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To: mkjessup

I guess that you are biased to the conservative point of view, so maybe you should not discuss conservative issues.Only liberal should discuss conservatism? Is that your view? I am biased, so I have no opinion?
I work in hospitals, I know the policy and procedures, I know Kennedy broke the rules.
He is going to jail. I hope the whole clan could go to jail. They have tried to ruin this country. Their elitism is evident in this incident.


114 posted on 02/26/2012 1:26:26 PM PST by kaila
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To: kaila
I guess that you are biased to the conservative point of view, so maybe you should not discuss conservative issues.Only liberal should discuss conservatism? Is that your view? I am biased, so I have no opinion?

You're biased as Hell against Douglas Kennedy and the man hasn't even had a trial yet on his misdemeanor offenses.

I work in hospitals, I know the policy and procedures, I know Kennedy broke the rules.

But you didn't work in the hospital where this event took place, and I say Kennedy is entitled to his day in court and to be presumed innocent of what he has been charged with. Your experience as a nurse has blinded you to any semblance of fair play, you've already convicted Kennedy which is a fine fascist way to view the situation, looks good on you.

He is going to jail. I hope the whole clan could go to jail. They have tried to ruin this country. Their elitism is evident in this incident.

What a nice broad brush you sling around. I despise what the Kennedys have done to America, but I'm not going to use the Constitution as toilet paper like you would to condemn Douglas Kennedy without the benefit of due process.

I erred in referring to you as 'Nurse Ratchett', I should have said 'Judge Dredd'.
120 posted on 02/26/2012 1:38:08 PM PST by mkjessup (Romney is to conservatism what e.coli is to an all-you-can-eat salad bar. NO ROMNEY!!!)
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If Kennedy really ran down the stairs with a newborn baby as the police report states, then there’s a real problem here. That’s an extremely dangerous thing to do. But if this whole thing is a setup, then there must be punishment for unjustly accusing Kennedy.

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According to a Mount Kisco, N.Y. police report obtained by NBC New York, Douglas Kennedy, 44, took his baby from the newborn unit of Northern Westchester Hospital on Jan. 7, against the instructions of hospital staff who told him the infant needed to stay there. The arrest was on misdemeanor charges.

Kennedy and his wife, Molly, disputed the accusations in a statement to NBC New York, saying “these allegations are absurd.”

The nurse in charge of the unit, Anna Margaret Lane, said in a deposition that Kennedy wanted to take the child “to get fresh air” that evening. As he tried to leave, he was accompanied by a doctor from the hospital’s emergency room, identified in court papers as “Dr. Haydock,” later determined to be Dr. Timothy Haydock, a longtime family friend.

While the nursing staff sought to get Kennedy to return the baby to his bassinet, Haydock reportedly encouraged Kennedy to walk with the baby by telling nurses that he was with him, according to Lane’s deposition.

Kennedy ignored the pleas of the nursing staff and carried the newborn — identified in court papers as “B.K.” — to the elevator, police said. As the nursing staff tried to calm him and dissuade him from leaving the hospital, Kennedy turned and walked toward a stairwell leading to the outside of the hospital.

Lane blocked the doorway, “placing both hands on the doorknob” to prevent Kennedy from leaving, police said. Kennedy grabbed the nurse by her left wrist and twisted it to that he could pass into the stairwell, police said.

The baby’s head “began to move from side to side, and in an attempt to stabilize the baby’s head, nurse Cari Maleman Luciano reached toward the infant’s head,” police said.

“Instinctively as a nurse, I raised both my arms toward the neck of the baby to steady the violent shaking of the baby’s head and neck,” Luciano told investigators in a deposition.

While holding the child in his right arm, Kennedy kicked Luciano in the pelvis with his right foot, knocking her backward onto the floor, police said.

As he did this, Kennedy fell onto the floor with the baby in his arms. Kennedy then got up and ran “down the stairs with the infant until he was stopped by security and escorted back to the infant’s room,” the police report said.

The police report did not say whether the infant was harmed in the altercation.

The statement to NBC New York from Kennedy and his wife said there was no crime committed.

“The nurse had no right to attempt to grab our child out of his father’s arms and I, Douglas, was shocked and appalled when she did so,” the statement said.

Haydock said in a statement to NBC New York that Kennedy, whom he has known for more than 40 years, was not putting his healthy baby at risk by seeking to take him for a walk outside.

“I witnessed the incident and I can state unequivocally that the nurses were the only aggressors,” he said. “To charge Mr. Kennedy with a crime is simply incomprehensible to me.”

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123 posted on 02/26/2012 1:50:07 PM PST by smoothsailing
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