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On Jan. 7, Douglas Kennedy, son of the late Robert F. Kennedy, got into an altercation with two Northern Westchester Hospital nurses that resulted in two counts of harassment, a violation, and one count of endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, being filed against the Fox News Channel personality.
Cari Luciano and Anna Lane, nurses at Mount Kisco's Northern Westchester Hospital, said they were attempting to prevent Kennedy, 45, from leaving the maternity ward with his 2-day-old son, Bo, after Kennedy reportedly told hospital staff he wanted to take the baby outside for "fresh air."
The nurses testified that Kennedy twisted Lane’s arm as she held the doorknob to a stairwell, then kicked Luciano in the groin as she reached toward the baby.
After a nonjury trial that began on Oct. 22 and lasted for five days, Mount Kisco Justice John Donohue found Kennedy not guilty.
Soon after the verdict was delivered in November, the nurses filed a civil lawsuit seeking $200,000 in damages on two counts each of negligence, assault, battery, negligent infliction of emotional distress and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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