Findlay police wrote “fresh rib fractures.” The charts said one healing crack. The email that explains it is still missing.

FINDLAY- A Hancock County grandmother says local agencies have spent more than two months passing one public-records request in a circle, and that the document at the center of it decides who rewrote a baby’s medical finding into a police report.

Jamie Wojdyla Meade posted the account on Facebook the night of October 6, 2026. She says she has been asking for a single email: the August 12, 2024 message Hancock County Children Services supervisor Kelli Miller sent to Findlay police officer Joshua Bortel, badge 194, in case number 2024-00014528. In her telling, Job and Family Services has called the email confidential, Findlay police have said it sits with city information technology, and Hancock County Prosecutor Sean Abbott has certified in writing that his office has no records matching the request. Sixty-six days in, she says she still does not have the message. If it is not produced by Friday, she wrote, she will file a public-records complaint in the Ohio Court of Claims under R.C. 2743.75 and ask a special master in Columbus to order the city to produce the email under seal.

The reason the email matters, Meade argues, is the gap between the charts and the police supplement written the next day.

She says St. Vincent records from July 15, 2024 show the child, Chandler, was evaluated in the emergency department with an overall normal physical exam, a normal head CT, and normal lab work. A skeletal survey, she wrote, found a single healing posterior-medial fracture of the right ninth rib. A Job and Family Services medical screening form signed by Dr. Kareem Jarrah described the child as asymptomatic, with a probable right ninth rib fracture.

Twenty-eight days later, on August 11, 2024, Dr. Randall S. Schlievert reviewed prior records and a March video at Miller’s request, according to Meade. She says Schlievert never examined the child that day, that his note confirmed a healing posterior rib fracture rather than a fresh one, and that the note was blocked from the patient portal because of a possible civil or criminal case. She also says Schlievert wrote that the single fracture was too recent to have come from the March 20, 2024 video, and theorized an unrecorded later event.

The next day, she says, Bortel logged an official supplement stating he had received an email from Miller claiming the child had been sent to St. Vincent’s Children’s Hospital and examined, and that doctors had observed fresh rib fractures that were the result of abuse and were not formed from ordinary play.

Meade lists the contradictions as she sees them. There was no August hospital examination, only an off-site chart review of July records. A single healing fracture became multiple fresh fractures in the police narrative. A March video cannot, she argues, produce a fresh rib fracture in August. And despite a supplement describing acute abuse, the prosecutor’s office has said it holds no related records and the matter was never sent for felony charging or grand-jury review.

She frames the missing email as the point that settles which account was altered. If Miller told Bortel that doctors had examined the child and found fresh fractures from abuse, Meade says, the agency transmitted a false medical claim. If Miller forwarded Schlievert’s actual note of a single healing fracture and Bortel wrote “fresh rib fractures” into the supplement, she says the officer falsified an official report under Ohio law. “Neither agency wants to hand over the document that proves which official altered the truth on a permanent public record,” she wrote.

Meade says she is finished with the runaround among children services, the police department, the prosecutor, and a city IT office she says she was never given a contact for. A Court of Claims complaint, she wrote, would bypass Hancock County officials and put the August 12 email in front of a state special master. She tagged Hancock County Job and Family Services, the county commissioners, Marissa Reza, the Findlay mayor’s office, Findlay police, the Findlay Free Press, The Fostoria Free Press, and The Courier.

The post drew 16 reactions and 14 shares. In the comments, James Artis wrote that agencies had been “getting away with fraud for far too long” and that he was praying she got justice. Meade replied that she was sorry his son had been taken, and that “we all will be heard.” Tami Jackson wrote, “You git’m grama.”

The agencies named in the post had not, in the post itself, offered a public response. Meade’s account is her reading of medical charts, a police supplement, and a prosecutor’s written certification. The email she says would decide the dispute has not been released.