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Iota Family Fighting For New Legislation After Misdiagnosis Forces Call To Child Services

Posted: Apr 11, 2013 11:18 PM by Steven Albritton

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“For those five and a half months we weren’t able to go home because the only way to be around our children and acquire that care plan was to stay in someone else’s home so we could be with our children,” Amanda Spaetgens said.

The second doctor’s examination found evidence Callie died after reacting to a medication. The reaction caused her to have renal hemorrhaging, which is also a sign of shaken baby syndrome. Those symptoms are why the first doctor ruled abuse.

“I felt it was a slight injustice because we had never hurt our children. We’d been falsely accused and were kind of guilty until proven innocent,” Spaetgens said.

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