Founder of The Honest Diagnosis Project, a national effort dedicated to confronting medical misdiagnosis in child abuse cases and building a more accurate, transparent system of care. Her work began not in theory, but in lived experience. In 2024, after bringing her infant son to a children’s hospital for medical care, Sarah and her family were suddenly accused of abuse. Within days, her children were removed from her custody.

What followed was not just a legal battle; it was a profound unraveling of trust in a system she had believed was designed to protect families like hers. As she navigated the intersection of medicine, law, and child welfare, she began connecting with other families whose stories echoed her own. What she discovered was not an isolated incident, but a pattern. A pattern that often begins with medical uncertainty and escalates into life-altering consequences without independent review or full transparency.

Sarah’s dream for The Honest Diagnosis Project is to ensure that no family faces that process alone, and that no medical conclusion goes unquestioned when the stakes are this high. She now works with a coalition of physicians, legal experts, and researchers to bring clarity, accountability, and evidence-based review into these cases. Her advocacy is grounded in a belief that protecting children and preserving 

Founder of The Honest Diagnosis Project. His mission is direct: to challenge, displace, and ultimately replace child abuse pediatrics in its current forensic form with a system rooted in transparent evidence, independent review, scientific accountability, and due process.

 William’s commitment began with the destruction visited upon his own family. In July 2017, a child sustained an injury to the back of his head in a fall at home. Two days later, the child lost consciousness while attending the home daycare operated by William’s wife and died the following day. After the death was attributed to abusive head trauma, the legal and child-protection systems moved with extraordinary speed against William’s family.

 Within less than two weeks, William’s children were removed from summer school and placed in foster care. His wife was served with a petition seeking termination of her parental rights, required to leave the family home, and later charged with murder. A family that had been safe, healthy, and intact was fractured almost immediately by medical and legal conclusions that William believes disregarded critical evidence and treated disputed medical opinion as established fact.

 As William examined the medical records, legal proceedings, institutional relationships, and experiences of other families, he identified recurring concerns: potentially exculpatory tests and findings that were concealed, omitted, or discounted; unexplained departures from accepted clinical practice; forensic opinions presented with greater certainty than the evidence supported; and testimony capable of driving permanent foster or adoptive placement, incarceration, employment loss, and irreversible damage to family relationships.

 William came to believe that families cannot be adequately protected by case-by-case resistance alone. The courtroom authority of the existing forensic model must be met with an independent medical institution capable of reviewing complete records, developing credible alternative explanations, supporting qualified counsel, measuring error, and insisting that uncertainty be disclosed rather than converted into accusation.

 His vision for THDP is to combine transparent and determined advocacy with clinical rigor. THDP will confront unreliable practices through evidence, research, litigation support, independent physicians, public accountability, and a replacement model that performs better. William believes the current forensic structure is too deeply embedded within pediatric medicine, child protection, and prosecution to be corrected through modest reform alone. It must be replaced by a model that returns medical decision-making to sound scientific principles while protecting genuinely abused children and preserving safe families.

As a founder of The Honest Diagnosis Project, her mission is to design, find, and fund research initiatives that can fill substantial knowledge gaps currently exploited by child abuse pediatricians. Presently, there is insufficient data regarding the true incidence of skeletal and neurological injury as a result of birth trauma. The current body of published literature on AHT (abusive head trauma)  and NAI (non-accidental injury) suggests that the most frequently physically abused children are less than 6 months old, but she believes this assumption has been built on anecdotal studies, consistently diagnosing unknown causes as abuse, and compounded circular logic.

Sarah's interest in the science behind child abuse medicine began after her 7-week-old son stopped breathing on February 4th, 2022. He was rushed by ambulance to a local children's hospital where he was discovered to have traumatic brain injuries and healing rib fractures. He died on February 8th, 2022. A child abuse pediatrian diagnosed him with AHT and NAI and ordered his twin sister and older sister to be brought in for evaluation. His twin was also found to have healing skull and rib fractures. 

Her daughters were taken and her husband arrested and tried for reckless homicide with minimal investigation into the accusations. She experienced firsthand the full power of the state and its willingness to use children as pawns when looking for someone to blame for the death of a child. Her husband was acquitted in September of 2023, and their children returned to their full custody in November of 2023 - each traumatized and broken in their own way, but grateful to begin the healing process.

Sarah holds a B.S. in Biomedical Science and spent the first ten years of her career working in immunoassay and molecular diagnostic manufacturing. After leaving the industry to stay home with her daughters for two years, she was hired as a research technologist working in translational virology research. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in microbiology.  

Her vision for THDP is to build coalitions of medical and legal professionals that understand the complex nature of medicolegal casework, to advocate and educate all participants within the system on the tenets of evidence-based medicine, and to build a body of research rooted in observable data rather than biased speculation. 

Lead Volunteer + Victim Intake Specialist