Update (August 15, 2021): A viral cellphone video is providing a closer look at the disturbing incident involving former American Idol contestant Syesha Mercado. Footage shows Mercado sobbing while authorities seize her 10-day-old daughter at a traffic stop in Florida on Wednesday, the New York Post reported. The video also shows deputies surrounding the SUV which was occupied by Mercado, her newborn baby and her partner, Tyron Deener.

While conducting the roadside welfare check, police resurfaced previous accusations against Mercado, who had another baby taken away five months ago because the child was allegedly malnutritioned.

“THEY TOOK OUR BABY AGAIN!” Mercado wrote on Instagram while posting the video recorded by the couple.

The singer had her first child taken away after the boy was examined by Sally Smith, a doctor who has a reputation of being “too quick to diagnose child abuse.” Defense attorneys, parents and child welfare employees have criticized the doctor for many years, complaining about her aggressive interrogation of parents among other concerns, the Herald-Tribune reported.

Mercado said authorities have now “forcefully and legally kidnapped” a child from her for the second time. The video in the latest incident shows two male deputies serving the couple with a court order to turn over their baby.

“Do you not feel anything? You guys, I’m human. This is my baby. My baby is days old — and you’re taking my baby away from me,” Mercado can be heard saying around the 50-minute mark.

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The couple continues to explain that they are “compliant and following every law.” They also told authorities that their daughter had already been seen by physicians just a day earlier. Still, caseworkers took the baby from the mother’s arms and placed her alone in the back seat of a city vehicle.

“You are traumatizing my baby. How could you guys do this?” the devastated mother said. “You have no heart. This is so wrong.”

"Y'all done took our son, now y'all taking our daughter," Deener is heard saying.

According to TMZ, The Manatee County Sheriff's Office said the child was picked up by order of a family court judge.

"We understand that from the outside looking in The Manatee County Sheriff’s Office, Child Protection Investigation Division’s actions may seem uncaring, but let me assure you we have the best interest of children and families in mind at all times,” the sheriff’s office said. “We are governed by numerous policies and laws to ensure we do not lose focus when dealing with vulnerable families. The last thing anyone in this business wants to do is shelter children from their parents, but sometimes it is the only direction we are forced to take.”

As her child was being taken on Wednesday, Mercado pumped breast milk into a bottle to send off with her daughter. When Mercado begged for an explanation, police said the child was being taken because she didn't tell authorities that she had given birth. The legal battle for custody of her son is ongoing.

Original (August 14, 2021): Florida authorities have taken another child from American Idol finalist Syesha Mercado.

On Aug. 11, the singer, her companion Tyron Deener and their 10-day-old daughter were sitting in the car when Manatee County deputies surrounded the vehicle and provided them with a court order requiring them to hand over the newborn for a checkup at the hospital, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune reported.

Despite the pair informing law enforcement that the child had been viewed by doctors the day prior, authorities took the newborn into protective services where she has remained as officials say the couple neglected to inform them of the newborn’s birth.

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