A woman in Texas is working to get her son back from Child Protective Services after officers reportedly took him without a court order.
Joslyn Sanders told Fox 4 News that her 2-year-old son, Josiah, was taken into the custody of CPS last December right after she took him to the hospital.
Sanders said she took Josiah to a children’s hospital in Dallas after he developed a rash on his foot that started to swell. She believed the rash formed due to a reaction from a new laundry detergent she used.
A doctor recommended she give Josiah a medicine called clindamycin, but she told Fox 4 News she wasn’t comfortable with administering that antibiotic “since it is reserved for more severe infections.”
She left the hospital against medical advice and decided to take Josiah to a pediatrician.
Despite medical records from that hospital visit stating there was “no indication of child abuse or negligence,” CPS officers and police came to Sanders’ apartment in the Dallas suburb of Corinth the day after the visit and took Josiah.
CPS told Sanders that they were responding to a report from the hospital that stated Josiah was malnourished.
However, Corinth Police Chief Jerry Garner told Fox 4 News that police officers didn’t see any signs of malnourishment.
“They did not observe anything that would indicate the child was in imminent danger. They observed the child would eat, and drink. They saw a rash, but they did not see an emergency,” Garner said. “They did not see anything obvious to indicate the child was malnourished.”
