Fort Worth, TX – ORebeca and Adrien Henderson are fighting to bring their two children, Ivy and Nico, home after Child Protective Services (CPS) removed them based on a rushed and faulty medical diagnosis. The Family Freedom Project (FFP) is standing with the Hendersons to provide resources, legal support, and public awareness in their battle to reunite their family.
When Ivy was 6 weeks old, her father noticed a red mark on her cheek that appeared to be some kind of rash. The Hendersons chose caution and went to the Hospital. Despite repeated pleas for a dermatologist to inspect the rash, no doctor ever examined her. Instead, a nurse took a photo of Ivy and returned later to proclaim that the red mark was a burn. They accused the parents of abuse.
By this time, no doctor had inspected Ivy. The hospital ordered MRI scans on Ivy and found an asymptomatic (ie, painless and normally undetectable) microfracture in her femur. Having already accused the family of abuse, the hospital now claimed this, too, was abuse. Ivy had multiple documented risk factors for poor bone health and had been delivered six weeks earlier by emergency C-section, both of which are associated in the medical literature with asymptomatic microfractures in infants…