By Terri LaPoint / Health Impact News -

Teenager Isaiah Rider is speaking out about being a victim of Illinois DCFS and Lurie Children’s Hospital after they seized custody of him from his mother last year. As reported by Health Impact News, a verdict was reached Wednesday, March 11, that the 17 year old will remain a ward of the state of Illinois, a state he only visited in order to have surgery.

He has consistently maintained that his mother, Michelle Rider, has done nothing wrong. She has been accused of medical child abuse. Isaiah insists that all she was ever trying to do was to help him when he was in severe pain, pain which Lurie Children’s Hospital was allegedly unable to manage. It is what any loving mother would do, according to Isaiah.

According to Isaiah: “Every kid deserves to be with their mother. ...One thing you’re not going to do – take me away from my family. Don’t underestimate me. You’re never taking me away from my family. I love my family more than anything.”