Douglas Kennedy and his wife Molly with their son Boru.
Posted on 02/26/2012 8:15:45 AM PST by Zakeet
Douglas Kennedy and his wife Molly with their son Boru.
The petite, Brooklyn-born nurse who tussled with Robert F. Kennedy’s son in a hospital maternity ward was stunned that she fought with a member of Camelot, her husband said Saturday.
Steve Luciano, 57, said his 5-foot-tall wife, Cari, was just doing her job when she tried to stop Douglas Kennedy from leaving the hospital with his 2-day-old baby boy.
“Her comment to me that night was, ‘I was assaulted tonight and could you believe it, it was a Kennedy who did it?’” Luciano told the Daily News on Saturday in front of his Hopewell Junction home.
He said his wife and nurse Anna Lane were simply trying to stop Kennedy, 44, from leaving the Northern Westchester Hospital with the baby, Boru, on Jan. 7 against hospital rules.
Steve Luciano said Kennedy kicked his wife in the pelvis and twisted Lane’s arm. The scuffle was caught on security camera.
“My wife was assisting Anna to simply encourage Mr. Kennedy to place the child back into its bassinet,” Luciano said. “It appears on camera that they stumbled into the stairwell and then he veered back and kicked Cari and she went sprawling to the floor.”
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Luciano said ... “I don’t think that anybody, even a Kennedy, should go around kicking hospital personnel and believe there are no ramifications,” he said, adding that a civil suit was a possibility.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
You stupid Freepers are just jealous because my bootlegger great granddaddy stole enough from others to give my worthless relatives and me entitlement, privilege and political power for generations.
Aunt Boru? Nahhh.....
Isn’t/wasn’t he a Fox news reporter/contributor?
Say what you want but when the bitch at the hospital where my daughter (now 22) was born stood there and declared that our baby could not leave that domain without having a social security number I was a bit taken aback. They otta thank the God they don’t believe in that it wasn’t today. I’d have dismantled the place brick by brick.
Boru Kennedy. I’m bored already.
Oh yeah.
Boru ?
Stupid FReepers indeed. A father stands up for his daughter but you buy the headlines hook-line-and-sinker.
Mmmmm. The wife looks a bit long in the tooth to be having a baby.
Cops arrested Kennedy on Thursday. He was charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child.
I guess the cops in Mt Kisco are stupid too by your estimation. Did you even bother to read the article at the source?
Oh heck - I didn’t notice your thread - with a different headline. Too busy checking for this news item after hearing a snip on CNN.
This happened on January 7th. If it had been anyone other than a Kennedy - it would have had Caley Anthony status.
Ask Mary Jo and a few others if they believe.
“Ask Mary Jo and a few others if they believe.”
Well said...more than a ‘few’.
“Ask Mary Jo and a few others if they believe.”
Well said...more than a ‘few’.
The question is—and no I have not read the article—is: Did the nurse know the guy was the father of the child?
If she did KNOW he was the father then the course of action on the hospital’s part was likely inappropriate. I say “likely” as the father and mother may be estranged and the father was attempting to remove the baby without the mother’s permission.
If she did NOT know Kennedy was the father, her attempting to stop and verify was clearly the right thing to do.
In any case, the nurse needed to verify what was happening and who was involved before the baby left the ward.
In any case, Kennedy reacted stupidly and with arrogance.
“unless they can show the child’s life was in danger leaving”
See Post 19.
Not just endangering the child, but also may be abducting the child.
the other article said the kids name was “Bo”. Like Obamas dog...
Seems reasonable, but the first time I’ve seen it.
Think Brian Boru and the battle of Clantorf, 10th century.
Whence O’Brian.
Possibly at that time, Boru was just another first name, or parents’ first name. Think it was a bit early for last names.
Or, BO - like Barack Obama. I thought it was more narcissism from Obama when he named the dog with his initials.
Is this Kennedy a lefty and Obama lover?
The rule is, don't allow someone to kidnap a baby. To ensure that this rule is not violated, people aren't allowed to pick up babies and just leave.
I trust you'd have been "Mr. Complicity" in such a circumstance. And that's where their power derives from.
Brian Boru was a High King in Ireland.
I think that, even this case notwithstanding, that would be a fair guess.
Did you even bother to read the article at the source?
No. I live a real life, and my "estimations" are based upon real experiences.
Sounds like there was much more going on there than mere hospital rules.
All social institutions are tools of the government.
Do the math.
You might want to frame this post.
Watch what you say Mr. Hand. It is the Lord’s day after all.
I’m 100% with this father... He has a witness who works for the hospital that stated the nurse was the aggressor. She should feel blessed she was physically able to speak to her husband after the incident.
As much as I despise the Kennedy’s, whose kid is it anyways? Not allowed to take ones own child out of maternity ward? What law did he break?
“whose kid is it anyways?”
Maybe that was the question. Hospitals don’t like people taking babies out of hospitals until all the paperwork has been done. Something about kidnapping being bad.
If the picture didn’t say that woman was the mother i would swear she was granny.
Possibly at that time, Boru was just another first name, or parents’ first name. Think it was a bit early for last names.
High King Brian's *last* name was, after ancient Irich custom, Mac Cennedi, or "son of Cennedi (which would interestingly enough, be rendered today as "Kennedy"). The "Boru" in the name was actually an appelation which was given to him by the people at large for his ability to defeat his enemies and means "of the tributes"...
the infowarrior
Clontarf was in 1014. According to Wikipedia, Brian Boru’s father’s name was Cennetig, which I assume is the medieval Gaelic form of “Kennedy.” The O’Briens take their name from Brian Boru.
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I can’t believe it took 20 posts for somebody to mention “abduction.” Can you imagine how this Son of a Kennedy would be acting of some other chap were walking out with Kennedy’s 2-day-old baby and the hospital did nothing to stop him?
Stupidly and with arrogance?
No, he reacted criminally. Thanks to flunkies and apologists, it comes out as stupidly and with arrogance.
Camelot? Try boozalot.
Cari, Cari! Don’t ever get in a car with a Kennedy. Or let one pick up a golf club. Or go into the stairwell with one. Or be a waitress when one is a customer. Or walk down the street at 3:00 a.m. with one driving in the neighborhood. Have I covered it all?
Whether it is a case of kidnapping is entirely determined by legal custody. The trial would go something like this:
KENNEDY LAWYER: "To whom does the responsibility of payment for services rendered ultimately fall?"
HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR#1: "The recipient."
KENNEDY LAWYER: "And if the recipient is a small child?"
HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR#1: "Then it would become the responsibility of the child's legal custodian."
KENNEDY LAWYER: "Thank you. Next witness, Your Honor."
[INTERLUDE]
KENNEDY LAWYER: "If Mr. Kennedy's insurer were to deny a part or all of the claim on his child's medical services, to whom would send the remainder of the bill?"
HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR#2: "Mr. Kennedy himself."
KENNEDY LAWYER: "Thank you. No more questions. Your Honor, I suggest that the case against my client be dismissed now so that we can expedite the attempted kidnapping case against the Hospital."
The Hospital's policy is squat in a court of law.
He works at Fox News.
So you are OK with people walking out of hospitals with infants and children, as long as they say, “yep, this one’s mine.”
I presume that is OK for schools as well then?
“Say, those two cute ones over there are mine. I’ll take them to go.”
The obvious point that you circumvented is immediate custody. You don’t exchange it without proof.
I had a duplicate thread which included several sober statements on hospital protocol related to patient safety - especially as it relates to potential newborn abductions by strangers. The hospital is held responsible for patient safety until formally discharged.
It has happened and hospitals are not only correct in having security in place to prevent it - but there is also the tragedy for parents and liability for the hospitals to consider.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2851566/posts
Hospitals have policies to protect the charges in their care and the parents who entrusted their children to the hospitals.
A father kicks one pediatric nurse and twists the arm of another and some of you think that, somehow, Kennedy was in the right.
The nurses were protecting Kennedy’s infant. He, on the other hand, was bahaving as the elitist he is.
Hospitals have policies to protect the charges in their care and the parents who entrusted their children to the hospitals.
A father kicks one pediatric nurse and twists the arm of another and some of you think that, somehow, Kennedy was in the right.
The nurses were protecting Kennedy’s infant. He, on the other hand, was behaving as the elitist he is.
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