Thread: 14-Year-Old Given HPV Vaccine Without Permission

Mother ‘Angry With Everybody’ After 14-Year-Old Given HPV Vaccine Without Permission

• Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:05am by Liz Klimas
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Like many parents, Sighle Kinney expected the nurse at her 14-year-old daughter’s school to take care of her if she scraped her knee, provide her with pain reliever if she had an unbearable headache and let her lie down for a spell if she wasn’t feeling well. What Kinney didn‘t expect was to see a rash on her daughter’s arm and find it out that it was a reaction to a vaccine that she hadn’t approved.
The Detroit mother whose daughter attends Marcus Garvey Academy told the local ABC affiliate that she is “angry with everybody” over the fact that her daughter received four vaccinations, one of which was for HPV, without permission.
Here’s how it went down according to WXYZ:

The daughter says she was called out of class by the school nurse back on January 30th and sent to the school’s clinic, which is operated by St. John’s medical.
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Sighle was furious. She says she never gave consent for the shots to the school or St. John’s – Sighle says she even signed a document indicating never to administer medical treatment to her daughter.
“I told them – if she falls, give her a Band Aid, or if she has a headache, give her an aspirin – that’s it,” she says”

Watch the local news report:
Shortly after receiving the vaccines, Kinney says her daughter developed a rash on her body. The Detroit Public School System released a statement that said “staff at the clinic must maintain confidentiality with the students” and that Kinney should “take her very serious concerns to St. John’s.” WXYZ reports that St. John’s statement only read they were aware of the situation and would be meeting with the family involved.

Detroit Teen Given HPV Vaccine Without Parent Permission | Video | TheBlaze.com

I smell a lawsuit coming on....