Sarah Goble and Brian Booxx have filed a 52-page federal lawsuit against Children’s Mercy Hospital and two doctors, alleging violations of their parental and due process rights. The suit claims the doctors wrongly diagnosed their infant son, Finn, with abuse and provided misleading medical information that contributed to both children being taken into state custody, according to FOX4 Kansas City. The couple is seeking damages.
What the lawsuit alleges
The lawsuit alleges that the children’s separation caused emotional trauma, financial losses and lasting harm to the family, including Finn and their daughter, FOX4 reported. Goble told the station that the effects on the family extended beyond the time the children were in state custody.
The events described in reports
Goble and Booxx took their two-month-old son to Children’s Mercy in October 2024 because he was having trouble swallowing milk. Doctors found a fracture and told the parents Finn appeared to have suffered 14 fractures, an assessment Goble disputed, according to FOX4. The station also reported Goble’s account that Kansas child welfare officials applied to remove both children on October 3, 2024, without an investigation.
The children remained out of their parents’ custody for nearly a year. The allegations of abuse were not substantiated, and the case against Goble and Booxx was eventually dropped, FOX4 reported.
Scot Scoop News reported that Goble was diagnosed with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, an inherited genetic tissue disorder associated with fragile bones, and that hospital doctors had not evaluated the condition before diagnosing the fractures. That information is attributed to Scot Scoop News and has not been independently verified here.
Reporting law and hospital response
Kansas law requires specified professionals, including people providing medical care, to report when they have reason to suspect that a child has been harmed by abuse or neglect. It classifies a willful and knowing failure to make a required report as a Class B misdemeanor, according to the Kansas Office of Revisor of Statutes.
FOX4 reported that it requested comment from Children’s Mercy about the lawsuit and had not received a response at the time of its report.
