{"id":87227,"date":"2026-10-06T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87227"},"modified":"2026-10-06T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T13:02:44","slug":"trans-nurse-faces-felonies-for-abusing-premature-newborn-at-helen-devos-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/trans-nurse-faces-felonies-for-abusing-premature-newborn-at-helen-devos-childrens-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Trans Nurse Faces Felonies For Abusing Premature Newborn At Helen DeVos Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Midwesterner:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.themidwesterner.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Ansley-659x1024.jpg\" width=\"159\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A transgender nurse is out of a job and facing up to a decade in prison after police allege he inflicted broken bones and bruises on a premature newborn in his care at Helen DeVos Children\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Kieran Ansley, 43, was fired and charged with two felony counts of second-degree child abuse and two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree child abuse following his arrest in early September. Log for the infant\u2019s room showed it was entered 32 times overnight on April 2, with Ansley accounting for 27 of the visits.\u00a0 Tests revealed broken bones in both legs, with factures near the knee and shin bones near the ankles, as well as a smaller bone in the lower leg. There were also numerous bruises to both of the infant\u2019s hands, arms, thigh, shin, buttocks, abdomen, and tongue, court records allege.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Midwesterner: A transgender nurse is out of a job and facing up to a decade in prison after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87228,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87227\/revisions\/87228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}