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  • Teen "held captive" in psych ward for a year after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Judge orders her return to her family

    http://www.westhartfordnews.com/arti...mode=fullstory
    Published: Sunday, December 15, 2013

    By Kathleen Schassler

    @ImKat17 on Twitter


    WEST HARTFORD?As snow fell on their West Hartford home on Tuesday morning, the Pelletier family arrived in Boston with the sunrise. They?ve made the trip weekly to visit their youngest, Justina Pelletier, 15, who?s been held at Boston Children?s Hospital for the past 10 months.

    Justina, who was diagnosed and treated by doctors at Tufts Medical Center, in Boston, for a rare genetic disease called mitochondrial disorder, arrived at BCH last February to be treated for the flu. She has been held captive ever since.

    Since Justina?s regular doctor wasn?t available, a new team of doctors treating Justina at BCH reportedly said that mitochondrial disorder does not exist. They instead diagnosed Justina with somatoform disorder, a mental illness characterized by pain and gastrointestinal symptoms that have no identifiable physical cause.
    ...
    CDC says mitochondrial disorder does exist:
    http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/mitochondrial-faq.html

    So do other medical institutions, in contrast to BCH's opinion:

    http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disord..._diseases.aspx


    This is very concerning situation.

    ETA:

    A pattern of ?parent-ectomies" targetting PANDAS and mitochondrial disorder cases:

    http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...xZI/story.html
    These cases are rare, but not as rare as one might think. In just the last 18 months, Children?s ? which given its reputation attracts many of the toughest cases from across the Northeast ? has been involved in at least five cases where a disputed medical diagnosis led to parents either losing custody or being threatened with that extreme measure. Similar custody fights have occurred on occasion at other pediatric hospitals around the country.
    ...
    Still, allegations of suspected medical child abuse become far murkier when the parents? assessment of the child is backed by reputable physicians at different hospitals. Some child-protection doctors, whose field has recently been elevated to a board-certified specialty, are beginning to draw criticism ? even from some unlikely quarters.

    Dr. Eli Newberger, a pediatrician who founded the child protection team at Children?s in 1970 and ran it for three decades, cautions that ?doctors in this new specialty have enormous and really unchecked power.?
    ...
    ?She was visibly upset, stating she refused to go,? a clinician in the psychiatry unit wrote in the hospital record on April 9. ?She stated she wanted to speak to her lawyer.?

    Justina, who was desperate to return to school even if she was unable to walk, repeatedly told the Children?s team that she did not want to go into this ward. But, the record noted, she was informed that ?she was not able to make this choice.?

    Choices about her future were now in the hands of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
    Last edited by Emily; March 31, 2014, 01:23 AM. Reason: Added ETA; "influenza" in title changed to "flu" as stated in articles, Updated title
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  • #2
    Re: Teen being "held captive" in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital

    That's a horrific story... thanks for the emotional read!

    Commonwealth of Massachusetts better step up and protect this vulnerable child! As a parent this really bothers me!

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    • #3
      Re: Teen being "held captive" in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital

      Here's a couple of updates with more background on this situation, Biological:

      http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/201...UgP/story.html


      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...amilies-again/
      Dec. 16, 2013 9:01am Liz Klimas
      ...
      The ?next wave of psychiatry?

      The missing piece of the puzzle (because Boston Children?s Hospital and the Department of Children and Families are not speaking out despite requests from The Blaze), is ?why.? What would the hospital have to gain if it didn?t truly believe it was doing what?s best for the child?

      Katie Higgins, a woman who says she was a nurse in Boston Children?s Hospital?s psychiatric ward for five years in the mid-2000s, has some thoughts.

      Higgins, who said she had filed a formal complaint with the Department of Mental Health regarding the hospital?s treatment of anorexic patients in 2009, said there seems to be a stereotype of who the hospital is targeting.

      ?You?ll see middle- to upper-middle class families. You?ll see families with good insurance,? Higgins said.

      She believes diagnosis of psychosomatic disorders like somatoform, which is what Justina Pelletier is currently being treated for, is the ?next wave of psychiatry that is going to wreak on our children.?

      ?Psychiatry is like a gold mine because so much of it is arbitrary and subjective,? she said. ?It?s easy to get away with it. It?s easy to create a market and it?s easy to make millions of dollars.?...
      And most of the senior psych department staff at Children's seem to be tied to Harvard. That's what concerns me about the girl being kept there in isolation for almost a year.

      Harvard's Experiment on the Unabomber, Class of '62
      Jonathan D. Moreno
      Posted: 05/25/2012 12:08 pm
      ...
      For all the reporting about the 50th anniversary reunion dustup, an odd twist to the Harvard Unabomber story has not been mentioned: During Kaczynski's sophomore year at Harvard, in 1959, he was recruited for a psychological experiment that, unbeknownst to him, would last three years. The experiment involved psychological torment and humiliation, a story I include in my book Mind Wars: Brain Research and the Military in the 21st Century.

      The Harvard study aimed at psychic deconstruction by humiliating undergraduates and thereby causing them to experience severe stress.
      ...
      The man who conducted the humiliation experiment was the brilliant and complex Harvard psychologist Henry A. Murray. Though his fame has diminished since his death, Murray was among the most important scientists of his day, the pioneer of personality tests that are now a routine part of industrial management and psychological assessments. It is not too much to say that contemporary psychology would be far different without his contributions. (Full disclosure: Murray was a close friend and colleague of my father's, but we knew nothing of this experiment.)
      ...
      According to Alston Chase, author of Harvard and the Unabomber, Leary called Murray "the wizard of personality assessment who, as OSS chief psychologist, had monitored military experiments on brainwashing and sodium amytal interrogation."
      ...
      these curious historical intersections remind us that, as William Faulkner put it in another context, "The past isn't dead; it's not even past."
      It's the present for a girl with mitochondrial disease who had the bad luck to get the flu and end up with that bunch performing a "parent-ectomy" on her.
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      • #4
        Re: Teen being "held captive" in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital

        <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Justina Pelletier's Health is &quot;Scary&quot; Her Sister Says in New Interview
        <a href="http://t.co/9sxIfIe12o">http://t.co/9sxIfIe12o</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23FreeJustina&amp;src=hash">#FreeJustina </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23tcot&amp;src=hash">#tcot</a> <a href="http://t.co/8szmilIOdT">pic.twitter.com/8szmilIOdT</a></p>&mdash; Steven Ertelt (@StevenErtelt) <a href="https://twitter.com/StevenErtelt/statuses/448154819891433472">March 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
        <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
        http://framingham.patch.com/groups/a...-in-framingham
        Connecticut Teen in Custody Dispute Moved to Wayside in Framingham

        Fifteen-year-old girl had been at Boston Children's Hospital for more than 11 months.
        Posted by Susan Petroni (Editor) , January 21, 2014 at 11:33 AM

        ...

        The move is consistent with a Jan. 10 ruling by Judge Joseph Johnston that called for Pelletier to be moved from Boston Children?s Bader 5 psychiatric unit to a new facility.

        Justina, who has been diagnosed and treated by Tufts Medical Center doctors for mitochondrial disorder, a rare genetic disease, was sent to Boston Children?s Hospital for a bout with the flu last February.

        Justina?s regular doctor was unavailable at the time...
        My list of fears about being hospitalized with the flu were:

        1. Medication side effects
        2. Hospital acquired infections
        3. Needing ECMO
        4. The price tag

        What has happened to this family is a horror I never imagined. She has not even made it back to her home state yet.
        Last edited by Emily; March 26, 2014, 05:54 AM. Reason: Embedded Twitter photo
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        • #5
          Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

          Source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/2...o-foster-care/



          Teen In Medical Dispute Sent To Foster Care
          February 24, 2014 5:32 PM
          WBZ-TV's Ken McLeod Ken MacLeod


          BOSTON (CBS) ? A Connecticut couple sobbed outside a Boston courtroom after a legal setback in their yearlong battle to regain custody of their daughter.

          The state of Massachusetts took charge of Justina Pelletier as her parents and doctors at Children?s Hospital continue to clash over her diagnosis and treatment. The teen?s mom broke down in court. Paramedics wheeled Linda Pelletier from the courthouse Monday afternoon minutes after she collapsed upon hearing a judge order her embattled teenaged daughter into foster care...

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          • #6
            Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

            Wow. Simply wow. I can't imagine how this isn't the leading national news story on every network. This story needs wider attention.

            Perhaps the Federal Department of Justice needs to investigate certain state officials here for violating the civil rights of this family?

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            • #7
              Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

              Perhaps the Federal Department of Justice needs to investigate certain state officials here for violating the civil rights of this family?
              I don't see any hope of resolution coming from there. In words taken from the most haunting book I've ever read:

              "But there is where the Gulag country begins, right next to us, two yards away from us."

              And the author of that book even addressed Harvard's class of 1978, for what it was worth:

              http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articl...synHarvard.php
              A World Split Apart ? Commencement Address Delivered At Harvard University, June 8, 1978
              Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn

              Solzhenitsyn's warning of Western decline is as relevant today as it was twenty-five years ago.

              I am sincerely happy to be here with you on the occasion of the 327th commencement of this old and illustrious university. My congratulations and best wishes to all of today's graduates.
              Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard

              Harvard's motto is "VERITAS." Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us as soon as our concentration begins to flag, all the while leaving the illusion that we are continuing to pursue it. This is the source of much discord. Also, truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter. A measure of truth is included in my speech today, but I offer it as a friend, not as an adversary.

              ...

              A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. The Western world has lost its civic courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, in each government, in each political party, and, of course, in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling and intellectual elites, causing an impression of a loss of courage by the entire society. There are many courageous individuals, but they have no determining influence on public life.

              Political and intellectual functionaries exhibit this depression, passivity, and perplexity in their actions and in their statements, and even more so in their self-serving rationales as to how realistic, reasonable, and intellectually and even morally justified it is to base state policies on weakness and cowardice. And the decline in courage, at times attaining what could be termed a lack of manhood, is ironically emphasized by occasional outbursts and inflexibility on the part of those same functionaries when dealing with weak governments and with countries that lack support, or with doomed currents which clearly cannot offer resistance. But they get tongue-tied and paralyzed when they deal with powerful governments and threatening forces, with aggressors and international terrorists.

              Must one point out that from ancient times a decline in courage has been considered the first symptom of the end?

              When the modern Western states were being formed, it was proclaimed as a principle that governments are meant to serve man and that man lives in order to be free and pursue happiness. (See, for example, the American Declaration of Independence.) Now at last during past decades technical and social progress has permitted the realization of such aspirations: the welfare state...
              Ah, the cowardly, materialistic welfare state, how well it takes of us. The Justina Pelletier saga seems only the tip of the iceberg:

              YouTube Video: Ella Card - "Slavery in the Name of Guardianship"

              Ella Card was deemed completely competent by a psychiatrist, but that didn't protect her assets from state "guardianship":

              https://www.facebook.com/Justia.New.York?filter=2

              http://www.estateofdenial.com/2011/1...r-her-freedom/
              Retired NYC school teacher fights for her freedom
              December 23, 2011
              ...
              On March 16, Brooklyn Judge Betsy Barros held one of five ex parte hearings on Card, appointing a temporary guardian. On April 26, Barros ignored Card?s durable power of attorney, irrevocable trust, and two quit claim deeds and read the still-very-much-alive woman?s will in open court before declaring her ?incapacitated.?

              The court transcript obtained contains this Kafkaesque passage: ?? the Incapacitated Person, Ella Card, vigorously contested the proceedings.?

              ?It felt like a hanging. I was the only one sticking up for my mother,? Card?s 43-year-old daughter Cindy told us. ?Every one of them standing there and allowing it knew my mother was not incapacitated.?

              Card was then placed under the near total control of a court-appointed guardian, The Vera Institute of Justice, located in the same Brooklyn courthouse. The Vera Institute of Justice?s website describes it as ?an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit center for justice policy and practice.? According to IRS records, $16.7 million of its $24 million annual funding comes from government grants.

              Card told The Washington Examiner that The Vera Institute of Justice promptly froze all of her assets (valued at approximately $1 million), including her teachers? pension, began collecting rent on the property she owned, and forced her to live in her own home without heat, hot water or access to her own money...
              Yes, this is how the state takes care of people:

              <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Linda Pelletier, the mother of Justine, passed out in court after they Ordered her to a nonmedical facility. <a href="http://t.co/cZawNLn10C">pic.twitter.com/cZawNLn10C</a></p>&mdash; Rev. Patrick Mahoney (@revmahoney) <a href="https://twitter.com/revmahoney/statuses/438035035179204608">February 24, 2014</a></blockquote>
              <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
              Last edited by Emily; March 26, 2014, 05:44 AM. Reason: Typo fix; embedded photo per Twitter
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              "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

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              • #8
                Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                Source: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/02/2...o-connecticut/


                Local
                DCF Working To Send Teen In Medical Dispute Back To Connecticut
                February 28, 2014 12:29 PM

                BOSTON (CBS) ? The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families confirmed Friday it?s working to send a teenager at the center of a bitter state custody dispute back to her home state of Connecticut.

                The agency also announced that Tufts Medical Center will soon begin overseeing the treatment of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier, an apparent victory for her parents...

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                • #9
                  Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                  http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle...M2L/story.html
                  ?Permanent? custody of Justina Pelletier awarded to Mass.
                  By Patricia Wen
                  | Globe Staff March 25, 2014
                  I hope this case can be appealed. I posted about another case below involving a rare medical condition that got very complex to diagnose after a bout of flu in a little boy:

                  Post-flu enteropathy leads to 9-yr-old's 'avalanche' of ailments

                  The mother was fortunately a medical doctor and professor who was able to navigate the system, (and it was not easy for her, either), to a much better resolution for her son. It was interesting that a specialist at Boston Children's Hospital was not receptive to doing a diagnostic procedure in contrast to other specialists who did then diagnose a rare choledochal cyst that they think was involved in a cascade of dysfunction set off by the flu infection.
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                  "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                  (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                  Never forget Excalibur.

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                  • #10
                    Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                    Source: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/...-case-outrage/

                    Judge's ruling in Justina Pelletier case an outrage
                    By Dr. Keith Ablow
                    Published March 26, 2014
                    FoxNews.com

                    Massachusetts Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Johnston injured every parent?s rights Tuesday when he awarded permanent custody of teenager Justina Pelletier to the state...

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                    • #11
                      Re: Teen being &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward (10 months now) after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                      Source: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/0...cmp=latestnews


                      Justina Pelletier's case: Sure, parents can make their kids sick
                      By Dr. Keith Ablow
                      The Mind of the News
                      Published March 28, 2014
                      FoxNews.com

                      Justina Pelletier, a 15-year-old, has been permanently removed from the custody of her parents and given to the State of Massachusetts by Massachusetts Juvenile Court Judge Joseph Johnston. He did so based on the opinion of doctors from Boston?s Children?s Hospital, who believe Justina?s parents have played a role in causing her to believe she is medically ill, when she is not?that they have kindled in her a ?somatoform disorder? in which bodily symptoms actually have purely psychological roots, not anatomic ones.

                      Even if Justina did have somatoform disorder (and experts at Boston?s New England Medical Center insist she does not), this is a watershed moment in the history of the state asserting power to obliterate parental rights. Why? Because millions of parents could one day be accused of putting in motion psychological dynamics that manifest themselves as psychiatric illness, leading parents to lose custody of their sons or daughters...

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                      • #12
                        Re: Teen &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward for a year after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                        http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014...ustody-battle/
                        Prominent Attorney Alan Dershowitz Says He?d ?Like to Help Out? Parents of Justina Pelletier in Custody Battle
                        Mar. 29, 2014 10:48pm Dave Urbanski
                        Prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz is offering to help the parents of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier reclaim custody of their daughter.

                        ?I?d like to help out?? the Harvard Law professor and media figure said during an appearance on ?Huckabee? Saturday night, noting he?s a member of the Massachusetts bar and could offer his legal expertise.

                        ?When you hear about a case like this you scratch your head and you say ?something else must be going on,?? he noted...
                        http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...rm_parent.html
                        The Sad, Scary Saga of Justina Pelletier
                        By Rachael Larimore

                        ...

                        Apparently the Pelletiers can be difficult people?they have yelled at the doctors and threatened DCF social workers, and they refused offers for Justina to be put in a long-term care facility closer to their home. (Justina was recently moved to a residential psychiatric facility in Framingham, Mass.) And they are not giving up: There are reports that they are filing a writ of habeas corpus for wrongful imprisonment. But if I were a parent who felt a hospital was interfering with my rights and harming my child, I can?t say that I would act any differently.
                        Amen.

                        ?An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.?
                        ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning


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                        Psychiatrist, neurologist, author
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                        "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                        (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                        Never forget Excalibur.

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                        • #13
                          Re: Teen &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward for a year after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                          http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/0...an-dershowitz/
                          Justine Pelletier family wants to take up Harvard Law Prof. Alan Dershowitz's offer to help
                          Published April 01, 2014
                          FoxNews.com

                          ...

                          Dershowitz, who said he had great respect for both hospitals, said he found it disturbing that the state would take custody of the child as a result of a dispute between two esteemed medical institutions.

                          ?Parents have a right to be wrong, as long as they?re acting reasonably," Dershowitz said. "And if two distinguished medical centers have different diagnoses, it should be the parents, not the state, that determines the course of treatment.?

                          Dershowitz also said a gag order imposed by the judge to stop the family from talking to the press was "without a doubt unconstitutional."..
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                          (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                          Never forget Excalibur.

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                          • #14
                            Re: Teen &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward for a year after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                            The article below by Mr. Goldcamp is really insightful.

                            http://www.svherald.com/content/comm...4/04/05/371943
                            GOLDCAMP: Justice and common sense abandoned

                            | Herald/Review

                            Sat, 04/05/2014 - 1:42pm

                            ...

                            Bill and Nancy Goldcamp live in Sierra Vista. Bill, who has cerebral palsy, is a diplomatic historian and a former political analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency. Nancy, his wife, is a former analyst and editor at the CIA.
                            http://homenewshere.com/tewksbury_to...9bb2963f4.html
                            Local Reps sign onto Pelletier family case
                            Posted: Saturday, April 5, 2014 10:37 am

                            By Jayne W. Miller News Editor

                            Lyons, Miceli join 33 other Massachusetts legislators

                            BOSTON ? Two local legislators join the House Republican Caucus and seven Democratic members in passing a resolution aimed at reuniting Connecticut teenager Justina Pelletier, 15, with her parents and out of the custody of Massachusetts' Department of Children and Family (DCF).

                            Jim Lyons, R, and Jim Miceli, D, both signed a resolution last week ?Acknowledging serious concerns regarding DCF's handling of the Justina Pelletier Case.?

                            ?What is happening in this case is absolutely one of the most alarming things that I've ever seen,? said Representative Jim Lyons. ?It is an outrage what is going on. It should alarm every parent in Massachusetts.?...
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                            "...there’s an obvious contest that’s happening between different sectors of the colonial ruling class in this country. And they would, if they could, lump us into their beef, their struggle." ---- Omali Yeshitela, African People’s Socialist Party

                            (My posts are not intended as advice or professional assessments of any kind.)
                            Never forget Excalibur.

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                            • #15
                              Re: Teen &quot;held captive&quot; in psych ward for a year after seeking treatment for flu at Boston Children's Hospital- Placed in foster care

                              Source: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/05/06...cmp=latestnews

                              Hospital transfer for Justina Pelletier, teen in custody battle, has parents fuming
                              By Cristina Corbin
                              Published May 06, 2014
                              FoxNews.com


                              The teen at the center of a custody battle triggered by differing diagnoses by two Massachusetts hospitals will be transferred from the Bay State to a facility in her home state of Connecticut, according to Massachusetts officials, but her parents are not welcoming the decision.

                              Secretary of Health and Human Services John Polanowicz said Monday the "reunification" plan calls for 15-year-old Justina Pelletier to be transferred to a facility in Thompson, Conn., as the first step in a process that could eventually return her to the custody of her parents. A judge will make the final decision to return Justina to her family.

                              The Connecticut facility "will provide services to Justina with the ultimate goal of her returning home as soon as possible," writes John Polanowicz, secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, to Massachusetts lawmakers in a letter obtained by FoxNews.com.

                              The announcement, however, has infuriated the girl's parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier, of West Hartford, who claim the move is "not at all meant as a step toward regaining custody" and called it "barbaric."

                              "They?re just shipping her off to another psychiatric facility," Lou Pelletier told FoxNews.com Tuesday. "It?s disgusting."...

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