"Baby is taken from parents after social workers ‘mistook rickets for child abuse’': Appeal court waiting for medical report. Yorkshire Post;

STORY: "Baby is taken away from parents after social workers 'mistook rickets for child abuse," published in the Yorkshire Post on 21 September, 2012.

GIST: "Vitamin  supplements in baby milk led to an innocent couple being condemned for battering their month-old baby, a top family judge has heard. An extraordinary sequence of medical events led to a case of congenital rickets being viewed as horrific child abuse by social workers, experts and a judge, and the baby boy being taken from his distraught family and put up for adoption. Now, however, the parents have been given a final chance to get back their little boy - now aged almost three - from the care system. This comes after lawyers had a “light bulb moment” and understood the full significance of the youngster’s medical records.........The local authority involved in the case had informed the Appeal Court that suitable adoptive parents have already been found for the two-year-old boy, but no further steps in the process would be taken prior to the court ruling on the case. The case is set to return to the Appeal Court once the expert medical report has been obtained. In December last year, figures obtained by the Yorkshire Post revealed a sharp increase in the number of cases of rickets across the region." The entire story can be found at:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/baby-is-taken-from-parents-after-social-workers-mistook-rickets-for-child-abuse-1-4945568

  PUBLISHER'S NOTE:

I am monitoring this case. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments.

The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:

http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith

Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at:

http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html

Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog.