Justice for Calin Samora

Calin Reed Samora was born at 6:05 am on July 6th, 2013, a healthy 7.0 lbs and 19” long. He was a perfect, beautiful, bouncy baby boy with blue eyes and light blond hair. During his first three months of life, he developed and grew on schedule with no issues or medical problems.

All that changed on October 4th, 2013, the worst day of my life. I had just started back to work on October 1st and had hired a caregiver to watch Calin and his 21-month-old sister, while I worked from home.

On that Friday at around 12:35 pm, I was in a conference call when the caregiver knocked on my door saying there was an emergency. I threw the phone down and ran out to find my son totally limp and gasping for air. I grabbed the phone to call 911 and waited for the paramedics.

Once the paramedics got there they gave him oxygen and he began to cry. I jumped in the ambulance and we raced to the hospital where numerous nurses and doctors began to work on him. The news was horrifying. Calin had an 8mm subdural hematoma on his brain.

He started having severe seizures and had to spend three days in a medical-induced coma, followed by two weeks in PICU. He has permanent brain damage caused by lack of oxygen from the trauma. He was completely blind for about six weeks after the trauma; and his vision has been permanently affected. His left side was weakened as a result of the damage to the right side of his brain. He is on medications for seizures and receives physical therapy, occupational therapy, child development therapy, and vision therapy every week. The brain tissue that was damaged has turned into liquid cysts and may require surgery in the future. The neurologist cannot give us any indication of his future abilities or limitations, including his physical and mental capacities.

The caregiver was arrested and charged August 2014.