The paramedic and magistrate, however, ruled that that wasn't adequate, and dispatched the officers to take the boy, John, to a hospital, where a doctor evaluated him and released him immediately.
However, the sheriff declined to provide a single instance of the father's illegal behavior. "I can't tell you specifically," he said.
"He was refusing to provide medical care," the sheriff said.
However, the sheriff said if his own children were involved in an at-home accident, he would want to be the one to make decisions on their healthcare, as did Shiflett.
"I guess if that was one of my children, I would make that decision," the sheriff said.
But he said Shiflett was "rude and confrontational" when the paramedics arrived and entered his home without his permission.
” The paramedic and magistrate, however, ruled that that wasn’t adequate, and dispatched the officers to take the boy, John, to a hospital, where a doctor evaluated him and released him immediately.”
Yeah I saw that. Also, the paramedics had seen the child and knew he was not seriously hurt. There is more to the story and I would be surprised to learn it was family. They seem entirely reasonable in this story.
Parts of Colorado are becoming the new Berkley so its my guess the liberals involved couldn’t stomach someone taking personal responsibility.
From the article which you posted at #28:
“According to friends of the family, Tom Shiflett, who has 10 children including six still at home, and served with paramedics in Vietnam, was monitoring his son’s condition himself..........The paramedic and magistrate, however, ruled that that wasn’t adequate, and dispatched the officers to take the boy, John, to a hospital, where a doctor evaluated him and released him immediately. “
I’m disgusted with the fact my parents committed that negligence many times when me or my brother or sister got banged up when we were kids. It’s a miracle we survived.
And now, I must confess that transgression was passed on to me and I’ve done the same with my kids. I can’t take the guilt anymore. Even though they are grown I fear I’ve done something wrong. I’m calling to turn myself in.
Here’s a couple of good ones I just remembered, both happened in the past couple of months, separate incidents different states. Two kids whose families I am friends with fell and banged her heads. Both kids were taken to the hospital and and were checked out and released by the staff.
Both kids lost appetite, slept a lot and went back to the hospital two days later and were found to have suffered mild concussions.