argument that escalated into a fight. Which, after the fact, the poorer of the people see an opportunity to sue the wealthy one.
As far as I'm concerned, the jury is still out and I'm open to all possibilities. I refuse to convict him ahead of a trial, based on his wealth or his connections.
they probably arrogantly thought that once they got permission at the nurses' station, that their planned walk was ok.
Also, it turns out he never was walking around with the baby off the ward. One nurse approached yelling and blocked the elevator. So he headed to the stairs. The other nurse lunged toward him there. He lifted his leg in self-defense, which is when she fell down.
According to the ER doctor who actually witnessed it, he never yelled. According to the ER doctor -- who has to work with those nurses and their associates at this hospital -- the nurses were the aggressors.
The facts are coming out, and it's looking to me like hospital overreach.
Yes, there are policies. But he didn't put the nurses in that position. He got permission at the nurses' station. It's not his fault that somebody mistakenly gave him permission. It's also not his fault that somebody else came running up to him yelling at him.
And running up to a possible child abductor and yelling at them is NOT smart. Unfortunately, people do bring weapons into hospitals.
I'm increasingly thinking the nurses effed up here. Actually working in a hospital, you learn that the policies are not always clear and they get changed. They also vary from one hospital to the next, and people forget which policy the current hospital uses. So people make policy mistakes all the time. And then somebody else comes along and makes the first mistake worse, and the situation escalates.
They may be the "authority figures" but they do not own you, policies are not laws, and that doesn't give *them* the right to be rude or aggressive. But then, I work in a hospital and I know first hand how unnecessarily rude and obnoxious some of the staff can be. More than once, I've been yelled at by a nurse for supposedly making a mistake endangering her patient, when the facts proved that the nurse was the one who had made the mistake. So I know they are not little gods and goddesses.
