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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.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 34 points 9 months ago (4 children)

"My six-year-old needs to be protected from a deadly disease but I don't trust vaccines. I know! I'll call a midwife!"

She is awful and deserves prison time, not just a fine, but the parents are also fucking stupid.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The importantance of vaccines are "I need to do my part to protect OTHER kids AND adults from deadly disease"

That's the biggest part of this problem though, it's not "my six year old" on the table here - it's everyone's six year old. I have a responsibility to understand that.

If we can't understand the above, then we don't live in a functioning society.

[–] lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

Unfortunately at this point we actually don't live in a functioning society.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

we don’t live in a functioning society.

beginning to suspect this is right.... still wearing my mask in crowded spaces, still watching 1000s die weekly from covid, no one seems to fucking care.... 1712 died last week.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00

[–] THE_ANON@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago

Yeah she should get prison and they should follow up with the kids who is unvaccinated because of her and see if they are suffering from anything due to lack of vaccine and increase the time.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I suspect that she selected her midwifery clients based on their views about vaccines.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I wouldn't be surprised if her patient's parents knew she was pencil whipping these vaccinations, otherwise she'd be in jail or being sued by the families.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if the parents knew what was going on then they should lose custody

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Authorities never looked into whether or not the parents/guardians were aware of it, so they get off scott free here.

Erin Clary, a health department spokesperson, said Thursday that while parents and legal guardians had sought out and paid Breen for her services, they weren’t the focus of the agency’s investigation.