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The parents of a 5-month-old were shocked when police showed up to take away their infant boy after they told a doctor they wanted a second opinion.
Caught on camera, the footage shows police entering the California home of Anna and Alex Nikolayev and asking Anna to hand over the baby.
?I?m going to grab your baby,? one of the several officers at the scene told Nikolayev, ?And don?t resist and don?t fight me.?
?He grabbed my arm,? the new mother told KXTV, ?so I couldn't take Sammy. And they took Sammy, and they just walked away."
The saga began about two weeks ago when Sammy, who suffers from a heart murmur, began showing flu-like symptoms.
The Nikolayevs took him to Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California, the hospital where Sammy had been receiving regular treatment for his heart condition.
According to Anna, the couple became alarmed after a nurse came in to give the baby antibiotics.
?I asked her, ?For what is that?? And she's like, ?I don't know.?'
How, Anna wondered, was the woman working as a nurse but unaware of the purpose of a medication? Anna said a doctor would later tell her Sammy did not need antibiotics.
While still at Sutter, Sammy was admitted to the pediatric ICU for observation. Within a few days, doctors began discussing the possibility of heart surgery for the baby.
Motivated by fear, Anna took Sammy from the hospital without a proper discharge and admitted him to another hospital, Kaiser Permanente.
Taken: Though they got OK'd from a different hospital to take Sammy home, police let themselves in the next day and took Sammy into protective services
?I don't want to have my baby have surgery in the hospital where I don't feel safe,? Anna explained.
Police then showed up at the second hospital.
?They told us that Sutter was telling them so much bad stuff that they thought that this baby is dying on our arms,? Anna said.
At Kaiser Permanente, the doctor indicated on the infant's records that he was clinically safe to go home with the Nikolayevs and that there was no concern for the Sammy?s safety in their care. They went home.
On April 24, the police arrived at their house. Alex said he greeted them and was pushed to the ground when he asked if he was being arrested. They then took Sammy away.
According to Anna, a child protective services worker told her Sammy was taken away for ?severe neglect? but did not elaborate on the neglect.
KXTV reached out to Sutter Memorial and were told to contact child protective services. Reporters were told by CPS that they couldn't comment on individual cases.
CPS spokesperson Laura McCasland told the ABC affiliate, 'We conduct a risk assessment of the child's safety and rely heavily on the direction of health care providers.'
The Nikolayevs were allowed an hour of visitation with Sammy on Thursday.
An outraged Alex told KXTV. ?It seems like parents have no right whatsoever.?
?We did everything,? a tearful Anna agreed. ?We went from one hospital to another. We just wanted to be safe, that he is in good hands.?
A court date hearing was set for April 29.
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The parents of a 5-month-old were shocked when police showed up to take away their infant boy after they told a doctor they wanted a second opinion.
Caught on camera, the footage shows police entering the California home of Anna and Alex Nikolayev and asking Anna to hand over the baby.
?I?m going to grab your baby,? one of the several officers at the scene told Nikolayev, ?And don?t resist and don?t fight me.?
?He grabbed my arm,? the new mother told KXTV, ?so I couldn't take Sammy. And they took Sammy, and they just walked away."
The saga began about two weeks ago when Sammy, who suffers from a heart murmur, began showing flu-like symptoms.
The Nikolayevs took him to Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento, California, the hospital where Sammy had been receiving regular treatment for his heart condition.
According to Anna, the couple became alarmed after a nurse came in to give the baby antibiotics.
?I asked her, ?For what is that?? And she's like, ?I don't know.?'
How, Anna wondered, was the woman working as a nurse but unaware of the purpose of a medication? Anna said a doctor would later tell her Sammy did not need antibiotics.
While still at Sutter, Sammy was admitted to the pediatric ICU for observation. Within a few days, doctors began discussing the possibility of heart surgery for the baby.
Motivated by fear, Anna took Sammy from the hospital without a proper discharge and admitted him to another hospital, Kaiser Permanente.
Taken: Though they got OK'd from a different hospital to take Sammy home, police let themselves in the next day and took Sammy into protective services
?I don't want to have my baby have surgery in the hospital where I don't feel safe,? Anna explained.
Police then showed up at the second hospital.
?They told us that Sutter was telling them so much bad stuff that they thought that this baby is dying on our arms,? Anna said.
At Kaiser Permanente, the doctor indicated on the infant's records that he was clinically safe to go home with the Nikolayevs and that there was no concern for the Sammy?s safety in their care. They went home.
On April 24, the police arrived at their house. Alex said he greeted them and was pushed to the ground when he asked if he was being arrested. They then took Sammy away.
According to Anna, a child protective services worker told her Sammy was taken away for ?severe neglect? but did not elaborate on the neglect.
KXTV reached out to Sutter Memorial and were told to contact child protective services. Reporters were told by CPS that they couldn't comment on individual cases.
CPS spokesperson Laura McCasland told the ABC affiliate, 'We conduct a risk assessment of the child's safety and rely heavily on the direction of health care providers.'
The Nikolayevs were allowed an hour of visitation with Sammy on Thursday.
An outraged Alex told KXTV. ?It seems like parents have no right whatsoever.?
?We did everything,? a tearful Anna agreed. ?We went from one hospital to another. We just wanted to be safe, that he is in good hands.?
A court date hearing was set for April 29.
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