on July 16, DCF workers and police officers knocked at their door to take both sons away. DCF social workers made a surprise visit and found no evidence of abuse, according to the lawsuit.ĭays later, around 1 a.m. They returned to their Waltham, Massachusetts, home. “It was such a roller coaster - this total terror that we're going to lose this child at the hospital and then complete relief after we're allowed to go home with a safety plan,” Perkins said. He slipped, and she caught him with one arm.Ĭiting the fracture, hospital officials reported potential abuse to the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families. After speaking with the boy's grandmother, they learned the injury may have happened weeks earlier as she removed Cal from a car seat. He had a 103-degree fever.Īn X-ray checking for pneumonia found a rib fracture the couple hadn't noticed.
On July 13, 2022, Perkins whisked their 3-month-old son Cal to an emergency room. The children were taken in Massachusetts because of a child abuse report stemming from a hospital visit. The couple hopes for a favorable ruling that will increase oversight of child removals nationwide. What followed was emotional anguish, a bureaucratic battle, vindication for the parents and a lawsuit filed earlier this month by a legal advocacy group. It’s the kind of harrowing scene that plays out daily across the country as social workers motivated by a desire to protect children run up against confused and concerned parents. BOSTON – When child welfare workers and police knocked on Sarah Perkins’ and Joshua Sabey’s front door well past midnight one weekend last summer, the parents were shocked to learn the state of Massachusetts had come to take their two young sons.
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