A Massachusetts juvenile court judge on Tuesday awarded "permanent" custody of a Connecticut teen at the center of an interstate custody battle to the state of Massachusetts in a major setback for her family fighting for her return.
The ruling by Judge Joseph Johnston leaves it up to the state Department of Children and Families to decide whether or when 15-year-old Justina Pelletier should be returned to her West Hartford home, The Boston Globe reported.
Justina has been in the agency's custody since last February, when her parents took her to the Bay State to get medical treatment for a rare condition called Mitochondrial diagnosis. When she was taken to Boston Children's Hospital to be treated for a negative reaction to the flu last year, doctors determined that her problems were partly psychiatric and that a prior treatment at Tufts Medical Center constituted medical abuse. They contacted DCF, which took the girl.
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