I’m hitting a paywall.
Why did they never determine if it was the sitter or the parents?
Why no charges?
Why are the parents suing the city? On what grounds?
oops, I don't know why it's behind a paywall. Anyway, here is an excerpt from the article:
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On Oct. 17 2014, several days after little Hudson’s arrival at his parents’ $1.7 million condo in The Edge, on Williamsburg’s waterfront, Dipede and Jamieson, both 46, decided to go out. They left the boys with a baby nurse.
At about 9:30 p.m., the nurse found Hudson wasn’t breathing. Paramedics brought Hudson to Woodhull Hospital soon after where he was pronounced dead, the suit says.
Doctors at Woodhull “did not suspect any abuse or neglect.” But a pathologist for the city Medical Examiner’s office — “who had never previously performed an autopsy on an infant” — decided Hudson had been abused before even completing his examination, the parents claim.
The abuse allegation was ultimately referred to the Administration for Children’s Services. Investigators there spoke to Hudson’s pediatrician and a brain surgeon who told them that minor brain bleeds were “typical in premature infants … and were not a sign of child abuse.”
ACS removed Archer from the home, claiming his “life was consequently in danger if he remained.”
ACS did not respond to requests for comment. The city Medical Examiner maintains Hudson died from homicide by “abusive head trauma.”
A judge put Archer in the custody of a family friend and later Jameison’s parents. A family court judge on Nov. 6, 2014 tossed ACS’s push to take Archer from his parents.
The agency filed formal child abuse charges against the parents in Family Court that same day, the lawsuit maintains.
Eight months after he started the autopsy — while the parents were still fighting charges in Family Court — the pathologist finished and determined Hudson had died from homicide, specifically “violent shaking.” But he also found that the alleged trauma would have been suffered after 8:30 p.m. when the parents were away.
The pathologist mangled the procedure and “recklessly or intentionally destroyed portions of the (infant’s) body … including (Hudson’s) eyes and spinal cord, thereby precluding competent physicians from doing a second autopsy,” his parents say.
The ME’s office gave cops the report — prompting a criminal investigation. The parents were never charged with any crime. But ACS pursued family court charges against the parents for six months, which were ultimately dismissed."
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