A National Tragedy

Though she lives over 1,000 miles away from the Chaplins, Angela Castillo has asked the same question. Her story began when her 7-year-old son began to defend himself against the teasing and taunting of other children in school. When he began fighting back, school counselors insisted he take a psychotropic drug.

Shortly after starting the drug, Anthony began complaining that he felt ill. That soon became an obvious understatement with the appearance of such symptoms as dizziness, falling asleep in class, bouts of vomiting and an increasingly yellow hue to his skin.

Angela took him to two medical doctors. Both told her to take the boy off the drug, which she did out of concern for her son’s health. Even so, the school therapist insisted Anthony continue the drug. Angela refused.

Two days later, on December 11, 1997, two policemen and two social workers showed up at Angela Castillo’s door and took all four of her children away, the youngest being only five months old. The police, said Angela, “said it was for ‘neglecting to give a prescription order to my son.’”

A lengthy fight ensued for more than a year to regain custody of her children.

Freedom learned of dozens of similar cases during its investigation.

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