Cops Barge Into Calif. Parents’ Home, Take Their Baby After They Seek 2nd Medical Op.

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Crazy stuff

A California couple had their five-month-old baby “snatched” by police after they took the infant to get a second opinion on a medical procedure, they claim.

Anna and Alex Nikolayev are described as loving parents who took their baby, who has a heart murmur, to Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento when he started exhibiting flu-like symptoms. The family has undergone plenty of doctor visits in the last five months for the their son’s heart, and were unsettled by the treatment he was receiving.

At one point, Anna says, a nurse came in and started giving the baby, named Sammy, medicine. When she asked what it was the nurse allegedly replied, “I don’t know.”

“I’m like, you’re working as a nurse, and you don’t even know what to give to my baby…?” Anna said in an interview with ABC’s local affiliate, News10/KXTV.

They later found out that medicine was antibiotics, which Anna claims the doctor told her Sammy shouldn’t have received.

After doctors started discussing heart surgery, the Nikolayevs decided they wanted a second opinion. They weren’t categorically opposed to the procedure, but they wanted a different doctor.

“If we got the one mistake after another, I don’t want to have my baby have surgery in the hospital where I don’t feel safe,” Anna explained.

The doctors at Sutter Memorial allegedly argued against consulting other health experts, pressuring her to stay put. Anna remained firm. She took her baby from the hospital without a proper discharge, and went straight to Kaiser Permanente Hospital.

Doctors there said the baby was safe to go home with his parents, one writing in the paperwork: “I do not have concern for the safety of the child at home with his parents.”

But while they were at the hospital, police showed up.

“They told us that Sutter was telling them so much bad stuff that they thought that this baby is dying on our arms,” Anna recalled. But when police saw the doctor’s evaluation, Anna says they said, “Okay guys, you have a good day,” and left.

But the family wasn’t at peace for long.

The next day police showed up at the Nikolayev’s home with representatives from Child Protective Services (CPS). Alex went outside to meet them, where he says he was “pushed against the building.” When he asked if he was being placed under arrest, he said they “smacked me down onto the ground [and] yelled out, ‘I think I got the keys to the house.’”

Seeing the scene outside, Anna set up a camera in front of her door.

Video shows police letting themselves in without a warrant, and taking the baby.

“I’m going to grab your baby, and don’t resist, and don’t fight me okay?” one officer can be heard telling the mother in the video.

Anna described it with tears in her eyes: “He’s like, ‘okay let your son go,’ so I had to let him go, and he grabbed my arm, so I couldn’t take Sammy. And they took Sammy, and they just walked away.”

A number of news agencies have reached out to police, the hospital, and child protective services, but none has spoken out on the issue. News10, which has worked on the story at length, says police and the hospital both referred questions to Child Protective Services, which said it can’t comment on specific cases because of privacy laws.

Anna says she was told by a CPS worker that her baby was taken because of “severe neglect.”

The couple can’t believe the rationale, saying: “We did everything…We went from one hospital to another. We just wanted to be safe, that he is in good hands.”

“It seems like parents have no rights whatsoever,” Alex said. Originally from Russia, he said the situation reminds him of a “communist regime.”

The couple’s attorney, Joe Weinberger, remarked: “It’s absolutely amazing to me how a government can reach out and snatch a child after a doctor said there’s not an issue…As we’ve seen, there is no emergency situation in this case…I can’t imagine having my baby ripped from my arms.”

He acknowledges that the couple erred in taking their baby from Sutter Memorial without a proper discharge, but it has now been roughly two weeks since the situation began. Anna says she was able to visit her baby for an hour last Thursday.

A court date has been scheduled for today, Monday April 29. TheBlaze will keep you posted as the story develops.

And the follow up story

The 5-month-old baby boy who was seized by authorities in Sacramento, Calif. will be transferred to a Bay Area hospital for further medical evaluation, a court ruled Monday. However, the baby’s parents are celebrating a victory as they can now see him whenever they want and will be in charge of all the child’s medical decisions moving forward.

A detainment order has been lifted, but Child Protective Services (CPS) will continue to monitor the case, KXTV reports. The court also ruled that the parents must follow all future medical advice, including not removing their child from Stanford Medical Center without proper discharge.

“A county social worker will make regular house visits to check on Sammy once he is returned home,” the report adds.

“It’s like a special day for us. It’s like we’re in a unit with our son again,” the baby’s mother, Anna Nikolayev, said. “We’re just not going to let go anymore.”

As TheBlaze reported earlier on Monday, Anna and Alex Nikolayev say they had their baby “snatched” by police after they took their child to get a second opinion on a medical procedure. The Russian couple took the baby from Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento without a proper discharge, which ultimately led to their son being taken from them.

The baby, Sammy Nikolaev, has been in protective custody since April 24 when police and officials with CPS took him from his parents following the hospital dispute. CPS officials say they removed the child due to “severe neglect.”

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Not only am I offended by the actions of the officers and the state, but the judge was wrong as well. They already had a second opinion that proved they were right. The whole case should have been thrown out and the officers punished for violating the couple's fourth amendment rights among other things.

 

[daniel1daniel2]

In my opinion that would be considered kidnapping

 

[Lurkerinthewoods]

Someone living in the State of California should expect no less to happen.

 

[reddog1]

That would be time to engage

 

[10Seconds]

Child services like that are today's Gestapo in the US.

With a bit of research you will see this scenario is the norm not an exception. They barge in without a warrant, seize the kids and you are left to try and prove your innocence. Its despicable.

 

[Arin Morris]

How would this go over if they kicked your door in and you shot them? No warrant, no entry. IMO it's a home invasion.

 

[grizzly97]

How would this go over if they kicked your door in and you shot them? No warrant, no entry. IMO it's a home invasion.

accompanied by kidnapping...

 

[caojyn]

How would this go over if they kicked your door in and you shot them? No warrant, no entry. IMO it's a home invasion.

Thats why castle doctrine should be expanded to include LEOs, nationwide.

 

[austin.brown]

I would be dead or in jail...probably dead.

 

[10Seconds]

How would this go over if they kicked your door in and you shot them? No warrant, no entry. IMO it's a home invasion.

My guess is that it would go poorly for you. If they ever try that crap on me though, I will let you know how it works out.