The right of parents to determine the course of medical treatment for their children has suffered yet another slap in the face.
On April 29, 2013, a hearing took place regarding the Gestapo style abduction by Child Protective Services of 5 month old baby Sammy after his parents, Alex and Anna Nikolayev, took him out of Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento.
They left Sutter Memorial in order to seek a second opinion at Kaiser Permanente, a rival hospital, for Sammy’s flu-like symptoms.
Anna and Alex sought medical treatment at Kaiser because they were extremely concerned about the quality of care baby Sammy was receiving at Sutter Memorial.
When doctors at Sutter Memorial began discussing the possibility of heart surgery for the infant, the alarmed parents took the baby and left as the medical staff would not discharge Sammy so they could seek another opinion regarding the child’s heart murmur.
“If we got the one mistake after another, I don’t want to have my baby have surgery in the hospital where I don’t feel safe,” Anna said.
She added, ”We went from one hospital to another. We just wanted to be safe, that he is in good hands.”
While at the second hospital, medical staff determined Sammy was fine. The attending doctor at Kaiser said in a written statement, “I do not have concern for the safety of the child at home with his parents.”
Despite the all clear from the medical staff at Kaiser, CPS escorted by armed police showed up at the Nikolayev’s home the next day and took baby Sammy in outrageous and dramatic fashion.
Anna’s home video of the incident shows police entering the home.
“I’m going to grab your baby, and don’t resist, and don’t fight me ok?” a Sacramento police officer is heard saying in the video.
Prior to abducting the baby without so much as a warrant, Alex was slammed against a wall, pushed to the ground and his house keys forcibly removed from him after meeting with officers outside.
Worst of all, after taking the baby, CPS returned the child to the protective custody of the exact same hospital the parents had originally fled to seek a second medical opinion – Sutter Memorial – for wanting to perform unnecessary open heart surgery on the infant.
Court Hearing a Slap in the Face to Parent Rights
At a hearing on the matter, Sacramento Superior Court Judge Paul Seave determined that custody should be immediately returned to the parents.
The Nikolayevs can now see Sammy whenever they want. They also supposedly now have full control over the child’s medical decisions.
In reality, however, the Nikolayevs are still under the thumb of CPS and their rights as parents continue to be violated.
Rather than the child returning home where the parents would continue under the care of medical staff at Kaiser Permanente which was their original choice, baby Sammy was transferred by court order to yet a third hospital – Stanford Medical Center.
The judge also ruled that Anna and Alex must follow all medical advice from now on, including not taking their child from Stanford Medical Center without proper discharge.
Why are Anna and Alex being forced to follow the medical advice of Stanford Medical Center and not the medical staff at Kaiser Permanente who determined the child was safe at home for the time being?
Why is this child still in the hospital and not at home and under the supervision of the medical staff the parents originally chose?
Most alarming, Child Protective Services is still involved with this case even after its Gestapo style abduction of the child as captured on home video.
While Sammy will be returned to the custody of his parents upon discharge from Stanford Medical Center, CPS will continue to monitor the situation with regular home visits by a social worker.
Why is CPS being permitted by the court to monitor this child when the parents did nothing wrong?
Inexplicably, Alex and Anna are still vulnerable to future action by CPS for the “crime” of seeking the medical care for Sammy that they saw fit.
Welcome to Soviet Amerika comrades.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Sources: Judge Orders Transport of Baby Sammy to Stanford Medical Center
Baby Taken By CPS Returned, Parents Ordered To ‘Follow All Medical Advice’
Yes, but totally their decision nontheless, 3rd opinion or not. The baby was TAKEN before that could even be discussed.
Because they have dual citizenship in America and Russia and that way they would find more freedom.
Can you imagine? Fleeing America for the protection that Russia provides? Is this the United States of America?
They are “allowed” to visit their own child. They are being punished for not following procedures to check him out of the first hospital. But they were not going to be allowed to check him out I am sure. I think they did the right thing leaving the hospital with him. The baby is being seen at Stanford Hospital and will get his surgery there. The parents are humbling themselves and cooperating to get their child back and have agreed for CPS to visit. This is what they have to do to get that monster off their back. No. It’s not right.
They are American citizens. Why would they want to leave their country.
In response to “we did this”.
This has been being done way before I arrived on the scene. We are now seeing the result of years of indoctrination and a rejection of God. People have been selling their birthrights for a piece of bread for a longtime! The lies are not so quiet anymore! Now the burden of so much lies with this generation. But if we do nothing then we pass this mess and more, on to the next generation and those will be scary times indeed! They will not thank us! History books will look back at us, though and wonder why people didn’t see the writing on the wall! We are being bullied and fear is a great motivator. Oppression though will break the backs of people and thats when people rise up, when they have nothing to lose. Right now it’s happening to someone else, just wait until it is the reality for us all! If we do nothing, that is what is coming. Slowly maybe, but surely!
She was allowed toleave the 2nd hospital. Instead of going home they could have went to a 3rd. Im curious what the babys murmer diagnosis is. Thats the key here
No, the key is that we are losing our rights!!!! These parents acted responsibly. Perhaps CPS should monitor your child to be sure that you are making all of the ‘proper’ choices for your baby? Perhaps they should step in, call the police who can then shove your husband to the wall and forcibly take your child and then tell you if you should get 1st, 2nd and 3rd opinions. I’m trying with you here with you Ashley, I think you are a caring person and just need to pay closer attention to what you are saying.
But the government, and the mainstream media want people to be “donors” of children, not parents. It’s a very scary proposition: parents allow children to be raised by the state, the state creates the kind of person they want, and then, not very many generations down the line, the state tells adults exactly what to do, eat, think, be. All of this is usually in the name of education , safety, or what they refer to as progress.
Stacey some heart murmers are definantly emergency situations. My daughter was 3 months old when the doctors finally heard her murmer and she was in such bad shape at that point that when they put her on the jet to life flight her from Tulsa to Dallas they told me she might not make it. My daughters defect, cor triatriatum, kills 75% of babies by the time they are 2 weeks old if they dont get surgery. Some murmers are emergencies.
Your experience does not translate to Anna’s situation.
It is clear that these parents were acting responsibly based on the fact that they went to the hospital in the first place with a trust that the hospital would do its job properly (it didn’t) and left when they became aware of negligence on the hospital’s part and went directly to another hospital. CPS had no place in this situation, nor did the police for that matter. The judge did NOT set things straight.
She wasn’t even allowed by the hospital to get a second without calling CPS, how was she going to get a third?