A model disclosed the egregiously improper questions she claimed a nurse posed to her 10-year-old daughter following her hospitalisation for a feline bite.
Robin O’Malley, a model and radio show co-host, shared the bizarre interaction that occurred after the nurses asked her to leave the room to ask her daughter questions. The mother did not reveal the name of the hospital where the incident occurred.
During a recent episode of The Outlaws Radio Show, O’Malley sat down with her other fellow co-hosts and said that the topic of the conversation is ‘very triggering,’ especially for parents.
O’Malley began the account with hesitation, revealing that staff at the hospital that must remain nameless had questioned her daughter about her sexual activity and whether or not she had ever used alcohol or smoked.
‘I’ve worked so hard to protect her, just for these nurses to ruin her innocence in a split second when all we did was go to the hospital for a cat bite,’ O’Malley said.
‘I’m not gonna state what hospital,’ the mother said, adding that her daughter was admitted into the paediatric wing.
She then went over the ‘normal questions’ that nurses and doctors ask patients, including if they feel like harming themselves or if they feel safe at home.
‘And so, these nurses asked me to leave the room for a moment so they could ask my daughter some questions.’
‘I was thinking that they were going to ask those very questions I just listed, and those were not, in fact, the questions that they asked her,’ O’Malley said.
The model said that her daughter is still an ‘innocent,’ ‘normal child,’ who ‘doesn’t try to act older than her age.’
O’Malley said: ‘So these nurses asked my 10-year-old daughter if she was having sex and does she drink and smoke?’
After questioning her child, O’Malley said that one of the nurses came out of the room and told her that she ‘may have opened up a can of worms.’
‘And I’m like, “What do you mean?’
‘And she said, “Uh, I asked her if she’s having sex and she was very confused on what I asked her so now she’s kind of curious”,’ O’Malley recalled.
The mother then went into the room, where she was ‘immediately’ greeted by her daughter, who asked: ‘Mommy, what’s sex?’
‘Oh, okay. So now, I am very livid. I’m very, very, very upset because my innocent 10-year-old child, who I fought so hard to protect her innocence from this already crazy world, just for these nurses to ruin her innocence in a split second when all we did was go to the hospital for a cat bite,’ O’Malley explained.
‘Wow,’ one of her co-hosts responded.
She then detailed how the questions the nurses asked didn’t sit well with her.
‘I find that to be an issue because it’s not that they were asking her that because they felt something was wrong,’ O’Malley said.
‘They asked her that because now, apparently, this is a new thing that hospitals ask children starting from the age of seven.’
‘And they do not communicate that with the parent beforehand.’
After a brief moment of silence, her co-host, Darvio ‘Kingpen’ Morrow, said: ‘Yeah, that’s outrageous. That’s absolutely outrageous.’
‘The fact that they thought it was a good idea to do this, and the fact that they did, the most important thing is not only did they do this with a 10-year-old, but they did it without telling you first,’ he added.
‘Because you could have told them, “Aye, don’t do that”,’ Morrow said.
‘Right,’ O’Malley replied.
‘And the fact that they did that without your consent—- that’s wild.’
O’Malley said that she was left ‘absolutely fuming’ and ‘distraught’ over the interaction.
‘I’m pretty sure smoke was coming out of my ears, like, I was heated,’ she said.
The radio co-host said that she didn’t see the nurse again after she asked her daughter those questions.
Morrow then said that the entire situation would have been different if O’Malley’s daughter was at the hospital for something that had to do with that ‘region.’
‘Like, it was a cat bite,’ said, aid laughing before he added: ‘What are we doing?’
The frustrated mother said that following the awkward exchange, she told her friend who works at that hospital.
‘She was like, “Unfortunately, they make us ask that question now, starting from the age of seven years old”,’ O’Malley said.
‘And I was like, that is so f’d up.’
‘That nurse destroyed that innocent part of her,’ she added.
The moral of this story is, to never leave your child alone during a visit to the hospital or the doctors. Never leave your child alone with any adult or authority figures, and you should find it highly suspicious if anybody asks to be alone with your child.
To be honest, I wouldn’t have left the room because there would be no way my 10-year-old was going to be alone in a room with anyone.
This woman states that she’s tried to protect her daughter’s innocence, so does that mean that she’s never had a conversation with her daughter about what to do if someone were to touch her inappropriately? Is this keeping her daughter from being aware of what can happen in the world, and sometimes children of sexual abuse have trouble describing what happened to them because they don’t even know the anatomical terms of use.
She has to identify the hospital if this is indeed what happened. In addition, is this lady really under the impression that her 10-year-old child has never heard the term “sex”? It’s very common these days!
This mother ought to have protested the instant the nurse requested her to leave the room. The state does not raise children; families do.
It is impossible to keep your child innocent forever, and if you don’t teach them about their bodies and sex, older kids will, and they will take advantage of their ignorance. Additionally, children who don’t understand what sex is can’t establish appropriate boundaries.
Parents, talk to your children before you even think they need to hear it or someone else will!
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