Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for District 138, Lacey Hull, celebrates Senate Bill 1578 which passed in 2021 to protect people like...
Texas lawmakers meet with Robert Roberson III at a prison in Livingston. Unlike with SB 1578 which provides for a second opinion in cases of alleged child abuse investigated by CPS, no law yet exists to provide for a second opinion by a medical examiner in a case of suspected death by child abuse, writes Texas state Rep. Lacey Hull.On Nov. 21, a Dallas man was exonerated — in Michigan.
Notably, this Republican-sponsored bill passed both chambers of the Texas Legislature without any dissenting votes. We lawmakers recognized that protecting children is one of our most important mandates but involves a more complex approach to public policy than a rush to presume that injured or ill children must have been abused by those who bring them to hospitals seeking treatment. Child abuse is undeniably horrific, but so is mistakenly destroying families.
So instead of getting to the bottom of Nikki’s complex medical problems, the district attorney has preferred to cling to a conviction based on unsound science; and our courts have so far refused to even consider the new medical evidence showing what actually caused his daughter to collapse. In my view, most Texans cherish the fundamental right to due process before someone is deprived by the government of their liberty — let alone their life.
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