DeSoto parents' fight for newborn, school library bill, fentanyl-laced pills

Also, local colleges are being targeted by hoax calls. [EVENING ROUNDUP](dallasnews.com) dallasnews.com Sponsored by: Content and story selection are solely editorial's decision. [Dallas residents and parents Meci and Rodney Jackson are pictured sitting on a couch in their home. ]( Over two weeks ago, Meci and Rodney Jackson’s newborn baby, Mila, was taken away from their home against the couple’s will by CPS and assisted by Dallas County Constables in DeSoto, Texas. They are photographed in Dallas, April 11, 2023. (Tom Fox / Staff Photographer) DeSoto parents of newborn fight to remove baby from foster care]( Rodney and Temecia “Meci” Jackson have seen their newborn daughter three times since the state, in their words, “kidnapped” the seven-day-old. During their second visit [while the child was in foster care](, the parents became alarmed by what they described in an April 6 press conference as red bumps and white discharge in the child’s vaginal area during a diaper change. Temecia Jackson, 38, immediately wanted to take the infant to the doctor, but she said Child Protective Services told her the foster parent would do that. A doctor’s visit is the way the Jacksons’ ordeal began, an ordeal that includes incorrect names on an affidavit, constables allegedly using a key to enter the family’s home and a doctor’s opinion that superseded the desire of the parents and their midwife. 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