Imagine This: Sitting in Jail After Saving Your Child’s Life
You’re a father. One day your newborn son—just 10 weeks old—suddenly stops breathing in your arms. You don’t panic. You act. You perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save him. You get him to urgent care, and a physician examines your baby at 11:19 AM trying to understand why the child stopped breathing. The doctor finds no distress, no bruising, no lacerations, no broken bones, no lung injuries, no pain, no pain medications, and no injuries and most important, no signs of abuse.
But suddenly the child stops breathing again and the doctor rushes your child to the ER to help him breathe.
And then, your world is turned upside down.
Your child is rushed to the ER in respiratory distress due to a diagnosed prior respiratory infection. Doctors quickly attempt to intubate him—but the first attempt fails. The tube is misplaced, and during the process, it punctures his lung. The medical team scrambles as the situation escalates.
What was supposed to be a routine procedure turns into a prolonged crisis. Multiple doctors rotate in. A second attempt fails. Then a third, fourth, fifth—up to ten separate intubation attempts before your child is stabilized.
Amid the chaos, your child’s heart stops. CPR is required. After nearly three hours of continuous resuscitation, your baby is finally stabilized—but now he’s critically injured. He has to be airlifted to the trauma center but not because he stopped breathing at home—he’s flown out because of the severe trauma caused by repeated, botched intubation attempts and the trauma of the CPR.
The scene now shifts and you find yourself inside the trauma unit, doctors begin trying to make sense of what happened to your child. Scans are ordered. The results are shocking: both arms broken, multiple leg fractures, and a punctured lung. You're stunned—but you stay calm and explain everything you know.
You recount how your baby stopped breathing at home, how you gave mouth-to-mouth, and how the ER team performed CPR that seemed… unusually forceful. You share every detail, hoping for clarity.
But then, the air in the room shifts.
Your story is quietly brushed aside. No one follows up. No one asks about the ER procedures. The ten failed intubation attempts—now documented in the records—go unmentioned. The chaos of that emergency room is erased with silence.
Then, something even more shocking happens.
To deflect suspicion from herself, your spouse—without warning—suddenly implies you may have a history of child abuse from a prior relationship. In an instant, the tone changes. The doctors stop investigating. The focus narrows. Suspicion replaces inquiry.
And just like that, the effort to search for medical explanations halts. No one pulls the ER records. No one questions the timeline. The clinical urgency vanishes, replaced by quiet judgment.
Moments later, Child Protective Services is called.
What began as a desperate attempt to save your child has now become a criminal investigation—with you at the center. The evidence in your favor is ignored. And the people you trusted most now look at you differently.
Without warning—and without any clear medical explanation—you become the primary suspect. The trauma caused during emergency treatment is ignored. Instead, blame shifts to you.
Within days, despite the evidence, despite your efforts to save your child, you’re accused of abuse. Your baby is now in the ICU—sedated on narcotics, with a punctured lung, multiple broken bones, and a criminal charge filed against you.
You didn’t harm your child—you saved his life. But now, you’re behind bars, facing years in prison, while the system turns a blind eye to the medical records, the clear timeline, and every logical explanation that proves your innocence.
Meanwhile, the police report paints a shocking picture—listing broken arms, broken legs, and a punctured lung. The story spreads quickly. News outlets run with the narrative. Headlines suggest you beat your child with a weapon. The public rushes to judgment. And before you’ve even stepped into a courtroom, you’ve already been convicted in the media—despite compelling medical evidence that tells a very different story.
What the public doesn’t hear—what the headlines never mention—is that your baby had been seen by pediatricians four separate times in just ten weeks: at 4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, and 10 weeks old. Each time, your child was thoroughly examined by medical professionals. The findings were consistent and crystal clear: no injuries, no bruises, no swelling, no broken bones, no discomfort, and absolutely no signs of abuse. Your baby was growing, developing, and thriving.
Even on October 29th, just two weeks before the emergency, your child was brought to urgent care for a mild respiratory concern. He was examined again—and once again found to be completely healthy. No trauma. No distress. No indication that anything was wrong.
But everything changed after that ER visit.
When your baby stopped breathing again, you did what any parent would do—you got him help. That’s when the ER staff attempted to intubate him to restore his airway. What should have been a straightforward medical procedure quickly spiraled into chaos. The medical team failed to place the breathing tube correctly—not once, but ten times. During those failed attempts, the tube was misplaced, puncturing your child’s right lung, and forcing emergency CPR when his heart stopped. The entire ordeal lasted nearly three hours.
The hospital’s own records confirm what happened. In black and white, they admit:
“The ETT (endotracheal tube) punctured the right lung and was dislodged during taping.” Yet despite that admission, you’re the one being held responsible. Not the hospital. Not the medical team. You. You are accused of causing the very injuries that did not exist before the ER intervention. Injuries that were never present at any point in your child’s documented medical history. Injuries that only appeared after the hospital mishandled the procedure that was supposed to save your baby’s life.
And now—because no one wants to admit what happened in that ER—you are being treated like a criminal. The facts are ignored. The timeline is disregarded. And the people entrusted with protecting lives and seeking truth have decided it’s easier to blame the parent than to confront the system that failed.
🧠 Now think about it—really think about it.
The police report claims your baby suffered two fractured arms, seven fractures in the legs, and a punctured lung. These are not subtle injuries. These are traumatic, painful, unmistakable. And yet—not one doctor noticed them during any of the four pediatric wellness visits? Not the urgent care doctor who saw the baby two weeks prior? Not even the physician who examined your child just one hour before the ER trauma began?
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Not the child’s mother.
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Not the grandparents who saw him daily.
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Not a single trained medical professional.
Does that make any sense?
Could you really have inflicted that level of damage on your child without anyone—not even those closest to him—seeing a single sign of pain, swelling, bruising, or distress?
Of course not. Because the facts tell a different story. A clearer one. One grounded in medical records, documented timelines, and logic.
And it’s that truth—the truth hidden beneath the silence, the shame, and the system’s refusal to admit fault—that you are now committed to uncovering. You will not stop until it is brought to light. Not until every detail is confronted. Not until every mistake is acknowledged. And not until those responsible are held to account—not just for the harm done to your child, but for the injustice inflicted on you.
Because nothing short of a full admission of what happened in that ER—the failed procedures, the overlooked records, the reckless assumptions—will ever satisfy you.
You are not seeking sympathy. You are demanding truth. And the truth is on your side.
🕳 The Timeline That Breaks the Case
There’s one thing missing from the entire case against you: a timeline. Not just a date range—any specific moment when the alleged injuries were supposed to have occurred. And that’s not an oversight. That’s a tactic.
Because if the prosecution were to provide a date—just one specific window when this alleged abuse was said to have taken place—it would immediately expose the impossibility of their theory.
The reason is simple: your child was examined multiple times in the weeks leading up to the incident, including a documented physical exam at urgent care on the very same day—November 12, 2023, at 11:19 AM. That exam, conducted by a licensed physician, recorded no trauma, no bruising, no fractures, and no signs of distress.
If the injuries had already existed, they would have been visible—and they weren't. If the injuries occurred afterward, it was during a period in which your child was exclusively in the custody of licensed medical professionals.
That’s why there’s no timeline. Because once the documented wellness visits and urgent care records are lined up—4 weeks, 6 weeks, 8 weeks, 10 weeks, and finally November 12—the truth becomes inescapable:
The injuries weren’t there before the ER. They happened after.
And that fact alone undermines the entire case.
So instead of offering a date, the case stalls. The process drags on. Time becomes a weapon. You remain in jail while the details that would exonerate you remain buried in silence.
This isn’t justice—it’s avoidance. And it speaks louder than any accusation ever could.
You’re sitting in a jail cell, accused of a crime you didn’t commit. Your child was injured — not by you, but during a botched medical procedure that’s clearly documented in the records. You know you're innocent. The truth is there, in black and white. So you do what anyone would do — you hire a lawyer.
The first attorney costs you $10,000. Six months go by. Nothing happens. No motions. No investigation. No defense.
So your family scrapes together another $35,000 to hire someone else. Surely this will fix it.
It doesn’t.
Twenty-two months later — nearly two years behind bars — here’s what you have to show for it: No timeline from the District Attorney. No theory of how or when the injuries occurred. No forensic evidence. No medical expert brought in to testify, even though one offered to help. No deposition of the child’s mother, who’s now a cooperating witness. No subpoenas for the child’s wellness visit records that could clear your name. Not even a basic writ of habeas corpus — the most fundamental tool for challenging illegal imprisonment.
You’re not being defended. You’re being delayed. Stalled. Silenced.
And every day that passes, the truth gets buried deeper.
You didn’t harm your child. But no one is fighting like it matters.
This isn’t justice. This is a system failure. And it could happen to you.
⚖️ You’re locked away, and the Constitution is no longer protecting you.
You’ve sat in jail for over a year—no trial, no timeline, no chance to face the person accusing you. Your Sixth Amendment rights have been trampled: no speedy trial, no effective legal help, no opportunity to confront your accuser. Your Fourteenth Amendment guarantee of due process? Ignored entirely.
You beg your attorney to fight back. To file a writ of habeas corpus. To challenge what’s clearly an unconstitutional detention. But they refuse. They tell you it “isn’t allowed.”
They’re wrong.
Under North Carolina law—N.C. Gen. Stat. § 17-1—any person held unlawfully has the right to challenge their confinement. It’s not optional. It’s a constitutional safeguard.
But in your case? Silence. Delay. And continued injustice.
Now step back for a moment.
What you’ve been reading—those scenes of sitting in a jail cell, your rights violated, your child taken from you, and no one listening—isn’t just a hypothetical.
It actually happened.
A young man named Michael Hassen was jailed in November 2023, accused of something he didn’t do. He’s been behind bars ever since. The timeline doesn’t support the allegations. The medical records tell a different story. And yet, the justice system has turned a blind eye—ignoring facts, withholding due process, and prolonging his suffering.
Michael’s not just a name. He’s a father. He’s a son. And what’s happening to him could happen to anyone. It could be your brother. Your son. Your friend. Or you.
That’s why we need your voice.
This is not a case about child abuse—it’s about medical negligence, ignored evidence, and a system that would rather punish an innocent man than admit it got it wrong.
We’re preparing to take this to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, but doing so requires legal filings, medical experts, outreach, and continued advocacy. We need the community—you—to help break the silence.
Raise awareness. Share Michael’s story. Help us bring this injustice to light.
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