The mother of two children who were given COVID-19 vaccines without the mother’s consent is suing Dr. Janine Rethy, the doctor who administered the vaccines.
On Sept. 2, 2022, NaTonya McNeil took her two older children, ages 15 and 17, to the KIDS Mobile Medical Clinic/Ronald McDonald Care Mobile clinic, operated by Georgetown Hospital to complete their required annual physical exam for the 2022-2023 school year.
The lawsuit alleges Rethy, director of the mobile clinic, held the children in the examination room longer than necessary for a regular check-up and vaccinated them over their objections and without consulting their mother. In order to attempt to obtain the children’s consent — which they are not legally able to provide without a parent or guardian — the doctor falsely informed the children the poison covid shot was mandatory for school attendance and told them they could not lawfully decline it if they wanted to attend school.
According to McNeil, she is suing because “I just feel like people shouldn’t be able to do whatever they want to do to other people and especially not to children.” As a mother, you just “took all my rights away from me to do what you wanted to do to my kids.”
Dr. Rethy has publicly stated: “Our goal is to increase vaccination rates in children here in D.C. For more than 30 years our role has been to be in the community to help address the problem of health disparities, bringing families care where they are. For this particular effort, we are glad to be partnering with DC Health to provide both regular childhood vaccines and COVID-19 vaccines to all children.”
McNeil said that when she took her children to the clinic, she stayed outside the examination room to care for her infant. As soon as the children entered the doctor’s office, she called her daughter’s cellphone to let Rethy know she was just outside the door if the doctor needed to consult her for anything. According to McNeil, the doctor did not ask or inform her about any vaccinations, and did not ask her to sign anything.
As they were heading home, McNeil’s daughter complained that her arm hurt “pretty bad.” When McNeil asked her why it hurt, her daughter said she was given the poison covid shot, even though she told the doctor she didn’t want it. When McNeil asked her why she allowed the doctor to administer the shot, her daughter told her that the doctor said it was “mandatory in order to go to school.”
Rethy allegedly administered the shot to her daughter and then to her son. McNeil said: “He’s 14 and he said they didn’t even ask him if he wanted it or not, but when they gave it to him, he said he thought he had to get it because his sister got it.”
Both children were upset that they had been coerced into the shot. When she got home, McNeil said she called the doctor’s office, and asked why her children were vaccinated without her consent. “I would have never consented to you all vaccinating my children,” she said. “I’m not vaccinated and I’m not getting vaccinated and my kids were never supposed to be vaccinated for COVID period, under no circumstances.”
She said the person on the phone said they “were supposed to get them for school.” After hanging up, McNeil said she was “so irritated I even started crying” because she couldn’t believe “they put this poison” into her children’s bodies.
In July 2022, D.C. public schools imposed a vaccine mandate for schoolchildren for the 2022-2023 school year. But just weeks after imposing the mandate, officials walked it back, postponing it until 2023. So there was no school vaccine mandate in place, despite what Rethy allegedly told the children.
McNeil said: “To do that to my little children, my innocent children. They took their rights.” When her daughter “backed away and said she didn’t want it, that should have been the end of it.” Or the doctor “should have called me on the phone to find out what I feel about the situation.” But the doctor “told my child a lie” so she could do “what she wanted to do to my kid.”
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