After that emotional public meeting in Lehigh County,

when all those families shared their stories about misdiagnoses and forced separations,

what became clear was that the problem was big.

The families blamed one hospital network,

and the same doctor's name kept coming up again and again. A pediatrician,

Dr. Deborah Asernio Jensen. This mess was created by Dr. Jensen's false allegations.

I'd like to see this council, this county, this state, get rid of this Deborah Jensen.

Please assure Dr. Jensen is removed. Debra Jensen. Dr. Jensen. Dr. Jensen this Deborah Jensen. Please assure Dr. Jensen is removed. Debra Jensen.

Dr. Jensen. Dr. Jensen. Dr. Jensen. I'm going to summarize. Get rid of Dr. Jensen and fix

the system because it's broken. Dr. Jensen was named 108 times that night.

I went back and counted.

By the time this meeting happened,

Dr. Jensen had been working for a hospital system in Allentown, Pennsylvania,

the Lehigh Valley Health Network, for nearly 10 years.

She'd been hired in 2014 to head up their child advocacy center,

but she'd been working in the field for decades. The current hospital administration declined to talk with me for this story,

so I don't know how much they knew about her work history before they hired her. All they would

say about this is that they would have done a series of background checks for anyone working

with kids in a medical setting. I don't doubt they did those, but surely someone bothered to Google her, right?

If they had, they would have found multiple complaints.

They would have found lawsuits alleging misdiagnoses and unnecessary child removals based on her findings.

Dr. Jensen would not talk to me for this series either. She did not answer my emails or letters requesting an interview.

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