[Boogieman]

“So the DCS social worker and the hospital RN are in on the plot? Good one.”

You said that, not me.

“Because people react instantly to shocking and horrifying events right in front of their faces — by grabbing their cell phones -— right?”

Nowadays, yes, they usually do.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't know that there's disposative proof one way or the other, but I can't imagine the motivations for non-family-members (like the family counselor and the nurse) lying to the press about something they claim they saw with their own eyes. It is not a professional enhancement, it does not flow from their training or education, it will expose them to ridicule, and they cannot profit from it.

As for cell phones being whipped out automatically: it is just as likely that they were too shocked to move. I would have been.

There's not enough evidence for me to make a judgment. To dismiss eyewitness testimony of two professionals out of hand, however, hints of bias.