Our son and daughter were taken from us 1 year ago. We’ve been separated from them for 378 days and counting. We were separated by the State of Oregon. When Rebel was 2 months old, we took him to Randall’s children’s hospital, upon evaluation we discovered that our 2 month old son had fractures of various ages.

We met with Dr. Adewusi from Cares NW, she dismissed the endocrinological and Vitamin-D explanations for my son’s fractures. She and the hospital dismissed my son’s blue sclera and lab abnormalities. They ignored the large volumes of spit up our son would have after feeding.

We were discharged from the hospital under the supervision of my mother. 3 weeks later we were living a nightmare. We received a phone call stating child protective services were taking our children. They claimed our children were in danger. They claimed this was an emergency.

CPS Reason:
We had caused our son’s fractures. Our son never had any bruising or swelling. If we had caused the fractures why did they wait 3 weeks before removing our children from our care? Cps has provided no evidence that we are abusive or neglectful parents. We have provided medical explanations. You would think after all of this was presented that CPS would admit their error and back down.

Instead CPS dug in their heels and have refused to admit their mistake. The judge and CPS have closed their eyes to the facts and Oregon will not give up Jurisdiction. We are living a nightmare
Cps protects thousands of children, but they’re destroying our family. Our children don’t need protection from us, they need protection from CPS.
DHS states that the etiology of fractures are the basis for separation, while DHS REFUSED to recognize significant evidence of the medical etiology that explains the fractures. Our medical experts have diagnosed our son with a metabolic bone disorder. The experts we have are the following. 

1.) Neonatologist (One who writes guidelines for the American academy of pediatrics.

2.) Endocrinologist (One who is internationally known, who has studied bone health for NASA for 35 years, and who found the active form of Vitamin D “Calciferol”) 

3.) Naturopath (In Oregon, naturopaths have the same rights as MD’s) 

4.) Radiologist (This particular one works for both the offense and defense) 

5.) Orthopedic Surgeon 

All these doctors and still they will NOT accept any medical evidence that clears us, on the contrary, the DA at our last hearing has stated the following, due to them thinking the grandmother who is fostering our children is trying to get a second opinion. He said

“although it doesn’t warrant an immediate removal of the children, in home visitation is not recommended due to the grandmother trying to get a second opinion to absolve the parents from any guilt” 

Our son having low vitamin D would predispose him to fractures from normal handling. Bronte has EDS (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome) and Gabriel has Neurofibromatosis 1, both of which have been associated with bone fragility, especially if it’s coupled with vitamin d deficiency which our son was in the severely deficient range. Blue sclera is also a heavy indicator of another genetic condition known as osteogenesis imperfecta. Doctors have stated that our children’s sclera is nothing noteworthy. There is also an EDS/OI (Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and Osteogenesis imperfecta) overlap syndrome. 

DHS has heavily implied that if the foster parent doesn’t cooperate with DHS they will take our children away and place them in foster care with strangers. They have recently allowed our son to get genetically tested but have stated that we are not allowed to attend. The judge is worried about us giving the doctor “tainted information.” CPS is allowed to go to monitor our children’s foster parent to make sure she doesn’t mention any of our genetic conditions and to give their side which is already contradictory. This is medically kidnapping.