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Showing posts with label JUSTINA PELLETIER. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JUSTINA PELLETIER. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

MASS. DCF CALLS FOR JUSTINA PELLETIER TO RECEIVE THE EXACT SAME MEDICAL TREATMENT SHE WAS RECEIVING BEFORE BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SNATCHED HER!

LIFE NEWS.COM reports the following:

“Ironically, DCF says that it will support reunification if the Pelletiers follow Tufts Medical Center care plan, which is what the Pelletiers wanted to do 14-months ago when Boston Children’s Hospital created a new plan and brought in DCF to enforce it,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.

No wonder Mr. and Mrs. Pelletier are irate!  And what is worse is the subtle but totally false implication that the Pelletiers weren't doing just that!

Mat Staver attributes this nonsense to a bunch of incompetent bureaucrats who are seeking to cover their tracks and who should be investigated and held accountable.  I certainly agree.

MARCH 25, 2014 JUSTINA PELLETIER RULING!

Below is a copy of the March 25, 2014 ruling in Justina Pelletier's case.  What I find interesting is that CT DCF didn't want to take the case and kept on putting it back in Massachusetts.  I guess CT DCF didn't want to rush in where Angels fear to tread and for once showed some common sense.

I think it is striking how Judge Johnston quoted all these professionals who make negative comments about Mr. and Mrs. Pelletier.  What happened to the Pelletiers is what happens to so many of us, that is, we are abused and attacked and then when we seek to defend ourselves or to position ourselves so our circumstances improve, the Judges, Attorneys, GALs, mental health professionals, and others characterize us as out of control, angry, and unreasonable, etc. 

It is interesting how so many parents who are denied their fundamental human and civil rights, most particularly their rights to due process and to parent their children, when they start to protest this treatment find themselves generally vilified.  I think that is the most deeply hurtful aspect of being subject to these kinds of human rights abuses--the lies that get told about you, and the false characterizations. 


Suddenly, the fact that you have been a good citizen and a good friend to others, the fact that you have given of your strengths and abilities and shown compassion to your neighbors--none of that matters to Family Court or DCF because they are determined to destroy any shred of good reputation you might have in their desperation to justify their wrong doing, using any smear tactics they have available.  Sadly, this is what is happening in the Pelletier case.


Anyway, not to keep carrying on.  If you are interested in the decision, please click on the link below:







http://www.scribd.com/doc/214568993/Justina-Pelletier-ruling

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

JOURNALIST ANNE STEVENSON SPEAKS OUT ON DCF ABUSE OF CT CITIZEN JUSTINA PELLETIER!

According to Investigative Journalist Anne Stevenson, "Justina Pelletier's case in Massachusetts sends the resounding message that DCF should have their feet held to the fire for all the money they have spent keeping this child away from her fit and feisty parents. The State should not be allowed to take children from fit parents because they dislike the parents' disposition, and hospitals should not be making decisions for the State and the parents. This child needs to be home with the parents who love her."
 
For more information on Justina, please read Anne Stevenson's article at the link below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anne-stevenson/justina-department-children-families_b_5139708.html


Saturday, April 19, 2014

LIFENEWS REPORTS JUSTINA RECEIVING HUNDREDS OF EASTER CARDS!

This just in from "Life News: "Her parents may have been denied a chance to visit Justina Pelletier on Easter Sunday, but that hasn’t stopped hundreds of supporters from sending the teenager “Get Well” cards.

Justina is the sick teenager who state officials wrongfully took custody of away from her parents. The family will not be allowed to visit their daughter on Easter Sunday. The news comes after attorneys working with her family released a letter Justina reportedly wrote saying she is not being treated well.
Today, her sister Jennifer will join her parents for their scheduled weekly visit with Justina. Jennifer will attempt to hand deliver a mountain of “Get Well” cards to Justina from supporters.

For more information, please click on the link below:

http://www.lifenews.com/2014/04/18/hundreds-of-get-well-cards-headed-to-justina-pelletier-after-parents-denied-easter-visit/

Monday, April 14, 2014

BREAKING NEWS ON JUSTINA PELLETIER FROM "LIFE NEWS"!

Justina Pelletier’s Parents File Emergency Petition With Supreme Court to Regain Custody

Justina Pelletier’s parents have field an emergency appeal with the state Supreme Court in Massachusetts to regain custody of their daughter.

Today, Linda and Lou Pelletier filed a Habeas Corpus pleading with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The detailed Petition and Memorandum of Law requests that Justina be released from the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) and be returned to the custody of her parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier.

On March 25, 2014, Suffolk Juvenile Judge Joseph Johnston ruled that the custody of Justina will remain with Massachusetts DCF.

“Massachusetts DCF has no right to hold Justina captive. This is unacceptable. Justina needs to return home,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.

ON "MAD IN AMERICA" NANCY DELGUIDICE SPEAKS OF "AMERICA'S SWEETHEART" JUSTINA PELLETIER!

April 14, 2014

Activist, Nancy Delguidice speaks about the Pelletier travesty in her article as follows:

"Justina Pelletier, a fifteen-year-old girl from West Hartford, Connecticut, has captured the heart of the American public.  Whether or not Justina Pelletier survives her ordeal is yet to be determined. Thousands of people nationwide are praying. What is certain at this point is that Justina is truly America’s Sweetheart.  She will never be forgotten, and life holds so much for her future.

Justina Pelletier was an extraordinary girl, even before her kidnapping at Boston Children’s Hospital on Valentine’s Day, 2013.  She had suffered a stroke at the age of six, and nearly died of gastro-intestinal problems before finally receiving a diagnosis of mitochondrial disease at Tufts University Medical Center in Boston.

Under the care of Tufts’ Dr. Korson, Justina was doing well.  So well, in fact, that she had an active social life, was very involved with school where her specific learning needs were being fully addressed.  Before Justina came down with the flu, she was a competitive ice skater."
 
For more on this story, please click on the link below:
 

Sunday, April 13, 2014

PROTEST ABUSE OF CT CITIZEN JUSTINA PELLETIER: MAY 4, 2014, NYC!

MindFreedom International is organizing a protest of the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting May 4th in New York City.  I think it is so important that Jim Gottstein himself is coming from Alaska to participate.  I really hope you can join us.  There is a Facebook Event Page, #StopPsychAssault: Protest the American Psychiatric Association, NYC 2014, that just got launched today. 
 
In addition to protesting (1) psychiatric imprisonment, euphemistically called involuntary commitment, (2) forced drugging, (3) Electroshock, (4) seclusion & restraint, etc., we are joining those in the Free Justina Pelletier effort.  
 
·         #FreeJustina: Protest the American Psychiatric Association, May 4, 2014, NYC
 

OVERVIEW OF THE JUSTINA PELLETIER CASE FROM THE "ABOUT" SECTION OF "A MIRACLE FOR JUSTINA" ON FACEBOOK!

**Justina's Story**

On February 10, 2013 Justina's doctors sent her to Boston Children"s Hospital to receive their prescribed treatment for symptoms of Mitochondrial Disease, which had evolved following a flu-like illness. Justina's GI specialist had transferred from Tufts to Boston Children's Hospital (BCH) and was expecting to admit her under his care,

Instead, a BCH neurologist intercepted the direct admission, asserting "Mitochondrial Disease does not exist", and supporting a young psychologist's premature diagnosis: "Undifferentiated Somatoform Disorder", meaning it was psychosomatic or "all in her head."

When Justina's parents disagreed with the 'new' diagnosis and treatment plan presented to them on day 3 of Justina's hospital admission, the admitting physician ignored their concerns and asserted himself as the ultimate authority on Justina, The Pelletiers were instructed in writing that they could not be in contact with any of Justina's doctors, nor could they seek the medical care they trusted prior to coming to BCH.

On February 14, day 4, Justina's parents formally requested a transfer for their daughter- asserting their parental right to make medical decisions for their daughter, including discharge from BCH. Rather than acknowledge parental rights and demonstrate respect for parents dealing with their daughter's long standing medical problems, BCH petitioned for the Department of Children & Families (DCF) to seize custody of Justina, which was granted in court the next day.

Since February 15th, BCH has exerted control over all aspects of Justina's health care and her life-- BCH executed the traumatic separation of Justina from her family, friends and trusted doctors and continues to use coercion and force to treat Justina -- against her will.

Now in addition they have only let her family see her for an hour a week and only two people can visit her and they are supervised. There are only two twenty minute phone calls a week which are supervised as well. She has even had her rights taken away by not even allowing her to talk to any of her friends. She cannot speak out for what she wants and how she feels! To this point there has been no investigation by Mass DCF of her family. Now they have been threatening her and the family that she will never go home and will be put in foster care.  Her health has gone downhill without her medical treatment and where she was skating before she is now not able to walk and in a wheelchair. She is scared and wants to come home!

Justina's supportive community is expanding to meet the daunting challenge of exposing the egregious human rights violations committed by world renowned BCH and their cohorts, the Department of Children and Families in MA. This costly battle is fueled by the love and commitment of Justina's family , friends and those who have been inspired to fight against this injustice through close connection to their story.

Only through exposure and accountability of BCH and DCF for the pain and suffering they have caused Justina and her family can we hope to secure protection of our own rights!!



 



Tax deductible donations to support Justina's parents' efforts to rescue her can be made at www.freejustina.com.

Also, PsychRights is selling #FreeJustina T-Shirts with the profits to go to the Free Justina nonprofit.
 
The Twitter hastag for the Free Justina effort is #FreeJustina.
 
 
 
 

Monday, April 7, 2014

WHEN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES YOUR CHILDREN!

Journalist Stephen M. Krason talks about what happens when DCF takes your children,
 
"Many people who have followed the Justina Pelletier case—largely ignored by the mainstream media, by the way—have thought that there has to be more to it, or that it’s an outrageous out-of-the-ordinary affair. This is the case where the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families forcibly took custody from her parents over a year ago of a teenager who had been treated for years for mitochondrial disease (a genetic disorder), when they brought her to Boston Children’s Hospital for consultation about a related gastrointestinal problem and resisted a quickly-made diagnosis by a medical resident and a psychologist there that she instead had a mental problem. Justina has been confined to Children’s Hospital for over a year and then DCF assigned her to a group home and then foster care and a juvenile judge awarded the agency custody of her until she turns eighteen. Justina has written that she feels like a prisoner and she has been denied both schooling and the opportunity to attend Mass or receive Holy Communion—all this, while the hospital and DCF claim they’re “helping” her. Her parents’ have engaged in a protracted legal battle with DCF and now their attorneys have filed a habeas corpus action.
 
This is not a unique or unusual case. There is nothing more than we’re hearing. Rather, it’s par for the course for the child protective system (CPS) in the U.S., even if especially outrageous. As one who has written about the CPS for over a quarter-century, I can affirm that one aspect of the Pelletier case after another echoes typical CPS practice."
 
For more on this story, please click on the link below:
 

HUCKABEE SPEAKS OUT ON BEHALF OF JUSTINA!

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

ALAN DERSHOWITZ OFFERS TO ASSIST IN HELPING TO FREE JUSTINA!

According to Alan Dershowitz, Massachusetts law states that in a situation where there is a medical disagreement between professionals, only the parents have the right to decide. 
 
For more on this, please click on the link below:


http://therightscoop.com/alan-dershowitz-offers-to-help-freejustina-says-law-is-clear-and-on-the-side-of-the-parents/

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

THIS NEWS JUST IN RE JUSTINA, MASS STATE LEGISLATORS TO INVESTIGATE THEIR DCF!

"Massachusetts state representatives Jim Lyons (R-Andover) and Marc Lombardo (R-Billerica) will discuss an impending investigation into DCF spending on the Justina Pelletier case at a Wednesday morning news conference.
 
Representatives Lyons and Lombardo have requested that the Chairman of the House Committee on Post Audit and Oversight convene an investigation into the amount of taxpayer dollars that have been spent on the Justina Pelletier case since the state first intervened over fourteen months ago.
 
The news conference will be on Wednesday, April 2, at 11:00 A.M. on the sidewalk in front of the steps to the State House on Beacon Street. They will be joined by other State Representatives and a spokesperson for the Pelletier family."
 
For more information on this matter, please click on the link below: