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Stories like this are so tough to process aren't they? They make you want to pick up a tree branch and beat someone over the head with it, but who? On the one hand the CFS workers could be said to be overstepping. The Hospital admin might be a pack of assholes, and the cops, especially the one who allegedly pushed the father, might be deserving of suspension and jail time.
But then again on the other hand when you read up on some of their hundreds of other cases where there actually IS abuse and/or neglect going on, and see how difficult it is to instantly know one way or another if a child is in danger, you start to realize that it's quite probable that most of these so-called "assholes" are simply erring on the side of caution. They likely dealt with an insane amount of asshole parents who think they have the right to do what they want with *their* kid and the cops etc can go fuck themselves. See a few of these types first-hand and it's no wonder the cop pushed the dad out of the way.
Orwellian, possibly. Looked at from a certain point of view most definitely. But when viewed from all sides is it really so clear cut as an article like this would have you believe?
Hopefully the courtroom is unbiased and gets to the bottom of it, and issues a severe bitch-slapping to anyone found to have truly overstepped.
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