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In the hourlong video, her partner Tyron Deener filmed the pair driving in Sarasota, Florida when the local sheriff’s department surrounded the family’s SUV to conduct a roadside welfare check. The police presented the couple with a court order of custody to take the infant to a hospital for a physical exam.
“Do you not feel anything? You guys, I’m human,” the Broadway alum tearfully asks the first responders on the scene. “This is my baby. My baby is days old — and you’re taking my baby away from me.”
Deener, 36, attempted to explain that the pair have been “compliant and following every law,” claiming that they took their daughter — who was born via home birth with the assistance of a midwife — to a doctor a day earlier.
“You are traumatizing my baby. How could you guys do this?” Mercado added in the clip. “… You have no heart. This is so wrong. I have the key to this city [which she was presented with after her Idol appearance in 2008] … I’ll hold it together. I’m strong.”
In late February, the pair’s son was taken away after allegations of malnutrition after the Sarasota, Florida native started to wean him off breast milk. Mercado’s milk supply started to dry up as she was pregnant, Fox 13 Tampa Bay reported in May. Her son had a hard time adjusting to formula and solid food.
“Our Sun was ‘Medically Kidnapped’ by CPS, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital and the Safe Children Coalition,” she later explained via a July Instagram post. “Our Trial Date isn’t until November. It’s been 118 days since they stole our Sun and forced us to leave him at the hospital by himself for weeks, then placed him in Foster Care with a white family, bypassing our over qualified relative, ripping Ra Ra apart from his culture, his loving home, and his entire WORLD.”
