Fight CPS And Win
Fighting Child Protective Services
False Accusations
Published in three parts:
October 24, October 31, and November 7, 1991
Enterprise News, Pixley, California
Used by permission of the publisher.
By An Anonymous Mother
PART III
Published November 7, 1991
This is the account of the baby's mother. It is dated according to when things happened in the life of little Jimmie and written in a very matter-of-fact style, similar to a diary.
Last two weeks we learned of little Jimmie's constant visits to doctors and hospitals through his first two weeks of life and his parents' shock when charges of sexual abuse were made against them.
The case was dismissed because there was no evidence of physical or sexual abuse, but little Jimmie's medical problems were not cured.
8-27-91: Took Jimmie to Dr. Rao again because Jimmie was bleeding through the rectum again. This time I took the bloody diaper down with me so maybe Dr. Rao would believe me about the blood on his diaper. I showed him and he immediately told me to get up to Dr. Davis in Fresno. So he set the appointment up for 8-28-91 at 8 a.m.
Jimmie weighed 8 pounds, 11 1/2 ounces.
8-28-91: Went to Fresno to see Dr. Judy Davis. We got there and Dr. Davis examined Jimmie and then said she wanted to admit him to Valley Children's Hospital so that she could monitor him and find out what was wrong with him.
She told me that she was going to take a scope test down his throat and through his rectum.
So we admitted him that morning. When they got a room ready for him we went to it. Then there were several doctors that came in to ask questions. They asked what was wrong with him.
I told them what had been happening with Jimmie. Then they asked my family background. Then they all left and briefly explained the scope procedure of the scope test.
8-29-91: Early in the morning Mom and I went to see Jimmie in the hospital. When we arrived Jimmie had IVs hooked up to him. Dr. Davis had already done the scope test on him, so my mother and I stayed all day long at the hospital. All the rest of the day they did tests on Jimmie. I don't know what they all took but they took tests on him all day long.
8-30-91: Jimmie is still in the hospital. My mother and I came in real early to spend the day with him. They were still doing a lot of tests on him. We got some of the test results back but not all of them. The ones that did come back they said were negative.
The rest of the test results came back and they said they were negative. They told me that he would be able to go home in just a few days.
8-31-91: Jimmie is still in the hospital. My mother and I got up there early in the morning. They had the IV out today. They told me he could go home tomorrow.
9-1-91: Jimmie was released today.
9-4-91: Took Jimmie to Lindsay Hospital to the emergency room in the afternoon because he was running a high fever. While he was at Lindsay Hospital they did a spinal test on him and did some blood work. At Dr. Davis' request they also did a stool test on him and it came back positive. Then that night they took him in an ambulance to Valley Children's Hospital. He was admitted that night there.
9-5-91: My mother and I left for a couple of hours because my mother had to go take care of my grandma for a few minutes. When we got back, the doctors told me they had to do emergency surgery on Jimmie because they thought he had a punctured bowel. So then I signed the form to give them permission to do the surgery. They took Jimmie to the surgery room and me and my mother waited until it was done.
When they were done we went into the room to see him and they then told me they had to do a transfusion on him. They gave him two.
In a couple of hours they took him to his room. We stayed there until late that night with him.
9-6-91: Went in early in the morning to see Jimmie. When I was there doctors kept coming in and telling me there was something else wrong with him. They also told me they thought someone had rammed something up his rectum. That was when they thought my husband had molested Jimmie. I told them there was no way my husband had done that. That was the day they arrested my husband.
9-7-91: Jimmie is still in the hospital. Me and my mother went to see Jimmie. Then they told us about all the fractures.
9-12-91: Jimmie was released from the hospital to a foster home. There I met the lady that took the baby. There the social worker, Karen Wride, told me that the lady that was getting Jimmie was his new mother.
Also during this whole time since Jimmie was born he was very fussy and cranky. He was always crying.
Jimmie also had a lot of trouble with formulas. 1) He started on Similac. 2) Then went to Isomil with iron. 3) Then Isomil with low-iron, 4) Then Gerber, 5) Then back to Similac, 6) Then SMA, 7) Then Gerber again, 8) Then he was put on Nutrimigen.
Editor's Note: Due to the length and complexity of this young mother's diary we couldn't fit it all in just one newspaper. We felt that condensing down this story into a "normal" newspaper article would be robbing you, our readers, of the chance to really understand it from the mother's perspective.
We believe that the writer deserves a byline for her excellent writing, but can't identify the family since there are many complex legal issues still to be resolved, that could subject her and her husband to unnecessary risks. They have already been subjected to abuse and harassment because of the nature of the unproven charges against them.