It is difficult to be able to express all that we are feeling in these moments, but I believe that it is most necessary to clarify certain points. Above all to the people that have known us for so many years and whose friendship is invaluable after everything that we are living…

The first thing that I would like to clarify is that we totally agree that nobody has the right to abuse any human being, especially a baby. We are parents and as parents we have tried to understand the parents of Noah since the very beginning. Since this happened we haven’t stopped praying in our family, asking for Noah’s improvement.

WHEN THERE IS PHYSICAL ABUSE, MARKS REMAIN. AND NOBODY DEMONSTRATED THAT BABY NOAH HAD THEM.

And, of course, among so much pain we were looking for the explanation of what really happened. With confidence and good faith we assumed that justice would seek for the truth and that all of this would be clarified during the trial. Thus, we looked for renowned specialists certain that they would put all of their knowledge in favor of science and truth.

Through the testimonies of all the specialists and paramedics that analyzed and saw Noah, they exposed a single truth: the baby did not present any bruise nor marks of any kind because nobody shook him…

Either with opened or closed doors when a person abuses someone else visible marks or other type of physical evidence from that violent act remain. Many friends of them comment that a child can not suddenly turn out into those conditions. Situations that we pray should never happen, but please look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qBR9I34do

There are so many things that we have discovered with this situation that we still find ourselves in shock. Justice and treatment given to their own citizens:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KyO55smJyQ

When someone has not had any type of legal experience, except for theory or general culture, we TRUST that justice will seek the TRUTH. It is impossible for me to understand given that I work for a government education agency that provides services to children with multiple diagnosis of disabilities and performing a work that demonstrates above all professionalism (maintaining documents and forms that serve to support our opinions on educational issues). I figured it would be a work even more delicate in the judicial system regarding the basic rights that entitled to each human being known through our constitution and international rights. We still can not understand how we have been so blind to what was happening in this country. Looking for a logical explanation I submerged myself to the Internet trying to find reasonable answers, because in this moment of our lives it is difficult to be able to trust again. It is difficult to understand that if someone is innocent they should have the means to be able to demonstrate it… What happened to the concept of someone being innocent until they were PROVED guilty? …or at least that they would grant the benefit of doubt, since when do you keep a person from their freedom without having any proof? Since when a social worker needs no record of the declaration of the witness in their native language and a translated statement of someone, read and signed by the same person being accused? Since when the opinions of recognized specialists are no longer taken into account? Then, what difference makes for professionals that choose to dedicate more years of their lives to investigation and study? Within the 12 members of the jury I observed one Latino, which seemed good to me because I thought he would recognize that the translation that the police official was performing in the audio presented was far from good. The official summarized the explanations that my sister was giving modifying and altering it in a wrong way, very different from the true meaning of what she was saying, and it seems that it didn’t make any difference that someone would understand Spanish within the jury. Is that what really happened with the social worker?
The same one who said that my sister had affirmed having ’shaken’ the baby, something that wasn’t true. She [my sister] took a doll that she had around and demonstrated the way she had rocked the child to console him from his crying …placing one hand behind between the neck and the back, and the other hand supporting the part of his buttocks. In this position it is so difficult that someone is going to be able to “shake” the child in a violent way because he would fall from someone’s hands before being able to do that.

Another thing that the social worker did, is to visit my sister during her first arrest presenting herself as her lawyer, so when my sister came by, this woman assuming the place of her lawyer appeared very arrogant continuing with her ’work’, this time asking her about her daughters and telling her that never more could she care for children, etc. etc. We never really understood the motivation for that visit until I found this information:

Social workers, do we have to believe them?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufne42PmnJY

And this informative page wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t so much outrage:
http://familyrights.us/how_to/if_cps_comes.html

How do they explain that there was a violent act without any external sign on Noah? Or at least the existence of some inflammation of the nerves that are connected to the brain with the spinal column. This made us ask ourselves about what was the medical history of the child. Did Noah show symptoms of anemia? What happens when a child has anemia? Does it affect something in the brain? I found this so that you can make your own conclusions:

Anemia in a child:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAP28K0PXN4

MRI brain with anemia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RU18RbA6-I

And also we should ask ourselves what other causes could exist so that a baby would arrive to these conditions.
Here I share with you more information:Children and infants are also susceptible to strokes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABuJa_i2t1s

I ask to myself if these people knew of the existences of the toxoplasmosis Does this family live with pets? Yes, two cats and a dog.

Toxoplasmosis (in Spanish):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UkiP87fvwQ

NY times article
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/30/health/30real.html?_r=1

We are very sorry for what Noah’s family has had to go through but the photos that are shown on the Website aren’t something that my sister has provoked. Those photos are the result of a professional incompetence. I ask myself if there are photos showing the baby’s bruises or physical signs of abuse. Up to the point where the facts were presented during the trial, there were many outrageous errors. First when my sister called 911 she reported that the baby was not breathing. Secondly, she started CPR and kept the baby breathing until the paramedics arrived. This information was sent to the paramedics so that they can anticipate what the medical procedures were about to be taken when they arrive. With only a little bit of knowledge someone could say that they omitted something so basic and vital as to immediately providing oxygen. They didn’t do it. (I assume that everyone knows the damage caused to the brain when it doesn’t receive enough oxygen for more than three minutes.) Through my niece that was present there at that moment, I know that the paramedics were around the baby “observing”. No oxygen was administered to him at that moment. They took him by ambulance to the hospital. How long did that take them? 15 minutes. In that lapse they administered two doses of valium – What else happened during that period of time? The photos that are seen on that Website are the result of that.
It is inadmissible that the prosecutor would affirm that Trudy could also have waited 15 – 20 minutes before calling 911…if she would have waited for that long of time the child wouldn’t be alive today.

From the beginning I tried to sympathize with Noah’s parents, but my perception of them especially of the father was changing. During the recesses in the trial he seemed like a person about to explode. We were all upset, but EACH HUMAN BEING GIVES WHAT THEY HAVE INSIDE. I don’t know if he thought that we didn’t understand English or what was his intention, but he was passing by our side appearing to walk around with one of his relatives while making comments at us. What I am saying is, Is that what a honest person does? The wife writes giving recommendations to our family, what makes her think that she is better than us? What gives her the certainty to accuse my sister of having shaken her son behind a closed door? And how does she explain that there isn’t any sign of external or internal trauma present? I believe that she could go through the bother of giving a more complete and coherent explanation, I agree with all of the recommendations posted on their Website about not ‘shaking’ a child. It is correct, no one should ever violently shake a child, but in this particular case with Trudy I tell you that this is not what has happened. There is much evidence that proves the contrary…

I ask myself what would have happened if all of this would have happened after one hour when the mother was arriving to pick him up, Maybe this: Parents accused of SBS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKh98s1tQsU

And they would have been in the same circumstances that these parents are in the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FHYIOafbzM

Check out one of the comments about how much money each county receives per child that is taken away from their family. And if one still doubts how justice is served here, you can visit one of the comments mentioning the payments received for each child.

All I have left to ask live is to give to each person and their loved ones all what they are asking for my sister Trudy, to whom I will continue supporting …. BECAUSE SHE IS INNOCENT.

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