(WSVN) – A South Florida mom’s kids had been taken away by the Florida Division of Youngsters and Households. She says a medical situation resulted in her infants’ damaged bones, however DCF officers consider they had been abused. 7’s Heather Walker investigates.
Tasha Patterson will get emotional each time she appears into her twin sons’ cribs.
Tasha misplaced custody of her infants simply months after they had been born. She was accused of abusing them.
Tasha Patterson: “No, I didn’t abuse my infants.”
Tasha is a nurse practitioner. She says early on, she knew one thing was unsuitable together with her sons.
Tasha Patterson: “They might have these spurts of elevated fussiness that we didn’t perceive why.”
She took the twins to docs, even visited the emergency room greater than a dozen occasions.
Each physician dismissed her considerations.
Tasha Patterson: “I child you not. Really, it’s documented within the medical document that I used to be ‘only a involved mother,’ one thing alongside these traces.”
However it was her final journey to the ER, due to a wierd bruise that modified her life.
Tasha Patterson: “Then the medical workforce is available in, they begin telling me, ‘Your child has rib fractures.’ That’s once I discovered he has rib fractures. ‘And he has a small grade 1 liver laceration.’ They’d my second twin introduced in. He had fractures all over the place.”
Tasha and her husband had been accused of kid abuse. Their parental rights had been terminated, and DCF took custody of the infants.
Tasha Patterson: “My infants are a statistic once they shouldn’t be. As a result of they had been by no means abused. They had been by no means maltreated. It by no means occurred.”
Shortly after the boys had been taken, Tasha had well being problems with her personal. She was recognized with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, or EDS, a dysfunction that causes straightforward bruising and fragile bones.
She discovered it may be handed on from father or mother to youngster.
Tasha Patterson: “The controversy that surrounds any such EDS is that you could diagnose kids, however not beneath the age of 4.”
Tasha had the twins’ medical data reviewed by prime EDS specialists. They agreed she probably handed EDS onto her twins.
However regardless of these skilled opinions, Tasha’s legal professional says DCF received’t return the kids.
Octavia Brown, Tasha’s Legal professional: “It’s DCF’s job to say, ‘That is the proof, and we all know, clearly and convincingly, that these kids have been abused.’ In our opinion, they didn’t meet that customary.”
Mother and father who go EDS onto their infants have confronted abuse allegations throughout the nation.
A younger father in Arkansas was arrested after his son’s X-rays confirmed bone fractures. Rana Tyson and her husband in Texas fought abuse costs for 2 years.
Rana Tyson: “And so, then they ended up coming to us and making an attempt to terminate our parental rights.”
It prompted her to start out the Fractured Households Basis, which helps dad and mom combat the battle, and offers recommendation on what to do when they’re accused of abuse.
Rana Tyson: “I wish to shorten that journey for them. I wish to simply supply the recommendation that I can supply.”
Tasha is hoping somebody at DCF will hearken to her story.
Tasha Patterson: “We’re happening two years, and I’m not going away till my kids are in a position to be again on this home. I’m not going away.”
Tasha and her husband misplaced their first enchantment to regain custody of their sons. They’re heading again to court docket quickly, and so they hope it’s sufficient to lastly reunite their household.
Heather Walker, 7News.
7 Investigates did attain out to DCF concerning the Patterson infants, however nobody from the company has responded.
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