sarah , what what are these creeps talking about here? yeah, i think it was reallyainl certainly disturbing to us to seedisee ho how often it cam. at another point when when josh parents took custody of the kids guardians, they were asked if mormons believe inr corporal punishment. belief which had really nothing to do with our case, because we don t we don t use corporal punishment. , regardless osofss of mormon teaching,mo they don t preach more corporal punishment. it was entirely beside pre the point for our case. and i thind i k it became very clear very quickly that how yous fare in this system is totally luck of the draw and what catches the caseworkers attention and whether or not they re willing to work with you and what their biases art e, what they think about our religion. t well, josh , that was my next. point here. i mean, it seemsit s to me that it s pretty obvious that you were suspects because you re
temperature spiked to one hundred and three in the middle of the night. ght. ththat was terrifying for any parent of a newborn. new doctors ordered an x rayis to check for any sign of infection in his lungs. well, that x ray showed a weeksu old fracturere on ribcage, one that had already healed.docn doctors determineded t that it s from non accidental trauma. well trauma., sarah and her husd josh , were now suspected of child abusbusee. the massachusetts department of children and families got involved questioningthe tioningh the parents and their other son , three year old clarancthe now, just a few days later, at one o clock in the morning, josh and sarah heard a pounding at the door.e it was the police and dcfto tak demanding to take their kids away. e the so you guys showed up ate sand i one o clock on the saturday morning. and what is what is the current situation like? what are you like? are you do they have the proper forization to take our kids ? from whawhat it i understand,
months almost of the day, we we got full custody again. it was a fairly protracted wegal battles for months. and during those four months, we were visited twice a week by different social workers. and those visits were hard. they were hard on us.s were they were hard on our kids. clarance usually would wet himself after those visits, wouldn t have really spiked behavioral issues after those after his visiter thost. but we finally did get fullcust. custody. and i also mentioned we re four months. it was long and it was brutal for josh , how much does thisoso cost you guys?mu i mean, thisch is just a horrorb horror movie here. i mean, i can elt even believeis this is actually happening. g buapparently, it s not all thn uncommon.. josh , how muc h? it s very common.. we are at this point, a fifty thousand dollars in legal fees. there s, of course, other fees.and thexpenses on top of e have been very fortunate that,
that s karma to the case monday. well, dcf told these parents in the middle of the night on friday that they had to waito until monday to get any information about their children. i read this story and ii actually wanted to just throw up. it was m the most sickening sete of details. joinint g me now are those two parents, josh baby and sarah perkins. sarah , as a mom of three children, i m trying to put myself in your position . ist so heartwrenching. wrenching. the detail s of this. investigation but you say that during the investigation you weredl repeatedly asked aboutd about yr your religion and thewhen i washington post, which told your story and a lot of detail, which when i read this morning said that dcf intake reportha notice that you or noted that tr you frequently glance towardd your husband when being questioned. and then i guess they went on to theorize thaen being t this might be due to a possible power dynamic because of religion. reo