The slight man with tears running down his cheek had come to Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn to visit his newborn son, Anuel, in the neonatal intensive care unit and plead for permission to take him home.
The hospital needed additional proof Mr. Perez was the father. Because mom is not present, you were unable to sign the birth certificate, she said.
Ms. Fields's birth plan had declared him the father, but, critically, she had died before filling out a birth certificate.
And with no official document, the hospital would not let him take his son home. 'You all don't know how you all are making me feel,' Mr. Perez told the social workers.
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