I had a bunch of monitoring equipment hooked up to me once while i slept. I was being tested for apnea. Worst sleep of my life.
Being a guinea pig will do that to you. Methinks the process contaminates the experiment, double blinds not withstanding.

Doesn't it occur that all this was traumatic for the 7-year-old, to be dragged away from his Dad at a ball game. Then foster care?!
THAT is the child abuse. Do they really think they are acting in the child's best interest? What has happened to good judgement?
Why the over reaction?