I'm not sure if this is an acceptable source but they say they're quoting from actual court documents including medical records and there is an official looking court document linked below the post and the video.
http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/06/baby-sammy-court-documents-reveal-confli
http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/18...llow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll
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JMO but if I was a doctor presented with a failure-to-thrive, dehydrated baby with a heart defect and parents who seem to be more concerned about asserting their rights not to follow medical advice than what is best for their baby and refuse to allow the baby to have the medication, the hydration and the nutrition he needs in my opinion I would probably have been extremely worried about this child too. If the parents have an attitude, saying you want a second opinion and you want the baby to have the surgery later could be just an excuse to get away from all medical interference.
The document states that when in hospital, after being taken by the CPS, the nurses tried bottle feeding the baby but he was too weak to finish a bottle as the sucking took too much energy for him. The mother only wanted to give him pureed foods and refused to feed him formula. He was in respiratory distress and both sides of his heart had enlarged.
MOO, they may very well have saved his life by taking him into protective custody and getting the surgery done.
ETA: at least some of the original news articles and videos played his heart problems down stating his problem was "a heart murmur" but what he in fact had, according to the document, was a congenital heart defect (ventricular septal defect and atrial septal defect and a patent foramen ovale) and congestive heart failure that was affecting his lungs. The heart murmur was no doubt technically not a lie either as heart defects cause heart murmurs but it sounds so much more benign to tell the media that my baby has a heart murmur and is doing fine than saying that he has large holes in his heart that I'm not willing to let them fix.
ETA 2: people were wondering up thread why CPS didn't follow up with the second hospital. They did, or tried to. There is some info from the Kaiser medical staff but the social services at Kaiser said they were unable to provide any information citing privacy laws.
Here's a MSM link:
http://www.news10.net/news/local/article/262349/2/CPS-court-records-and-the-battle-for-baby-Sammy
ETA 3: the parents said they were going to sue the CPS.
http://www.news10.net/news/local/article/248770/476/CPS-case-against-Nikolayev-family-dismissed
ETA 4: the claim about the doctors refusing to allow a second opinion about the surgery doesn't seem to be true. The cardiologist is named in the scribd document and says he gave the parents the contact information for other area cardiologists and advised them to get it quickly but instead of seeking a second opinion the family went on vacation without Sammy's medicines.
Who are these doctors to tell these parents what to do...? They only studied, like, two decades, to get where they are now, so what do they know...?