Child taken away after doctors fail to spot her broken arm

Kimberley Millard’s daughter, Faye-Louise, was taken from her just before Mother’s Day after medics said an arm injury she suffered wasn’t consistent with a fall from a sofa. It had in fact been misdiagnosed as a pulled muscle.

The 30-year-old and her partner Scott Jackson watched helplessly as their two children as they were whisked away and put into the care of their grandparents.

The child then endured four days with an untreated fractured arm until an X-ray revealed she had two hairline fractures which were, indeed, consistent with the fall, as her mother had originally said.

Miss Millard of Featherstone was then reunited with her daughter and five-year-old son Callum.

She said: “It’s been a like a nightmare and we have been waiting to wake up from it.

“It didn’t feel real. Everything that’s happened has been for the wrong reasons.

“They took our children away when they shouldn’t have done – if they had diagnosed her properly this wouldn’t have happened.”

Miss Millard said she took Faye-Louise to Pontefract Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department on March 15 and was told by a junior doctor that her daughter had injured her elbow.

She said doctors attempted to ‘twist’ the youngster’s arm back into place causing her to ‘scream the hospital down’ before transferring her to Pinderfields Hospital in Wakefield for the night.

Social Services then visited the family home in Featherstone, on March 16 to put the children in the care of their grandparents – Featherstone town councillor John Jackson and his partner Barbara Dyer – leaving the devastated family apart for Mother’s Day.

Miss Millard has now put in a formal complaint against Pontefract Hospital, which is part of the Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.