State seizes child from mother over diaper rash as medical kidnapping accelerates

‘It’s always heartbreaking to hear of a young child who is battling cancer, but in the case of three-year-old Weston Lamarre, it’s a particularly tragic story because he has been separated from his mother, Wendy, after the occurrence of what some are calling a “medical kidnapping.”

Wendy Lamarre has not been charged with any mistreatment of her child, and although her regular doctors and others are sure she is not a threat to her son — who is now recovering from treatment for a brain tumor — Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) authorities are keeping her son in custody and reportedly allowing the mother to see her son only a few hours per week.’

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