When Josh Sabey and Sarah Perkins took their sick 3-month-old to the emergency room, they had no idea that just two days later, the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) would seize both their children from their home in the middle of the night, without a judge's approval. Why? During a routine X-ray, doctors found a small fracture on the baby's ribcage, an injury social workers claimed could only be the result of child abuse.
Sabey and Perkins live outside Boston, Massachusetts, with their two sons, 3-year-old Clarence and 3-month-old Cal. As Perkins later wrote, they're a typical family of four who enjoy taking their children to the library and the local park.
