Re: girl vax injured & given riperdal by Doc- mother jailed refusing to give meds

March 30, 2011

Now why would anyone refuse this killer drug?!

http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/D_rug_N_ews_50/011812532009_How_Did_Danger

ous_Risperdal_Become_a_Best_Selling_Drug.shtml

http://detnews.com/article/20110328/METRO01/103280326/Detroit-mother-jailed-

after-standoff#ixzz1I1S8uV00

Detroit mother jailed after standoff

Detroit — A 56-year-old woman faces multiple felony charges and is being

held on $500,000 bond after a 10-hour standoff with police, claiming she was

protecting her 13-year-old daughter from unnecessary medication.

anne Godboldo, 56, was arraigned Sunday before 36th District Magistrate

Sidney Barthwell Jr. on charges of firing a weapon in a dwelling, felonious

assault, resisting and obstructing an officer, and use of a firearm in the

commission of a felony. Barthwell set an April 8 preliminary examination.

" What has happened here is a travesty, " said Wanda A. , Godboldo's

attorney. " This family has never been under the jurisdiction of the court.

This shouldn't have happened. "

Godboldo is accused of barricading herself inside her west side home with

her 13-year-old daughter and a gun after being confronted Thursday afternoon

by Child Protective Services workers who had a warrant to remove the girl

because the mother had withheld her medication. Detroit Police said Godboldo

fired a shot and refused to leave the home until negotiators, including a

Wayne County judge, helped talk her into surrendering.

" We talked that day mother-to-mother. I asked her to come out on her porch

and I promised I would come here today to walk out with her, " Wayne Circuit

Judge Deborah said Sunday after the hearing. " I'm shocked by the

amount of the bond. I never dreamed it would be set so high and she wouldn't

be free to care for her daughter. "

Godboldo's family and supporters, who gathered outside the court Sunday,

said the woman has every right to make medical decisions for her daughter

and that child welfare workers overstepped their authority. The unusual

circumstances of the standoff attracted a large crowd of volunteers offering

to help negotiate with Godboldo, including ministers and community

activists.

said she eventually talked Godboldo out with a promise her daughter

would be turned over to a relative, but family members say the girl was

taken into protective custody anyway. said a hearing on removal of the

child will be April 6 before Wayne County Juvenile Referee Graves.

Penny Godboldo, a dance professor at grove College, said she and her

sister, anne, trained as dancers in New York before opening a studio in

Detroit. anne Godboldo became a stay-at-home mother after the troubled

birth of her daughter, who was born with a defective foot that required

amputation of her leg below the knee.

anne Godboldo home-schooled the girl. She said her strength and

confidence grew, and despite her handicap, she swam, sang, danced and played

the piano.

Penny Godboldo said as her niece approached middle school age, she wanted to

attend school but needed to catch up on required immunizations.

" We believe she had an adverse reaction to her immunizations, " Penny

Godboldo said.

" She began acting out of character, being irritated, having facial grimaces

that have been associated with immunizations. "

said anne Godboldo sought help for her daughter from The

Children's Center, an organization that helps families with at-risk

children, where a medical and mental health treatment plan was developed.

Godboldo told relatives the medications ordered by the doctor worsened

symptoms, including behavioral problems.

" It is an undiagnosed condition, but the doctor had given her psychotropic

drugs that caused a bad reaction, made things worse, " said the girl's

father, Mubuarak Hakim. " anne's decision to wean her from that was

making a difference, making her better, helping her to be a happy kid

again. "

A rally for Godboldo is planned for 9 a.m. Saturday at Hartford Memorial

Baptist Church, 18700 Couzens Freeway.

From The Detroit News:

http://detnews.com/article/20110328/METRO01/103280326/Detroit-mother-jailed-

after-standoff#ixzz1I1XRMftL

and from MLIVE:

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/03/was_a_detroit_mother_rig

ht_to.html#cmpid=v2mode_be_smoref_face

Was a Detroit mother right to resist efforts by Child Protective Services,

police to take her child?

Published: Monday, March 28, 2011, 10:55 AM By Darrell Dawsey

anne Godboldo was looking only for help.

Last year, the Detroit mother went to the Children's Center, a group that

works with troubled children, to seek advice and a treatment plan for her

13-year-old daughter. The girl, who'd never had behavioral problems before,

was suddenly irritable and not her usual self following a series of

immunization shots.

As part of the center's treatment plan, a doctor prescribed the child an

anti-psychotic medication. But the child's symptoms only worsened. As a

result, Godboldo sought another physician, who quickly recommended taking

the child off the psychotropic drug.

The mother agreed and, according to her attorney, who spoke exclusively with

MLive Detroit earlier today, Godboldo began following that doctor's orders.

Unfortunately for Godboldo, the state didn't agree. Child Protective

Services wanted Godboldo's child medicated according the center's plan, and

CPS workers essentially told the 56-year-old mother — who was never under

any court order to follow the plan — to agree to their program or surrender

her child.

She refused both. And so, on Thursday, CPS workers showed up at Godboldo's

house with the police, who said they had a warrant to take the child. But

according to Godboldo's lawyer, Wanda A. , officers never produced a

warrant even after Godboldo repeatedly asked to see one.

A standoff ensued. A gunshot was fired from inside the house — though,

according to , not at officers. Finally, after long hours of tense

negotiations, Godboldo — a mother, a teacher, a dancer and a respected

figure in the city's arts circles — surrendered, was jailed and, on Sunday,

was arraigned on multiple felony charges.

March 28, Detroit News: Godboldo is accused of barricading herself inside

her west side home with her 13-year-old daughter and a gun after being

confronted Thursday afternoon by Child Protective Services workers who had a

warrant to remove the girl because the mother had withheld her medication.

Detroit Police said Godboldo fired a shot and refused to leave the home

until negotiators, including a Wayne County judge, helped talk her into

surrendering.

" We talked that day mother-to-mother. I asked her to come out on her porch

and I promised I would come here today to walk out with her, " Wayne Circuit

Judge Deborah said Sunday after the hearing. " I'm shocked by the

amount of the bond. I never dreamed it would be set so high and she wouldn't

be free to care for her daughter. "

Meanwhile, according to , the daughter, who has a physical disability,

remains in the custody of the state even though several relatives and family

friends have repeatedly volunteered to care for her in her mother's absence:

" They had a hearing that they didn't notify anyone of, and a woman from CPS

said that no family had come forward to take care of the girl. That's just

not true. Relatives were all at the house when this incident happened,

saying they would take care of her. It's like, the state just wants to

medicate this child. "

But for now, at least, the drugs are off the table. A Wayne County Circuit

Court judge ordered the medication discontinued until further review.

How isn't this entire incident a travesty?

How does a woman who voluntarily goes looking for help wind up behind bars

because she's trying to do what she thinks is right by her child? How can

the state make a mom who, by all accounts, has done a wonderful job of

parenting give her child medicine that she and a doctor both think only

worsens a problem? And how is it that we can respect a judge ordering the

child off the medication but not a mother acting on her physician's advice?

compares Godboldo to comic McCarthy, who has railed publicly

against vaccines as a potential cause of autism in children. Granted, the

science weighs heavily against that theory, but as says, " Nobody is

kicking in McCarthy's door. She has the right to do what she thinks is

in the best interest of her child. Why can't this woman? "

Hell, this isn't about vaccines even: Godboldo had gone along with the

shots. She wasn't some religious nut denying her child a life-saving medical

treatment. This was a mother who, along with her doctor, didn't believe her

child benefited from psychotropic drugs.

As Judge ' remarks suggest, the incident has sparked shock and outrage

among many in Detroit who believe that Child Protective Services overreacted

(and that state agencies are often far too quick to recommend medication for

kids, especially black children). A rally of support for Godboldo is being

held at Detroit's Hartford Memorial Church on April 2.

I doubt that anybody's trying to justify standoffs with cops or warning

shots or any of the other sensational elements of this incident. But early

evidence strongly suggests that the CPS workers overstepped their bounds in

a major way.

If so, then how could Godboldo not resist? Because regardless of whether

it's to mental illness, physical disabilities or state agencies, good

parents do not simply surrender their children.

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March 30, 2011