RFK’s Son Charged With Harassment After Allegedly Kicking Nurse in the Groin in Hospital Fight
- Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:09am by
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Douglas Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, is facing charges after allegedly fighting with nurses at a New York hospital while trying to take his newborn son outside. (Image source: WNBC-TV)
A son of Robert F. Kennedy is facing misdemeanor charges after allegedly fighting with nurses who tried to stop him from taking his 2-day-old baby boy from the maternity ward at a suburban New York hospital.
A police report obtained by New York NBC affiliate WNBC-TV said Douglas Kennedy, 44, took his infant from the newborn unit of Northern Westchester Hospital Jan. 7 against the orders of nurses who said the baby needed to stay there.
Surveillance footage shows Kennedy walking through the hospital with his son. (Image source: WNBC-TV)
A nurse said Kennedy, a Fox News reporter, argued that he wanted to take the baby out “to get fresh air.” When they tried to stop him, Kennedy — holding the baby — allegedly twisted one nurse’s wrist and kicked another in the pelvis, knocking her backward.
As he did so, Kennedy fell to the floor himself before getting up and running “down the stairs with the infant until he was stopped by security and escorted back to the infant’s room,” the police report said.
According to WNBC, the report did not say whether the infant was harmed during the incident.
Surveillance footage, left, shows Kennedy confronting a hospital worker and, right, a staffer falling to the floor. (Image source: WNBC-TV)
Kennedy and his wife called the allegations “absurd” and said in a statement to WNBC: “The nurse had no right to attempt to grab our child out of his father’s arms and I, Douglas, was shocked and appalled when she did so.”
He was arraigned on child endangerment and harassment charges Thursday. According to the New York Daily News, he surrendered to police after charges were filed and was later released on his own recognizance.
Douglas Kennedy is the 10th child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy.
Watch surveillance footage of the incident below, via WNBC:
This post has been updated since it was first published.
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Comments (497)
BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:44amWow. I never thought I’d see this here.
The baby was his. Why couldn’t he take the baby outside? You know, for all the talk about liberty and such on this site, I’m starting to question whether most people here even know what liberty means.
“Those willing to sacrifice liberty for security, deserve neither and WILL lose both.”
- The Man! The Legend!, Mr. Thomas Jefferson!!!! Ladies and Gents!
Don’t get me wrong, I hate spoiled impudence just like the next, but seriously, can some one give a valid excuse that doesn’t hinge upon “for his OR the babies’ safety”?
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:57amIn the article no explanation was given as to why the baby needed to stay on the floor,it‘s just the Kennedy’s suck and normal people just don’t like them.
Report Post »Raider1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:59amI was about to say the same thing….There are some people on here that need some counter indoctrination….AND….if a woman will get in your face like a man…well, equal treatment is what they want equal treatment is what they will get.
Report Post »2barbraw
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:05amLIBERTY IS GONE!!!
The baby was two days old and apparently healthy, WHY shouldn’t the FATHER take his son outside.
The reason being is simple;
MONEY, MONEY,MONEY!!!
The MEDICAL INSURANCE COMPANIES (due to GOV regulations) require a “point” system (OF WHICH I DO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND) which is basically a money scoring system the hospital MUST apply by in order to qualify for the “PROPER BIRTH” allocation of money.
Example: ( not certified example) just for discussion purposes.
Room Stay 3 points
Recieved all Medications 4 points
Baby Nursery Stay 3 points
Baby Seat In Car 2 points
Baby Diaper Bag Issued 2 points
etc etcc etc
Total number of points earned during stay 40 points BAM FULL PAYMENT OF $27,000.00 due to hospital. Any deviation from the 40 points decreases the money due the hospital. So, by Mr RFK taking his baby son outside earlier than required the hospital was at risk of receiving FULL PAYMENT!!!
It’s not about SECURITY!!
Report Post »It’s about MONEY MONEY MONEY!!!
The above point system is only used as an example of HOW IT WORKS.. I paraphrased what family members (IN THE MEDICAL PROFRESSION) have expressed to me…
crichton
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:05amAfter all the baby snatches over the past 20 years, security is pretty tight around the maternity ward. When we had our son we were warned not to go far with him before being officially released.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:08amThe hospital staff are getting ahead of themselves… obamacare just might be repealed then these staff people will not officially be a part of the gov’t.
Report Post »Equality…shot to the crotch- good!
beverlee
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:09amSo…you assume the nurse doesn’t know her job? Perhaps there was a health issue, perhaps the dad had no id with him and she didn’t know who he was, perhaps there was a scheduled test or feeding, perhaps he was under the influence and she didn’t feel it was safe to release the baby. Whatever it was, if you put yourself in the care of a third party you have to go by their rules…otherwise have the baby at home. It is not a freedom issue, it is an entitlement issue.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:13amDoes liability light up a few brain cells!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:13amYou can always tell who a DEMOCRAT is. DEMOCRAT”S will stand with a lawbreaking Kennedy, or a law breaking Clinton, or a law breaking Obama.When my two children were born if I pulled this, I would have been in jail. Where this POS should be.
Lawbreaking is a major chapter in the DEMOCRAT Handbook.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:14amOT Raider1, I’m glad to see there are some that think that too. I was questioning whether I was the only one. Ain’t it funny about that ship that just run a ground recently? Everyone complaining about the Titanic Riddle. That sure got me going.
Report Post »heckufaguy
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:15amPart of the paperwork he signed walking in was to abide by the rules and regulations of the hospitals. With infant thefts making headlines everywhere, hospitals are often using an ‘infant protection system’. Means, the infant is banded, and not allowed off the floor unless for medical or discharge reasons. The reason is simple. Not everyone knows who this Kennedy is (sorry Kennedy’s, tis true) so to a nurse or staff worker, it looks like someone taking a baby off the floor, which is simply NOT ALLOWED unless approved ahead of time.
Report Post »Had this been a look alike, and this child stolen, all hell would break loose on why they didn’t stop someone with a baby. You can’t have it both ways, he was wrong, the nurses deserve an award, and he deserves to be punished.
IMAWAKENOW
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:18amI work in a hospital and there are very clear rules about taking newborns off the unit by anyone. There have been MANY times family members abduct babies. As a mater of fact, all inpatients are strongly discouraged from leaving their unit. The hospital is responsible and liable if you are injured while admitted, even if it has nothing to do with our actions.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:23amHah, so 13th IMAM thinks I’m a demoncrap, I’m not standing up for anyone Kennedy or not, I am questioning with boldness sir. I am questioning the frame this whole “security” facade is predicated on. I am tired of hearing the phrase “for my protection”. I can protect my d@mn self and don‘t need some liberal nutjob thinking she knows what’s best for me.
Barbraw, Thanks for the info, I’ll look into that. I didn’t know that is what happened… follow the money uh… always comes to that….
Beverlee, No I assume that there is a a corrupt system in place. Everything else just falls where it may.
Report Post »txblaze
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:30amIf they had chosen to have the baby at home then he could take it outside for all the fresh air they wanted. They chose to have it at a hospital and so are expected to follow that hospital’s rules. Anyone who has had a baby in a hospital knows you don’t take the baby off the floor. The hospital is responsible if anything happens to the baby. It’s a security issue and no one has a problem with it – except the Kennedy’s.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:34amI can’t believe what I am reading. Besides Barbraw, no one has anything besides “for the safety of…” AND are fighting to say that is all that is needed.
My god, help us.
BTW, I’m lumping the “IT’S IN THE RULES!!!!! MAN!!!“ people in with the ”for your safety” people because the rules were written after justification for the system was established. I.E. “for your safety” begot “we need a solution”, who begot “we should write rules that would imply safety”, who begot the “IT’S IN THE RULES!” people. I am fully aware that 90% won’t get the above joke. I am OK with it.
Report Post »bleuze
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:35amI ill give you two reasons. Both reasons apply to everyone in a hopsital. They are:
Report Post »1. what if the baby died? Who is responsible?
2. what if the baby was being kidnapped? Parents have benn known to do that, you know!
notreally
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:39amAre you serious? If something had happened to the kid outside the maternity ward you’d be the first to shout: “Sue the hospital for allowing the father to take the child!”
Elitest SOB’s always claim rights no one else has, especially if they’re socialists — I mean demcrats.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:41amSo , if a Kennedy (DEMOCRAT) wants off the plane at 30,000 Ft he or she should be allowed to open the hatch?? Aligning with the OWS crowd, where every rule was meant to be broken, is just an offshoot of DEMOCRAT rules.
Report Post »And was there no Air inside the hospital?
janedough1
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:42amI clicked on this expecting to be angry with the father. I‘m no fan of the Kennedy’s. But a baby doesn’t belong to the hospital or the nurses, and a father doesn’t need permission to take a child for a walk.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:44amTXBLAZE, You’re right. They did choose to have the baby at a hospital. The hospital has rules. I understand that. I also understand that hospitals all have different systems of keeping tabs on a baby. Most hospitals have an in-suite where the baby, mummy and daddy all get to stay in the same room. I am assuming the baby wasn’t in NICU, since he was allowed to hold it outside the use of a clean room and clean suit. Obviously, a check was in place already because he had the baby in his arms.
Now, I’m just playing devils advocate here. But what if, and this is just a big what if, thinking outside the box here, the nurse just saw a man holding a baby and said to herself, “That baby might not be his.” She should verify, and if he wanted to take the baby out, then she could have escorted him outside so there was no question along the way.
From the video, it appeared as if she just screamed, “Help! Help! Kidnapping!!” and tried to hold him up. Look at his facial expressions, it looks like he can‘t believe that he’s not allowed to take his new baby outside for the first time. At least that’s what it looks like to me.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:50amDon’t you need to be discharged to leave the hospital. You know like sign the correct papers to be released. I think the kennedy’s are over populating.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:51amBlueze, 1. That used to be handled with a simple “This is hospital is not liable for…” If the child is with a parent I can hardly see how that would be blamed on a hospital under a RATIONAL jury.
2. that’s a “for the safety of…” issue which I’ve already addressed is the false frame.
Notreally, you don’t even know me, how dare you try and tell me what I would do. And actually I am a strong fathers rights advocate. Put that in your pipe.
13th IMAM, Are you kidding me? The Kennedy‘s don’t fly on the same planes as us common folk! Silly!
Report Post »Roadking991
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:56amGive me a break, it’s not a matter of Liberity. How about the fact that the hospital is libel for the kid until the baby is released. What if the baby caught a germ while outside? I’m sure Kennedy would blame someone other than hisself. And did you ever stop to consider security, babies are being took from parents for the black market all the time. Sounds like the hospital was protecting the child and the father was putting the child in harms way.
Report Post »Tony
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:57ami wonder if the two nurses were Obama zombies, followers of Media Matters, and recognized the father as enemy number one, a Fox News reporter…
Report Post »patriot4evah
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:03amThe baby is never removed from the hospital until the discharge papers are filled out and both the mother and infant are discharged. He did all that with a newborn in his hand. His parental rights should be taken away.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:04amRoadking, I guess you didn’t see when I wrote, “can someone give an excuse other than ”for the safety of”?
Either way, this problem could have been solved with the nurse verifying that he indeed was supposed to have the baby and then escorting him outside. Instead she opted for bad customer service and escalated the situation. As far as the father putting the child in harms way…. yeah, that’s rich.
Report Post »texchris
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:07amAre you really such an idiot to think Kennedys liberties were infringed?There are health reasons involved with infants you tool.
Report Post »LibsSuk
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:08amAren’t you missing some “news” story breaking on the Daily Kos?
Aren’t you amazed at the number of Kennedy family members that do bad things? As a liberal atheist I am sure actions are more important than grace – so you must be very embarassed by another Cheddar-nose Kennedy acting badly.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:17amAnd here we go with the name calling. Hey guys, how bout we leave the dirty name calling to the ********, Yeah?
I’m not saying his liberties were infringed upon, I am pointing out the system, the frame, that exists in everything around us that is only in existence because someone, at some point, (most likely a progressive) thought it was better, “for the safety of ….” that the system be imposed.
We can’t change the world for the better and protect our actual freedoms guys until we acknowledge that the systems are everywhere that keep us in bondage.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:20amUncle Ted K. stumbled out of a intern party, and drove off a bridge to nowhere ,, killing Mary Jo.. RK Jr, flew a small private plane into Nantucket Sound. killing him and Caroline. The Kennedy’s have a history of doing illegal and stupid things. The old man was a bootlegger,, JFK was a role model for BJ Clinton, Skakel took a divot from a young girls head, killing her, and it only took 25 years to catch him.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:22amRelax BSimpson, and get some rest ..
Report Post »little big man
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:30amcould it be the baby had a health issue?????? or was the kennedy going to get in his car and drive to look for a bridge????????????????
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:30amPolarized, lol my hour is almost up. I told myself I would give it an hour. I was hoping to see some deeper thought besides, “he broke the rules”.
I may give up yet, who knows. The only thing these exchanges has done is solidified in my mind that if someone wants to change something all they have to do is create a law or a rule, and there will always be lemmings to follow them without question.
Even in America. The country that slapped the crown. It’s amazing to me, how not many think that that affect change they must be the effect that does it, and yes that means “breaking” sacrosanct rules from time to time.
Report Post »Duddio
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:36amThis is the power that hospitals have, and the law will back them up. When my wife and I tried to go home with our second child the day after she was born, the nurses argued with me that the baby needed its second checkup with the pediatrician before she could be “released” to us. She had been seen once, was declared healthy, but their policy was for two visits.
After 20 minutes of argument, I finally told them I was leaving WITH my child and wife, as both were healthy and if they tried to prevent me, I’d sue them for kidnapping. The head nurse made me sign some forms relieving them of liability and finally let me go. Then they escort you out and don’t want to let you go until they see the baby strapped into a car seat. (which we had already prepared.)
(bgin sarcasm) These people know much better than you do, you see, they are smarter, and they have a medical license, and who the hell are you? The baby’s parent? psshh! You know nothing! (end sarcasm)
Medical practitioners like this nurse do not take into account the God-given instinct of a parent to be violently protective of their children, and if ANYONE other than my wife tried to grab my baby out of my arms, I would have reacted the same. Who the hell is the nurse to tell the parent they can’t take a walk with their child? Was there a blizzard outside? Was he drunk?
I’m telling you, this goes on every day in AmeriKa, and Obamacare will give it the full weight of the Federal Government. Just wait
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:39amThey are called rules and regulations.They are put in place for the safety of the patient not the parents. Evidently the Kennedy’s think they are above the law and have no regard for the rules and regulations that are in place.
Report Post »I don‘t see a reason that he couldn’t take his baby home also. But the rules are there to protect the baby rights not his. If he didn’t want to obey the rules of the hospital then he and his wife should have gotten a midwife to deliver the baby at home.
Ruler4You
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:40amYou said it was ‘his’ baby.
I beg to differ. Respectfully.
The maternity ward is a machine. Its purpose “IS” to deliver babies into the government tax revenue generation machine. A certain process has been developed to that end. All power and authority (and responsibility) for that child remain with the hospital while it’s there for this purpose.
The best way for that to happen “IS” for the infant to remain in a protected surrounding where ‘staff’ can monitor that goal.
Actually, when you think about it, its really not much of a leap from there to “The Matrix”, Just a different power plant. Much more manual today. But the same idea.
Report Post »BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:43amThis is my last comment, my hour is up.
I can deal with the childish name calling. I can deal with people who seemingly don’t care what happens. What I have a hard time dealing with are people saying they care, and then not thinking deeply into the matter.
I don’t care what happens to Kennedy. I really don’t. I have enough problems of my own. Karma will get them eventually. There’s too much positive in my life to soil it with hating an entire family. In my mind the is about something larger. The institutions that have evolved all over that promote the progressive agenda. (credit to Glenn for naming it finally). I find it a difficult pill to swallow that this is framed in several bad ways. 1) they pull the sex card (he victimized a woman), 2) he was in the wrong when accommodations are made everyday (I was allowed to take my daughter outside) 3) its in the rules; can’t question them.
If we would have proceeding with the American Revolution according to the rules we’d all still be saying, ‘Hail to the Queen!” right now. At some point we must question which rules we are going to break in the name of liberty and freedom. While the hospital is hardly the starting point, eventually we will have to question the same institution, that governs that hospital, that governs us.
I hope I have made some people think. The rest… may God help them. Good day.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:04amSeems to be a genetic defect for the Kennedy’s to be a little off the line of reason and stability, eh?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:08amAll I know, is there must of been, some gnashing of teeth, over laying charges on this one!
Report Post »DGeezy11
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:09amThe baby can‘t be taken outside while under the nurses care because if something happened to the baby it’s on the nurses head. It is a law. Educate yourselves. I cannot believe that you all aren’t appalled that he attacked two women. The guy is a dirt bag. No baby needs to be taken out side in freezing weather, the dad needed fresh air, not the baby.
Report Post »jeffile
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:11amRecently, there was an incident where the father removed his infant from the hospital and didn’t return. This is just another case of a Kennedy expecting royal treatment.
Report Post »PuntoVistaSur
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:17amTypical Kennedy and 1%’er reaction – “we are above the rules”. “The rules are for the ‘little people’”.
Report Post »Every maternity ward does NOT allow a newborn off the floor. The mother‘s wrist band must match the baby’s before they can even finally leave – and, it is checked. Too many babies are stolen otherwise.
So…we are left with the Kennedy‘s thinking there stuff doesn’t stink and you MUST let us do what we want.
ChiefGeorge
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:18amAs long as he didn‘t touch anyone else in anger then I’m supporting his assertions that all he wanted to do was take his own son outside and two busy body nanny state nazi women got in his way. The untold misery their mentality has placed on this society may never be fully told or understood until maybe our great grandchildren can look back at what morons we became as a result of feminization of Americans became the norm.
Report Post »Your Name Here
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:20amMaybe because they were trying to make sure simeone didn’t just walk out with a baby?
Report Post »Or maybe he hadn’t paid for it yet.
mllyjul
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:20amMy last child was born in 2001 and I had to wait all day for the hospital to release MY baby to me after I was discharged. as far as the hospital was concerned they owned my child until they released her. . This incident sounds like the Kennedy’s m.o. All the rules apply to everyone else not them.
Report Post »RickWS
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:23amThe baby is under hospital care and therefore their responsibility. I bet Kennedy wouldn’t hesitate to sue if something were to happen to the child!
Ideologues on the right write just as stupid rhetoric as progressives.
Report Post »FROTHYDISCHARGE
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:25amBSIMPSON he can chose to have his baby at home and not have to deal with it. They have protocols so somebody doesn’t walk off with a baby. Believe it or not genius but some fathers have even tried to steal their own kids. You libertarian numb nuts need to learn when to pick your battles. What normal person when a nurse tells you the baby can‘t leave the floor doesn’t say “ok sorry” or does it make more sense to take your 3 day old out in winter and kick a nurse?
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:34amPeople used to steal babies from maternity wards on a regular basis. That’s why steps are taken to guard against that. If hospital staff see somebody just walking out of the hospital carrying a newborn like a loaf of bread they’re going to stop you.
Don’t be stupid.
Report Post »OMC-BLUTARSKY
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:43amThey dont allow babies to be taken off the floor because people were walking off with babies and also they need to cover their own asses for insurance reasons since we have become so lawsuit happy. This is a perfect example of why they have this policy, Who in their right mind would scuffle with nurses while holding a newborn?
Report Post »Boss J
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:47amThe hospital has it’s rules and regulations for the same reason that every thing you see has 10 warning stickers on it now. Some jack-knob F’d it up for the rest of us! So I side with the hospital on this one. If it was such a big deal for him to take the baby off the maternity floor then there was a simple solution, check your family out of the hospital. But I guess when you an East coast elite you don’t have to worry about rules and what not.
Report Post »vjt
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:00pmI am a hospital worker. People really try to steal babies! It is all related to security and lawsuit avoidance.
Report Post »Pigpen
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:04pm13TH IMAM posted: “When my two children were born if I pulled [sic] this, I would have been in jail. Where this POS should be. ”
Everybody should be looking at this story from the 13TH IMAM’s point of view. REGARDLESS of whether the hospitals should have this rule, it is a rule for EVERY hospital and therefore for EVERYONE who gives birth in a US Hospital. THIS STORY is a piece of evidence that should be LEVERAGED to show to those who still have their 1950′s America rose-colored glasses on that we are all EQUAL in this country. WE ARE NOT! The ELITE have established themselves socially, economically, and now LEGALLY as separate and distinct. RFK’s boy has just shown us how entitled these privileged few feel, and just exactly what they will do to working people like YOU AND ME if they are not treated in the elite manner to which they feel entitled. And if you dumb Cr@ckers don’t wake up to that fact soon and start demanding equal, Equal, EQUAL JUSTICE, then these elites will use the swarming minorities and homosexuals and every foul docrine of -isms that they can manufacture to place your whitebread @sses into that same ghetto that we now call the “third world”. And it will all happen right here on the American soil your forefathers died to leave to you. WAKE UP. STOP FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER!!!
Report Post »lillymckim
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:05pmIf the nurses knew he was the father he had every right in the wold to take his son out of the hospital.
I don’t believe it called for the alleged violence if thats what in fact happened.
Report Post »glnwat
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:12pmHave non of you people,( STGB, 2BARBRAW, BSIPSON,) who are bad mouthing the hospital been to the matunity ward or read the news paper latley? Baby snaching, kiddnapping, any of that sound familure? THE HOSPITAL HAS POLICIES THAT WERE SET UP TO PROTECT IT FROM A-HOLES LIKE KENNEDY FROM LAW SUITS ! No one can leave a hospital until released, much less a BABY. God people, point out loss of rights where is occures, not where a policy is in foce to protect a new born. ” Oh no there go our rights, dang o goverment taking them away,” you people make all of us look like morons.
Report Post »mrst
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:12pmSeriously? Newborns are in hospital all of 24 hours these days, he can’t wait that long? Arrogant ‘self important snobb & bully‘ is what I’m seeing.
Report Post »photobymike
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:20pmMost of the people commenting here do not understand how a maternity floor operates. Every-time a baby moves or is given to the mother or father there is a check of identification and a double check… Nurses have procedures and protocols in place to protect first the baby then the mother and family. They are very serious about these procedures (it also protects the hospital from liability) The hospital that my wife works at would not allow this either. Not because they want to inconvenience a Kennedy but to protect the baby. If you doubt this just try and go sight seeing in your local hospital in the newborn ward. Even if you are family…. not all the nurses know this and are to busy to get aquatinted with all the parents on the floor.
What i saw was an arrogant ***** with a sense of entitlement mentality. The reporters were probably waiting in the lobby and he wanted a photo op.
Report Post »mils
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:36pmall he had to do was speak with a charge nurse, show id, and arrangements could have been made…but he chose to act like a fool. if anyone, a stranger, had actually walked off with that child, unchallenged, there would be hell to pay
Report Post »the nurses were in the right. just because you have a famous/infamous name doesn’t give you special privileges..
sURFNmADNESS
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:45pmIf you have had a kid in the last 10 years+ you would know about the alarm systems found in most major maternity wards. We were warned months in advance on walk through not to even get near the elevators or fire escapes with your newborns. The ankle alarms automatically go off and lock down the ward to keep people from stealing babies from the floor. Obviously Douglas must have not attended the walk through with his wife of the maternity ward and it’s rules.
Report Post »Kimberly04
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:04pmWe are loosing our freedoms and it scares me for my children and grandchildren what this country will be like 30 years from now.
Report Post »football lady
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:07pmThis is nonsense to excuse this behavior. Has nothing to do with liberties. It has everything to do with reasonable hospital rules to protect the patients while in their care. Babies have been abducted by impostors many times from maternity wards. Their safety trumps Mr. Kennedy’s desires to take his baby out for fresh air. Can do that all he wants once that baby is discharged from the hospitals which is probably within 1 or 2 days unless, of course, there are medical complications. Common sense, common sense please.
Report Post »football lady
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:09pmNonsense!
Report Post »Thoughtfully Grounded
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:14pmCharged with harassment? Why not assault?
Report Post »BigRighty
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:15pmWhen is the last time you people were in a maternity ward? They don’t let anyone out with a newborn. We had wrist tags and if we stepped out with the newborn alarms will go off! Strict policies at the best hospitals are put in place to protect infants from being snatched. Maybe the nurses just didn’t recognize one of the ALL-MIGHTY Kennedys and know that the regular rules did not apply to him. For God’s sake people, don’t you know who he is. Babies don’t leave the maternity ward until mother is discharged and identification tags are removed. This protects parents and babies and and covers hospital liability. Smarten up Kennedy defenders, he was wrong, but I’m sure the nurses will be villified, I already saw the lawyers blaming the nurses.
Report Post »Trenaway
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:30pmJefferson might have said that after Ben Franklin. That is a Ben Franklin quote, get your facts straight.
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:45pmHaven’t you heard? Hospital rules are only for us commoners. Royalty gets a free pass every time. The employees were somehow not made aware of this. Retraining sessions are in order here.
Report Post »MDDAWG
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:51pmWhat a stupid situation.
Report Post »I don’t have any fondness for the Kennedy family, but this is just wrong on too many levels.
Why can’t a father take his son outside? If the nurses thought it was a danger to the infant, let the father know what danger there is, then the father makes the decision.
Why are the nurses trying to restrain the father?
Why is Kennedy not listening to the nurses?
It’s all messed up. Another sign of the loss of civility and respect on all sides.
candcantiques
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:02pmIf this is my child, he/she is fully healthy, the nurse knows who I am, and I am not drunk or under the influence then they had damn site better stay the he11 out of my way. You try to take my kid from me I will send you on your way to the father. Screw government and insurance co rules. IT’S MY SON GET OUT OF MY WAY.
Report Post »holycow
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:13pmBSIMPSON, I think you are mistaken that the Blaze posted this in disagreement with his actions.
Report Post »ccfonten
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 2:57pmAs a Registered Nurse, I can tell you that a 2/3 day old infant has no business being taken outside for “fresh air” or anything else. Their immune systems are still quite immature. They are markedly susceptible to extremes of temperature…………an infant this young can die from the cold quite easily.
Report Post »When you are discharged from the hospital, you don’t just walk out holding your infant….the mom rides out with her in a wheel chair. This is also for the protection of the infant. Dropping one this young can do irreversible damage or death. Typical the bystander MD would side with the Kennedy and against the nurses who were doing their job appropriately. MD’s are notorious for letting a nurse take all the blame so the MD can look good. And that Kennedy needs to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
Polwatcher
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:20pmAnyone who thinks that they can walk into a hospital, grab a baby and walk out, is short on brains. When parents check into a hospital, they sign some papers that give the hospital the authority to care for the patient. The reasons for this are many and they are obvious for anyone that isn’t short on brains. If anyone doesn’t want to agree to these terms, they can take care of themselves and their baby somewhere else.
Report Post »Faith1029
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:15pmThe hospital is responsible for this baby and by taking it outside, anything could happen such as the baby getting sick or the father tripping and falling, anything, and they would be sued. If you have surgery and you are discharged, you have to be wheeled to your car in case something happens because the hospital would be responsible. Everyone is lawsuit happy so I totally agree with the hospital. Yes it’s his baby, but it is under the hospital’s care until discharged. Don’t want to go by the rules then have the baby at home. Rules apply to everyone, even a Kennedy. He should be charged with assault.
Report Post »koyettsu
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:23pmI agree, it is his child, how dare they tell him what he can and cant do with his child.
Report Post »BRONZESTAR
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:24pmThis is all about a 2 day old infant in Jan to go out for fresh air. Duhh
1 Father was not authorized.
2 All newborns lose upto 25% birth weight within first 48 hrs.
3 Mother may have had difficult delivery, low apgars on newborn.
I cold go forever, but the sorry fact of the matter is that the staff are mandated by law (at least in most states) to prevent nonauthorized persons from contact or leaving with child. He was wrong Kennedy or not
Just saying
Report Post »rickfromthecape
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:32pmok. I’ve lived on cape cod for my entire life. Let me tell you that this is TYPICAL Kennedy Kid behavior! They have ZERO respect for anyones authority. They are the ultimate of privaledged elitism! The story does not into the reasons the nurse wouldn’t let him go out with the baby (of which my wife a nurse informs me there are many) so to go there is PURE speculation. The real sad news is that Joe Kennedy’s son is running for Barney Franks seat and already has a 30 point lead. This state makes me sick!
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:45pmShould have rented the whole ward like Beyonce!
Report Post »toto
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 5:44pmI am no Kennedy fan, and this may be a blessing in disguise for liberty loving people if Kennedy gets a clue as to what is happening in our country. It was HIS baby and if he wanted to take it out of the hospital, he had every right. The only thing necessary should be an ID check, bracelet check, to make sure he was the baby’s father. I hope he is outraged and becomes involved in the anti-Obama era.
Report Post »Julie55
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:07pmIt’s insane to issue a code pink on a father who is taking his OWN baby out for some air. The baby was two days old, so Kennedy was probably a regular presence on the floor, and someone knew he was the father, not a kidnapper. Do you lose all parental rights in a hospital? These nurses made a mistake and should apologize. After all, Kenendy fell on the ground with the baby in his arms after they lunged at him. My guess is the hospital thought he might sue, so they pressed charges.
Report Post »Ne_FAL
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:18pmThe Kennedy should have been arrested for assault & battery at the very least. Also your typical hospital maternity ward has several “PANIC BUTTONS” as well as specific procedures & protocols to prevent people kidnapping newborn infants.
Sad to say these protocols have been put in place after cases of infants being taken by strangers.
That is why the Kennedy doofus was stopped ,when he became combative & abusive to the staff they followed procedure & reacted like it was an attempted kidnapping of a newborn.
Fortunate for daddy that he didn’t try to give a ration of excrement to the SECURITY types who get trained regularly in unarmed combat/ PPCT/mace training . the incident could have ended up with the idiot being admitted for broken bones.
Report Post »D-Fence
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:09pmHe’s an elitist pig and thinks he knows best, can do anything he wants. Typical.
Report Post »MCAinSTL
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:16pmI’m an RN. The attitudes against the nurses I’m reading is typical of the a-holes we have to deal with on a daily basis. All hospitals have rules about these things. If something happened to the baby, the hospital would have been blamed. It’s not good for a baby to be exposed to “fresh air” and a bunch of people until their antibodies (resistance) is built up. Also it’s the rules. Also, the sissy kennedy didn’t try to assault the hospital security, just the female nurses. Wonder why there is a nurse shortage? I’m sick of how we are treated. I‘m 5’9″ and 250lbs solid, and ex-Navy. Sometimes it takes every fiber of my being to not beat the crap out of some of the visitors that come in with their meely mouths. The true sign of a coward is someone who mouths off to someone who they know can’t respond due to risk of losing their job. It would feel good to F them up, just sayn’
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:56pmMaybe I can offer a valid explanation. The nursing staff said “don’t do it”. If this is where they gave a fuller explanation to him I don‘t know but it’s clear from the story they had told him he could not remove the newborn from the floor. If I could venture a guess I would think it had something to do with security. Can you see him riding down the elevator and walking through the lobby with a newborn rapped in a hospital blanket. I don’t Think So
Report Post »Grey Eagle
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:07pmNurses are responsible for that infant while it is a patient in the hospital. Kennedy was way out of line and physically attacking the nurses was beyond the pale. If he wants the baby to “get some fresh air”, then he needed to wait until the baby was discharged to go home.
Report Post »OuttheSocialist
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:14pmThere are very strick rules in hospitals regarding newborns. The rules are in place to protect the infants from being kidnapped from the hospital. The nurses were only protecting the newborn. Mr. Kennedy is a good for nothing dirty Democrat that believes he deserves special privlages because of who his daddy was.
Report Post »Don’t worry, your poor little democrat will only get a slap on the wrist and the nurses will most likely go to jail or have their careers destroyed. The Doctor who is vouching for Mr. Kennedy probably rubs elbows with the dirty bunch and will be glad to throw a few low level nurses under the bus to maintain his status with the family.
Lunertic
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:49pmWrong on two accounts.
Report Post »1. It wasn’t Thomas Jefferson who you quote but rather Benjamin Franklin.
2. It is his Baby but his Baby is the responsibility of the Hospital until Baby and Mother are discharged.
This isn’t a common incident. In fact it is very rare and unusual. Since it involved a Kennedy, the two
Nurses didn’t stand a chance. Act and get fired or do nothing and get fired. It should have never
happened.
KevINtampa
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 12:40amWith a case this high profile, it does after all involve a Kennedy, I can sense that this will be used as a reason to create another Homeland Security department once all the hospitals are essentially owned by the feds. The HSA to go right along with the TSA.
I’m sorry, but. hospital guidelines and security measures don‘t trump this man’s right, any man’s right, to care for his child. You try to pull my kid out of my arms, situation be damned, I wouldn’t have it. Sorry. Plain and simple. My kid, my arms, take your hands off him if I tell you to. The fact you don‘t know who I am doesn’t matter. The fact I’m in a hospital, doesn’t matter. My kid, you try to pull a child from the hands of his legitimate father, that’s a failure in your so called “security” regulations, and after you assault me and my child by trying to pull him from me; you must expect a defense to that assault you perpetrated.
ALSO. Even if we say he wasn’t in the right, and he endangered the safety of HIS child, SO DID THE NURSES. They endangered the child by putting the father in a defensive position. They escalated the issue and they should be brought up on the same charges. Hey Blaze, what’s the email address for the district Prosecutor in this case? If you have it, you should ask them to comment if they intend to raise any charges against the nurses.
FYI The headline should read:
Hospital Learns What Happens When They Try to Pull Child From His Father
Report Post »oldladyremembers
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:05amDid anyone notice – the baby is two days old. Very rarely do babies stay in the hospital for two days unless there is a problem these days. Maybe fifty years ago they stayed for 5 days, but now it’s only 24 hours. So the babies health may have been in jeopardy, and anyone who would take his baby out for FRESH AIR in FEBRUARY is an imbecile. If he was taking the baby home, different story, in an out of hospital to car to house. maybe a total of 15 mins total. Look at what the baby was wrapped in!!!!!!!
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:47am@KEVINTAMPA
Your false bravado is real impressive and all…/SarcasmOff…but it’s nonsense in this case. You agree to the hospital rules when you are admitted or you aren’t admitted. You are made well aware that you aren’t allowed to take a baby out of the maternity ward for any reason prior to being discharged. These protocols are in place for very good reasons. They aren’t just random mumbo jumbo regulations used to keep a boot on your neck.
You can spout off about what you’d do to somebody in that situation all you like. Those protocols aren’t going away nor should they. If you don’t like them, then hire a midwife and have your baby at home.
Report Post »Raider1
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:59amSome people will just never “get it” I don’t understand why so many are in such a need for a master. This is why Ron Paul doesn’t have a chance. Too many Americans have no understanding of our decleration and constitution. Fewer still would know what to do with the rights and responsibilities it requires of us.
Report Post »Macman1138
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:51amYeah, he’s acting like a true Kennedy.
Report Post »It’s in the blood.
loriann12
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:00amMaybe the baby’s billirubin (however you spell that) count was high, meaning he had jaundice, and needed time under the ultra-violet light. My son was in the hospital 2 days longer than me because of that. I was tempted to sneak him out under my coat, but I did what was best for him. Sometimes I think the Kennedy family think they’re above the law, laws aren’t made to apply to THEM. Having a brawl while holding your infant? Unbelievable.
Report Post »USAF2003
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 9:41amLeave Me, My Baby, My Family, My Religion & My Guns Alone! That’s Freedom! for you idiots that can’t understand it
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:18amIf Kennedy had dropped the baby or something had happened to the baby while he was taking the baby outside for fresh air the hospital would be liable. The rules of the hospital are in place for everyone and to protect the hospital from being sued should something happen to a child. The security in place on maternity wards is to prevent children from being kidnapped. At the end of the day Kennedy violated the hospitals rules and physically assaulted people when he couldn’t have his way. For decades the Kennedy family has shown themselves to be above the law and above rules that are for commoners. More than likely some Liberal slip and fall Lawyer will represent Kennedy and the hospital will settle out of court for some astronomical amount and possibly lose their insurance and have to find another insurance policy that will cost a lot more In the end the cost will be pushed to the hospital patrons. All because this guy threw a temper tantrum for not getting his way. I hope the hospital counter sues Kennedy for assault and child endangerment. I just have one thing to say Mary Jo Kopechne.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:43am“Those willing to sacrifice liberty for security, deserve neither and WILL lose both.”
Once again, the most naive and idiotic of all quotes rears it’s ugly head. You may as well save yourself the typing and simply write “I am an unthinking fool”.
The entire foundation of civilization rests on surrendering liberty for security. That is why we have laws. Moreover, you don’t even cite the quote properly. The proper quote is:
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Notice those terms “essential” and “temporary”, which conveniently disappear 99% of the time some nitwit decides to post this as what they I’m sure think is a kiler argument against what it normally a common-sense rule or law.
A government saying surrender all your guns and we will promise to protect you is an example of surrendering an essential liberty for a temporary safety. A hospital putting into place common-sense rules to avoid infant abduction is SO not an example of this that it makes my head spin.
If surrendering ANY liberty for the sake of ANY security is ALWAYS bad, then all you’re doing is promoting anarchy. And history has shown us how much better THAT is to having a civilized nation of laws.
Report Post »Taquoshi
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:57amWhen our son was born some twenty odd years ago, one of the nurses walked into the room just as some relatives were leaving and overheard one family member say, “We’ll see you at the picnic next Saturday.” Immediate red flags! The baby was too young to go to a picnic! Fortunately, the attending OB/GYN was from a big family and used to having family members around newborns, so she didn’t freak. However, we did have to call her to sign the papers to release our son since the on-call wasn’t going to because the on-call didn’t want the baby going to a picnic. It wasn’t her call to make.
Report Post »Link8on
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:27pmOpen a window, Dude !
Report Post »jds7171
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:29pmYou guys are idiots. The reason they didn’t want them taking the baby out is Liability. The hospital didn’t want to get sued. Why do you think they require a patient be wheeled out in a wheel chair. LIABILITY issues. Its just like if a kid is on my property. I could be held liable if the kid is hurt. They don’t want the baby to get sick by going outside and then having the Kennedys sue the hospital. We know they can’t make money the legitimately. They have to get it illegal or suck on the taxpayers tit.
Report Post »JMorcan
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 1:50pm“Part of the paperwork he signed walking in was to abide by the rules and regulations of the hospitals.”
That gives the hospital the right to sue him, not the right to physically confront or assault him. Hopefully the truth of what happened will be determined at his hearing.
Report Post »the1whowaites
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 2:57pmNewborns can not regulate their body tempature well and shouldn’t be taken outside for fresh air.
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:21pmSo many of you people are like a box of rocks, no brains. Human beings have lived on this planet how long? and we havent had hospitals like we do now for 99% of the time humans have existed. Someone stated fresh air is bad for the kid? Really? Oh and it’s a better idea to keep the kid in the one place you will find more germs that anywhere else? Hospitals are the WORST place for an infant to be. Outside in his fathers arms is 100% more sanitary. Someone stated what if the father droped the baby. Really? They stated the baby goes with mom in a wheelchair when they leave the hospital so it’s much safer. Oh ok i forgot. She doesnt have to stand to get in the car. There is absolutely no chance she could drop the baby. You know what we can what if what if what if all day long. The bottom line is the father has more of a say about the health and welfare of that baby than a nurse does. PERIOD!
Report Post »Anamah
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:23pmIf he doesn‘t accept hospital’s rules why he and his wife have chosen one to have a baby? This Progressive people are always in their bubble, considering themselves part of the elite.
Report Post »IIIcorp
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 6:42pmI am a Kennedy, therefore I am immune from rules that the rest of you must obey. I am a descendant of the last US royal family. Kiss my ring and step aside peasant.
Report Post »mlcblog
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 2:59amEvery hospital has this policy to protect the newborns.
Report Post »budzy1911
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 7:49amBoth of our children could not leave the hospital in my arms – they had to be in the arms of my wife while we wheeled her to the car. This was after 3 separate checks of ID’s, wristbands, paperwork. A guy walking out of the maternity ward of a hospital with a baby in his arms raises all kinds of red flags.
Because he is a kennedy he thinks he is above the law, he could have just turned around. You and I would have been tasered, cuffed, and charged with aggravated assault. They will drop all charges and let him go because kennedy’s do not live by the same rules and us common folk.
Report Post »freebell11
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 11:42amCome on people, you must be kidding! Surely you have heard of child abductions, even by parents. At the hospital where I work, we have Code Pink practice alerts all the time in order to be ready for an event like this. What if the parents were estranged, what if Kennedy walked outside with the baby and handed it over to a person in a car who drove off with him, what if someone had snatched the baby from Kennedy when he was outside? Not even parents are allowed to take the babies off the floor. Once that infant is out of the nursery or off the post-partum floor the hospital and staff no longer have any control over the baby’s safety. But yet who is the first entity the family will sue? The hospital. Surely as many children and babies as there are in the Kennedy family they have heard of this rule before. This is a matter of an arrogant SOB who wanted to flaunt authority and he injured 2 nurses who were only trying to protect his child.
Report Post »CZ805
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 12:05pmWell BSIMPSON this is not about liberty, it is about liability and security.
Report Post »First of all, there is no hospital conspiracy. Hospital is not a government agency but a private business so EVERYONE has to follow its rules if you do not want to follow, take your wife your child home or somewhere else that you will not have to follow anybody’s rules.
I read your other posts about reasonable jury would not hold a hospital liable if something would happen, well I could show you a lot of rulings where reason wasn’t part of it. Just one example McDonald restaurant and lady that burnt herself with hot coffee a few years back. Sorry not every jury is reasonable.
In private entity if you don’t follow rules you can leave, and I believe our Forefathers meant freedom from government not common sense.
In private business your freedom ends at the door, but you can always leave anytime.
If you come to my store and think that you can behave anyway you like you are mistaken. There are rules in my store and if you behave like an idiot you WILL leave my store.
LCrabb04
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:57pmThe reason babies are not removed from hospitals/rooms, the way it was explained to me when my daughter was born, is that they want to make sure that A). Baby is completely healthy before release and B). They want to make sure that baby isn’t being stolen. Now, when it comes to removing baby from the room, this can only be done with MOM’s okay as well as the attending Doctor. If Mr. and Mrs. Kennedy were being released that day they needed only to wait until discharge and then baby could have gotten all the fresh air he needed. Otherwise, the hospital needs to cover its butt and make sure that no one is making off with a baby, EVEN their own.
Report Post »hempstead1944
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:42amMistreating women runs in the Kennedy DNA……the nurse should be glad this jerk didn’t offer her a ride in his car…..now that really could have been dangerous.
Report Post »Smith523
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:48amRemember…..the normal rules the every other citizen has to obey, NEVER apply to a Kennedy…especially rape, murder or the treatment of women
Report Post »Miyegombo Bayartsogt
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:53amOr an airplane ride. Kennedy men are liberal heroes and liberal women love Kennedy men because a Kennedy man knows how to treat a lady.
Report Post »mils
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:29amHe’s a Kennedy, what do you expect? White trash with money
Report Post »Like the car ride over a bridge thing.
There are rules and regulations in every hospital, he was not following them. It is his child, and the child was still in the care of the hospital, period. He had no business to hit anyone, period If he had gone and spoken with the charge nurse, they could have cleared him and he probably could have taken the child out..but no, not him….
He’s a Kennedy, what do you expect? White trash with money.
football lady
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:13pmGood one!
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:13pmTo know a Kennedy… to hate them!
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:42amNurse forgot that he was a Kennedy and can do anything he damned well pleases. Royalty doesn‘t have to follow no stinkin’ rules.
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:33pmbob you are truly a moron. You forgot the FIRST rule. The FATHER has more say about the child than a ANYONE, nurse doctor judge ANYONE other than the mother. IT’S HIS CHILD. I could give a damn if it’s a Kennedy or not. I’d do the same for you. YOU have more say over YOUR child than I do. Why is it different because it was a nurse, IT ISNT.
Report Post »brntout
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:39amAnyone catch the reference to Code Pink? Is that when he nailed her in the groin? Then changed to Code Purple the after effect?
Report Post »felix
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:39amis this the kennedy clown thats is going to run for the senate seat of sen. gabby – if so, this will be a resume inhancement in the demothug,communist party !
Report Post »rationallyurs
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:37amguess odummy will say the nurse acted stupidly and as the to have a crack summit
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:12pmThe nurse has no class.this is his newborn child and the nurse showed no sensitivity or humaneness in how she dealth with him.Typical of so many people in positions of power.How you talk to someone makes all the difference.just laying down the rules is antagonistic and crass.She lacks professionalism as a nurse.The irony is how often these hospitals push people out the door when they’ve barely recuperated from illness or surgery.it is the hospitals responsibility to have a safe ,humane system fo rpairing the parents and the new born.Why he thinks the two day old baby needs fresh air i don’t get .
Report Post »beverlee
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:55pmHere’s to hoping the “classless” nurse sues the pants off the irrational idiot.
Report Post »RedSoloCup
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 4:49pmrose-ellen
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:12pm
The nurse has no class.this is his newborn child and the nurse showed no sensitivity or humaneness in how she dealth with him.Typical of so many people in positions of power.How you talk to someone makes all the difference.just laying down the rules is antagonistic and crass.She lacks professionalism as a nurse.The irony is how often these hospitals push people out the door when they’ve barely recuperated from illness or surgery.it is the hospitals responsibility to have a safe ,humane system fo rpairing the parents and the new born.Why he thinks the two day old baby needs fresh air i don’t get .
TROLL ALERT!
Report Post »republitarian
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 7:09pmI agree with Rose-Ellen on this. She makes a good point. Rule are rules, but the nurses acted stupidly while trying to enforce them.
Report Post »snooop1e
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 11:23am@republitarian – “The nurse acted stupidly” Didn’t Obama once utter those same words?
Report Post »auntmoxie.com
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:35amMore proof that the old adage, “Money doesn’t buy class” is true.
Report Post »calonzap
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:33amYou are sooo right about that. This was another low-class action by a low-class individual who belongs to a low-class family clan…..and notice the intellectually-challenged knuckleheads who have taken up for him…..low-class, all.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:17amYou nailed it .. the Kennedy‘s haven’t had “class” … they come from a bootlegging thug .. they have tried to marry class .. as Jack did with Jackie .. but the men .. none!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:34am“You can’t tell me what to do, I’m a Kennedy!” Typical, they all love the common man yet, ready to kick him in the nutz if you disagree with them.
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:37pmWho gives a rats azz if it’s a Kennedy or not. If it’s YOUR child who the heck is the nurse to tell YOU what you are allowed to do with YOUR child.?
Report Post »denispaul
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:33amI guess the nurse tripped over her own two feet.Their is a song for this called :LIAR LIAR.:
Report Post »MBA
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:30amis there not one person in the over indulged and undeservedly privileged kennedy family that knows how to act like a rational human being? the is rhetorical of course the answer is no.
Report Post »Mil-Dot
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 1:08pmThe Kennedys have had so much smoke blown up their asses over the last 5 decades they have developed serious mental issues. Megalomania runs in their blood. Mark my words, he will not spend an hour in jail. If it was one of us regular pions, we would get 2-5 for felony assault. Whoever took out John Kennedy should have finished the job and got the rest of them as well.
Report Post »candcantiques
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 3:43pmCAN WE PLEASE FORGET THAT IT’S A KENNEDY? Lets say I am a doctor. I TELL you how you should dress your kid, I TELL you it’s to cold to take your kid outside, I TELL you you cannot pick your kid up because you might drop him. WHAT GIVES ME THE RIGHT? This is YOUR kid. I do not have the right. YOU are the father. YOU have the rights. Forget about its a Kennedy. Do YOU want a nurse telling YOU what you can and cannot do with YOUR child?
Report Post »rickfromthecape
Posted on February 26, 2012 at 5:48pmcandcantiques;
Report Post »all of the examples you gave are pointless, and have nothing to do with this case. I do want a nurse who will look after my baby! All he had to do was walk over to the charge nurse and she would have settled any misunderstanding…of course being a Kennedy, he is above all that! Are any of you Kennedy defenders here thinking about all the cases of child abduction from hospital nurseries that involve custody battles?
garygromele
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:28amBoy, He sure would make his father proud. A true bootlegger’s legacy.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:36amOle Joe Kennedy runnin liquor,they‘re criminals the whole clan and we can’t forget the drunk murderer Teddy.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:50amTeddy isn’t even the only drunk murderer in the family. Remember the one that bashed his girlfriends head in with a golf club? The only more elitist murder weapon might be the polo mallet!
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:03amYes the Martha Moxley murder,I don’t know if the murderer is still in prison or not,and the Kennedy clan is similar to Saddam Husseins family with their penchant for murder.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:08pmRichard Skakel is still in prison.. But trying to weasel out by saying he was a minor at the time. he went and played a round on martha’s head.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:09pmUpdate just recently on the Moxley murder .. the Kennedy wanted to get out of prison claiming that if they had caught him when he was a minor he would have served a shorter sentence. I kid you not .. hey if you had confessed when you were a minor .. you would be out now idiot!
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:26amElitist POS. That nurse should now own a little part of kennybunk.
Report Post »Buster_Highman
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:45amThat’s where the Bushes live. The Kennedys live in Massachusetts.
Report Post »Polarized America
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:58amwell if you want to get technical, Bush #1 had a home in kennybunkport
Report Post »CPLGEORGE
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 3:49pmWrong piece of property. Kennebunkport is the Home of Bush 41. I wonder if they checked the mother’s milk to see if it contains all the proper food groups? (OK kid, open up, chicken nuggets for you!)
Report Post »brntout
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:26amAnd someone help me here,what part of the groin does the pelvis fall under?
Report Post »AmericanStrega
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:05pmIt’s the pelvis, the whole pelvis, and nothing but the pelvis.
Report Post »Sojourner
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:25amTrust fund baby. Not the small baby, but the big baby.
Kick a girl in the groin? NY, MA… She will still get a stern talking to by the judge.
Report Post »Buck Shane
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:32amI can do anything I want; I’m a Kennedy.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:25amThere should have been a code black & blue on Douglas’s candyass.
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:24amDo men have reproductive rights?
Report Post »Do men have the right to do for their child what they feel is right?
Is the hospital liable if the child is injured?
Is the hospital liable with a child is stolen in such a manner (if the father was unknown)?
BSimpson
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:58amJason, I don’t think some of these people are wanting to think that deep. I hope Glenn covers it, or else they may never question whether Kennedy (despite flaws) was the victim or the nurse was.
Report Post »JQCitizen
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:04amAs long as the baby has not been been released by the hospital they have discretion as to where the baby is allowed. Since they have legal culpability, they have the say. It’s not a Liberty issue unless and until legal liability laws are changed.
Besides; this is a Kennedy, right? It looks like the nurse’s inclination for him to be overseen was proved justified, right? He acted like a spoiled maniac.
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:13amYeah that was my first inclination. An example of a spoiled brat/man. I guess I would have to know more. If identified as the father, you would think the hospital warning him would clear liability. At which point did they begin restraining and touching the man. They may have been over board. Cooler heads on all sides would of changed this outcome.
Report Post »Duddio
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:52amAbsolutely the use of common language would have changed the outcome. I always tell my kids. “Use your words.” This means I want them to explain what they want instead of just reacting. If hospitals had a policy of telling parents about their liability issues & have a simple release handy for him to sign absolving them of liability, this would have been a 5-minute detour for Dad before he got to walk with his son. Just screaming and grabbing at Baby gets you slapped down. This isn’t a Kennedy flaw, its the God-given instinct of a parent: This is my child, don’t try to take them from me.
I‘m cringing while reading all the responses that place God’s almighty authority on nurses and hospitals. Like parental rights are all dissolved because you chose to become a client of this medical establishment. It absolutely IS a liberty issue! If he was verified to be the father, then he has a right to his son, unless you believe that children belong to the state.
The last place the progressives will remove all freedom from America will be through our healthcare. If we don’t own our bodies, & if parents have no say over doctors and nurses, and the federal government takes over healthcare, we are doomed. What do you think Obamacare was all about? Control! Just like this small example. They know better than a stupid dad, so dad must yield.
Wake up, kids!
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:23amPlease allow the superior Kennedy clan to just go away.
They were and are a national disgrace
I hope the nurse charges him with assault and he does time.
Report Post »Fat chance with the liberal judges in New York!
JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:22amwow i never had a comment deleted before.
Report Post »drago
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:45am@justjason.
Report Post »Wow, you’ve never posted here before, until today, at least under that name ……encinom
F-n re-tard….
JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:08amhaha I am not emicom. I have posted here many times. Search it. I dont live here though.
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:19amDRAGO, you are so funny man.
Report Post »RedSoloCup
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:48amAh it must hurt to be wrong 99% (no pun intended) of the time.
Report Post »originalthought
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:22amWorked as a summer cop on the Cape one summer i MA . The stories of the mis- conduct and coverups for this family of rich spoiled brats are ledged. Also amazed to fined that the local business owners hated them even more . They never paid their bills!
Report Post »rickfromthecape
Posted on February 27, 2012 at 10:05amoriginalthought;
Just to confirm your claim that locals (meaning those that were born here and not the liberal washashores from N.Y. that now infest this place!) can‘t stand the Kennedy’s. My dad and I did some work for Rose Kennedy and it took over a year to get paid. they asked for us again and my dad said “never in a million years would I work for you again!” I did some work for Joe (young Joe) and he was an absolute pain in the butt!
Report Post »UICDAD
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:21amHe’s a Kennedy…what do you expect?
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:20amWow… this will be an interesting debate.
Do men have reproductive rights?
Do men have the right to do what he feel is right for his child?
Would a hospital be liable if a child was hurt?
Would a hospital be liable if a child was stolen in this manner (if father unknown)?
This will be interesting on the blaze today.
Report Post »JustJason
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:22amman… it simply became political.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:26amPlease go to your comfort zone
Report Post »try the Huffington post site
SgtB
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 9:48amThere should be no debate. A father tried to take HIS child outside. No one should have the right to tell him what to do with his own child. Not even a doctor or the state. It is obvious that he was not “stealing” his own child because in 99% of hospitals the parents and children are given matching wristbands or similar ID.
On a related note, did you know that as soon as a child is born in a hospital, they take some blood supposedly for DNA testing and disease screening? Then that information is kept on file in a national database. Just what purpose could the gov’t have for keeping DNA records of all children born? I look forward to more people in the future deciding what is best for themselves and their children instead of always taking a nurse or doctor’s opinion on everything. It that were my child and the nurse tried to physically restrain me and take my child away, she would have gotten alot worse than a kick to the pelvis.
Report Post »R4M0N
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:19amWell, he grew up hearing the media call them “America’s Royal Family”. Are we surprised he acted like it?
Report Post »brntout
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:19amHey Libs ,welcome to Obama care that you so wanted and desired! Idiots!
Report Post »brntout
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:23amWomb to the tomb ,your child is their’s,thanks to uncle Teddy.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 12:27pmHe just got a preview of Odummer care. But he is a KENNEDY so therefore he is above any rules and regulations which might be in place. All he had to do was to call the doctor and have him tell the staff to allow him to take his baby outside and all of this would have been avoided.
Report Post »matinva
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:19amWhat a surprise! Another Kennedy who thinks rules don’t apply to him.
Report Post »misteryuck
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 8:17amHe is a Kennedy. He did nothing wrong. The rules do not apply here. Move along… Nothing to see here…
Report Post »Pontiac
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 10:57am[Douglas Kennedy is the 10th child of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy.]
Report Post »Holy crap. How many more self important & all entitled Kennedy’s do we need?
NOT A CRAZY
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:32amHe is a Kennedy? That is probably the reason WHY they were worried. After all he may have been drunk and on his way for a joy ride across a bridge.
Report Post »RedSoloCup
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 11:50amJust an idea, but maybe most hospitals should start hiring armed guards with tazers in the event a Kennedy shows up.
Report Post »Julie55
Posted on February 25, 2012 at 6:12pmWhose kid is at anyway? It”s a sad day when a father can’t take his baby outside for some fresh air without being attacked and accused of being a kidnapper. Code pink! Somebody thinks he has parental rights! Code pink!
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