Mom whose son was rushed to hospital after leaving caregiver's home pushes to create 'Levi's Law'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A subject household has been warring for justness since a caregiver was accused 2 years agone of severely injuring their son.

While they await the proceedings aboriginal this year, they person a caller mission: to marque definite subject families person entree to each tribunal hearings careless of wherever they are successful the world.

Levi Anderson is similar astir three-year-old boys and loves barroom connected his day and posing for pictures.

His mom, Christin Anderson, says he's travel a agelong mode since his beingness changed 2 years ago.

"Considering his injuries and however horrific they were, he's doing well, but the explanation of bully is decidedly skewed for me," Anderson said.

In March of 2023, Levi was rushed from a Hanford in-home daycare to Valley Children's Hospital, wherever helium remained for 21 days.

Doctors determined helium was severely injured.

Investigators accidental those injuries were accordant with "Shaken Baby Syndrome."

His caregiver, Courtney Bias, was arrested and charged with kid abuse.

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Levi is inactive recovering from the injuries.

He has to deterioration a helmet due to the fact that he's inactive missing a information of his skull, and helium attends aggregate doctors appointments and therapy sessions weekly.

"A traumatic encephalon wounded is not thing that conscionable goes away. it's thing that you woody with for the remainder of your life," Anderson said.

Since the precise archetypal hearing, Christin has made it a precedence to be each tribunal day and advocator for her son.

But erstwhile her husband, a combatant aviator successful the Navy, was fixed orders to relocate to Virginia Beach, Virginia, she realized it wouldn't beryllium arsenic casual arsenic conscionable hopping connected Zoom.

"You'd deliberation it'd beryllium a fixed that I would enactment remotely successful my insignificant son's nationalist tribunal hearings, but that was not the case. Instead it was a hard no, you cannot participate," Anderson said.

Kings County District Attorney Sarah Hacker says Marsy's Law provides that victims are entitled to look successful the tribunal proceedings.

However, it doesn't specifically code zoom appearances.

That determination lies with the judge.

"It depends connected the justice due to the fact that the justice is the 1 who decides however their courtroom is going to beryllium run. It depends from courtroom to courtroom, justice to judge," Hacker said.

After Christin was initially denied, the DA filed a question asking the justice to transportation the tone of Marsy's instrumentality into zoom appearances.

The justice approved that determination and, arsenic agelong arsenic the lawsuit remains with the existent judge, Christin volition person distant entree moving forward.

But she doesn't privation immoderate different subject household to person to woody with this successful the future.

So she's present pushing to make "Levi's Law."

"What I'm trying to bash is make immoderate authorities that states that if you person a insignificant child, connected the defence oregon prosecution, that you tin enactment remotely," Anderson said.

She's besides rallied enactment connected societal media, increasing her TikTok leafage to astir 200,000 followers by sharing Levi's story.

She says she won't halt warring for subject families oregon her for son.

"It's very, precise important that I'm determination to beryllium heard, and it's important that I'm determination to beryllium a dependable for Levi and 1 day, erstwhile helium grows up, he'll cognize that his ma fought for him and that justness was served," Anderson said.

This week, Christin is getting different measurement person successful her propulsion to make Levi's Law.

She has a gathering scheduled with unit of Congresswoman Jennifer Kiggans, who represents the country wherever she present lives.

The bully quality for Levi is he's acceptable to person a skull replacement successful April.

If each goes well, he'll beryllium capable to unrecorded without a helmet by the extremity this year.

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