Sarasota, Florida. If your child was forcefully taken away from you for reasons unknown, how would you react?
Imagine going to the hospital with your sick child only to have CPS come to take them away claiming that the child was not being looked after and looked malnourished?
Syesha Mercado, a former finalist on American Idol, and her partner Tyron Deneer have lost custody of their newborn daughter, five months after authorities took their son away.
Syesha is speaking out against the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office after they took her 10-day-old infant daughter in a video that she posted that has since gone viral.
Tyron shared an Instagram Live video of the August 11 incident with Manatee County sheriff’s deputies, which you can watch here, in which the authorities demanded that the couple hand over the newborn infant.
Authorities stopped Syesha and Tyron when they were driving with their newborn daughter.
The cops insisted on conducting a random welfare check on the side of the road. The couple is handed a court order to surrender their days-old baby for a hospital exam in the video of their meeting with Manatee County Sheriff’s officials.
GoFundMe; pictured above are Syesha, Tyron, and their son who was taken from them a few months ago, Amen’Ra
As shown in a distressing video that has received over 2 million views, the newborn was taken by the police and then to a local hospital to be examined.
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It seems that their daughter was taken because a few months ago, Syesha and Tyron’s 15-month-old son was also taken from them after they were accused of malnourishing him.
He also has not been returned to their care and is currently in the foster care system. On a GoFundMe page started by Syesha, she explained how her son was taken from her and Tyron.
“On March 11th, 2021 our son Amen’Ra was forcefully taken from us by CPS, who claim we refused a B12 shot that was a matter of life and death, which is an absolute lie,” she wrote.
“We never refused a B12 shot, and at no point was he on the verge of death. Our Sun was then placed with a foster family without interviewing qualified relatives or friends of our family for placement while they investigate.”
“He was later moved to another caretaker. At the time of being taken from us, he was 15 months old and I had recently discovered I was pregnant.”
“My milk supply got low, and I went to Johns Hopkins All Children’s hospital to get some help, but was forcibly left without my baby.”
Syesha continued to discuss what happened with her daughter, Ast.
“On August 1, I gave birth, at home, to our beautiful happy, and healthy baby girl,” Syesha said.
“She ushered in so much peace to our hearts. We named her Ast, which means “the gathering/ coming together…” On August 11, while we were on our way to the Sheriff’s office to do a wellness check, we were surrounded by flashing lights and armed officers, who unjustly took Ast from me on the side of the road, exposing her to all kinds of dangers, with all these strangers around her.”
“Now, I can’t bond with my babby girl and meditate with her on my chest, I can’t hold my newborn daughter whenever she cries, or give her the breast milk that my body has produced for her very existence.”
“My body feels when she is hungry, but I don’t get to experience the joy of feeding her. I’m missing the most tender moments of her life.”
“This is a nightmare and every second of every day until they Bring our Babies home.”
If you would like to donate to Syesha and Tyron’s GoFundMe to fight to get their children back, you can do that here.