A baby at the center of a protective services custody controversy has been ordered by a Sacramento County Judge Monday to be transferred to Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto for further evaluation.
Child Protective Services (CPS) took away a Russian-origin couple's 5-month-old baby boy after doctors stated concern over the child's safety with his parents last week. The child, Sammy, was kept under protective custody at Sutter Memorial Hospital.
Earlier, Anna and Alex Nikolayev had taken their baby, Sammy, to the Sutter Memorial hospital in Sacramento, after the child showed symptoms of flu.
But the parents were worried about the treatment given to the baby. Anna saw a nurse giving antibiotics to Sammy, and when she questioned her about it, the nurse was clueless. The doctors later confirmed that the antibiotic was not required. However, the doctors told the parents that the child would have to undergo a heart surgery at the earliest. This made the couple want to seek a second opinion for their son. But the doctors were completely against it.
Sammy also suffers from heart murmur and was getting treatment at the Sutter Memorial.
FoxNews reported that the Nikolayevs took their son without proper discharge to Kaiser Medical Center for a second opinion and had to face police, supposedly called by the Sutter Memorial staff. Physicians at the Kaiser Medical Center said that they were not worried about the child's safety and the parents took him home.
But, a day later, the police along with the CPS officials went without a warrant to the Nikolayev's house and took Sammy away from them.
A camera set up at the Nicolayev house captured the entire event. A police officer, in the video, is heard saying to Anna, "I'm going to grab your baby, and don't resist, and don't fight me, okay?"
The judge has also ordered the parents to follow all medical advice and proper discharge procedures henceforth.
News10 reported that a county social worker will regularly visit the Nikolayev's place to keep a check on Sammy after his arrival.
"It's like a special day for us. It's like we're in a unit with our son again," Anna told News10. "We're just not going to let go anymore."
