A New York midwife who gave nearly 1,500 children homeopathic pellets instead of required vaccinations has been fined $300,000, the state’s health department announced this week.
Jeanette Breen, who operates Baldwin Midwifery on Long Island, administered the pellets as an alternative to vaccinations and then falsified their immunization records, the agency said Wednesday.
The scheme, which goes back least to the 2019-2020 school year, involved families throughout the state, but the majority reside on suburban Long Island. In 2019, New York ended a religious exemption to vaccine requirements for schoolchildren.
The health department said immunization records of the children who received the falsified records have been voided, and their families must now prove the students are up-to-date with their required shots or at least in the process of getting them before they can return to school.
Child Endangerment is also a crime
Why is she not in prison for life?
Just put a lemon on it
And jailtime? She actively and knowingly risked the lives of children FFS, not only the ones she gave crap, but also the ones around them.
She should be jailed for a long time
That should be 300k per kid.
She paid $150k and promised not to deal with medication anymore.
Isn’t that a crime?
Edit:
while parents and legal guardians had sought out and paid Breen for her services, they weren’t the focus of the agency’s investigation.
Ok, that’s slightly different. I thought she was giving children fake vaccines without their knowledge. Still incredibly shitty, and it isn’t clear but it sounds like she’s still allowed to practice as a midwife, just not vaccinate people.
Endangering childrens’ lives? Yes, I think…
I think it only counts if it happens before they are born /s
Were the kids in any more danger than before they had the vaccine? I don’t think so. Obviously they’re in more danger than if they’d got the vaccine, and they were required to get the vaccines to attend schools, but that’s slightly different. I guess you could argue that the non-vaccinated children were endangering the lives of other children in the school, but really the biggest danger is to the non-vaccinated child.
If there was no deception to the parents, then the biggest crime is falsifying records, which is what she was convicted of.
My bigger issue is that she is still allowed to practice midwifery/nursing, it seems, and her restrictions only prohibit her from administering vaccines (which she wasn’t doing) or accessing the vaccine record database. She might be an old hag at the tail end of her career, but the fact that she managed to pay $150,000 suggests that she doesn’t desperately need to continue working, and given her offense she shouldn’t.
Yes they were.
Before they make have taken more precautions, afterwards they may have reduced them due to believing to be vaccinated.
Before they make have taken more precautions
I think the kind of people who would take homeopathic “vaccines” aren’t the kind of people who would have taken precautions anyway, not unless forced to. You could maybe argue that they were endangering children by sending them to school, but really the danger would have been with the non-vaccinated child.
The only really significant new risk would be if a non-vaccinated homeopathic child was around a child who legitimately could not be vaccinated, but that’s dependent on specific circumstances.
Wow, she avoided jail time!
Didn’t even lose her license from what it reads like. That’s crazy. These kinds of people are dangerous.
Homeopathy should be outlawed.
There is placebo effect as well, so it might somehow help. But not the way they think and it shouldn’t be a substitute for proper medicine.
Placebo is a real peer-reviewed thing and a powerful tool in the right hands. But it has to be authorized and prescribed by a real doctor who knows what they’re doing…
Not for babies, it won’t
It could to some degree through parents, but most probably not, indeed.
Actually, it does. A friend of mine uses homeopathic anal suppositories for his almost 1 y/o and it almost always calms her down.
Guess having stuff shoved up your butt doesn’t need natural language to be understood lol.
That’s child abuse. But it’s also an example of how strong beliefs in homeopathy can arise. With fluctuating conditions, people often seek a solution when symptoms (or the child’s cries) are at their worst. When they get better soon after, it creates an illusion of effectiveness.
A similar illusion is at work with the MMR vaccine. Autism becomes diagnosable at around the same age as the first shot is given, creating a powerful impression that the two events are connected.
It’s why we have randomised controlled trials. With no control arm for comparison, your friend has concluded that abusing their child is somehow useful.
If any of these kids die[d] of Covid, she should be held liable.
I think you misread what’s happening. The parents actively sought her out for this service and Covid wasn’t part of the “immunization” scheme she offered.
