Dad in RI complains about pediatrician’s forceful COVID jab on daughters.
Family’s Pediatrician Accused of Using “Thuggish Force” to Administer Covid Shots to Young Daughters
A Rhode Island resident named Joshua Nagel has filed a complaint with the state health department alleging that his family’s pediatrician used “thuggish force” when administering Covid shots to his young daughters. The Nagel girls were jabbed against their father’s wishes after the Rhode Island Supreme Court effectively sided with the girls’ mother.
As previously reported by The Federalist, Joshua and his then-wife Lauren Nagel were granted a divorce by a final decree in September 2020. As part of the couple’s divorce agreement, both Lauren and Joshua would share in all major decisions affecting their children’s health — including elective medical choices. While Lauren wanted to give their children the experimental jab, Joshua did not, leading her to seek an order from a trial court last year that would grant her unilateral authority to give their daughters the shot based upon their pediatrician’s advice, which was to vaccinate.
While the trial court found Joshua’s refusal to consent to give the girls the Covid shot was not “objectively unreasonable,” it nonetheless overrode the divorce agreement in January, deciding it would be within the “best interests” of the Nagel girls to receive the jab. After rejecting an amicus brief from dozens of medical professionals who argued the “potential benefits of vaccinating [the Nagel girls] are far outweighed by the certain risks of harm to them,” the Rhode Island Supreme Court affirmed the trial court’s decision on May 5.
In his complaint filed with the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH), Joshua is claiming that Dr. Colleen Powers and her assistant “forcibly restrained” his 5- and 8-year-old daughters during a May 9 appointment to receive the Covid shot, while both children were “pleading & screaming not to receive the injections.”
“Despite my 8-year-old’s plaintive appeal for an additional few minutes to get herself together, she was given no respite, and forcibly injected while sitting on the floor, screaming loudly, as Dr. Powers & her assistant restrained her,” the complaint alleges. “My 5-year-old, who hid under an examination table to avoid being injected, was extracted by force, and then restrained, again by both Dr. Powers and her assistant, & forcibly injected while the child screamed and yelled in protest.”
In an audio recording of the appointment, which can be found below, both girls are heard repeatedly saying they don’t want to receive the injection and crying in protest. It also appears to show Lauren and Powers attempting to coax the girls into getting the shot.
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