The Enforcers

The truth in the DFS statement was that they would move quickly. Behind the Chaplins’ backs, they secured a court order allowing them to charge into the Chaplins’ home the next day and whisk Abbey back to Charter.

Their daughter now a ward of the state, Kitral and Butch had no say in her treatment. Abbey was put on a combination of two psychotropic drugs which another doctor told the Chaplins was extremely dangerous. Dr. Ann Tracy, one of the leading national authorities on psychotropic drugs, later confirmed that statement by informing the Chaplins the combination could be lethal.

After 12 days in Charter, Abbey was released — but not to her parents. She was sent to a foster home where it is likely she would have stayed indefinitely had a worker at the home not intervened, telling the DFS the only reason Abbey was depressed was because she needed to be home.

On April 26, 1999, the DFS’s charges against the Chaplins for medical neglect were dismissed and the agency was finally out of their lives.

Authorities who have reviewed the Chaplins’ case concur that there is no excuse for their ordeal. It was Kitral who brought her daughter to Charter in the first place, clearly a move made with the best interests of the child in mind. Further, as Kitral asked, “If a family can’t even take their child to a doctor for a second opinion, what has this country come to?”

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