The lawsuit is the latest development in Knox’s brief but calamitous tenure as the head of Alaska Cares, a state-supported clinic that handles reports of child abuse across the state.
, a Fairbanks-area military family who said Knox wrongly diagnosed their newborn daughter’s brain injury as abuse, leading them to lose custody for nearly a year.
Knox conducted “inappropriate, incomplete and deeply flawed” examinations of the two infants named in the case, and a review of the doctor’s work “determined that some of her child abuse diagnoses failed to meet the standard of care,” the complaint alleges.In a statement, Emily and Justin Acker said they were “deeply hurt” by their experience at Providence Hospital.
The Sitka family’s two children were out of their custody for more than five months, and both parents faced felony assault charges. Those criminal charges appear to have been dismissed or are otherwise not visible in state court records.
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