Hospital Holds Teen For 9 Months, Won’t Let Parents Take Her Home

[libertyjam]

http://benswann.com/hospital-traps-t...take-her-home/

Posted by Kristin Tate November 21, 2013

Boston’s Children’s Hospital has taken custody of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier, against her parents’ will. The teen has been there for nine months now.

Years ago, doctors diagnosed Justina with mitochondrial disease, which causes loss of muscle control. Despite this diagnosis, Justina was able to live a happy, and relatively normal life with her family in Connecticut. She was very active and enjoyed various sports such as ice skating.
When she got the flu last February, she was taken to Boston Children’s Hospital.
Justina hasn’t left since.
Doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital claimed that Justina has somatoform disorder, not mitochondrial disease. Somatoform disorder is a mental disorder — not a physical one, like mitochondrial disease.
After this diagnosis was made, the girl’s parents wanted to bring their daughter home — but officials would not allow that. Lou and Linda Pelletier were escorted out of the hospital by security personnel.
Only four days later, they found out they had lost custody of their daughter due to “both parents’ resistance towards recommended treatment plans.” They are heartbroken and furious.
“It is kidnapping,” Lou Pelletier said.
Lou and Linda insist that they were never “resistant” towards treatment for Justina. They had closely followed medical procedures and medication dosages for their daughter, as recommended by her physicians.
Dr. Mark Korson of Tufts Medical Center was one of Justina’s prior physicians. In an email, he said, “I am dismayed. … It feels like Justina’s treatment team is out to prove the diagnosis at all costs. … The (Boston Children’s Hospital) team has demanded that Justina be removed from the home. … This represents the most severe and intrusive intervention a patient can undergo … for a clinical hunch.”
During her nine months at Boston’s Children’s Hospital, Justina has been sending letters to her parents, hidden in origami artwork. One of her notes said, “I know you trust in me. Don’t forget it. I love you more than everything in the whole world. Justina.”
According to FOXCT, The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) has set guidelines for Justina’s parents, dictating when they can and cannot see their daughter. Currently, the parents are allowed two short phone calls and one hour-long visit per week.
Justina’s parents say they will continue fighting to regain custody of their child.
“Hospitals, be it this scenario or big picture, cannot just hide behind DCF to do their dirty work. It’s beyond any wildest nightmare that you could think of,” Lou said.

[libertyjam]

‘It’s Kidnapping’: Hospital Takes Custody of Teen Because Her Parents Were ‘Too Active in Pursuing’ Her Care

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...uing-her-care/

The family had argued that the procedures and medications given to their daughter were under the recommendation and guidance of other physicians. One of them was Tufts Medical Center specialist Dr. Mark Korson. WTIC couldn’t speak with Korson, but the Pelletiers provided the local news station with an email sent from the doctor to their attorney.
“I am dismayed. … It feels like Justina’s treatment team is out to prove the diagnosis at all costs. … The (Boston Children’s Hospital) team has demanded that Justina be removed from the home. … This represents the most severe and intrusive intervention a patient can undergo … for a clinical hunch,” Korson wrote in the email.

[angelatc]

Good Lord. It appears they're possibly, and I do mean possibly, guilty of getting bad medical advice?


Again - possibly:

Dr. Amel Karaa of Massachusetts General Hospital, says conditions like mitochondrial disorder commonly lead to confusion for health care providers.

She told Fox news: 'A lot of social cases have been reported where the children were taken away from their parents by social services and the hospital because the medical team thought that the parents were causing this to their child.'


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So at this point you have two sets of doctors in a pissing match?

[donnay]

They are stealing children left and right in this country because parents are researching and educating themselves. This is a disgusting display of true medical tyranny! I hope the people who constantly defend this intrusive medical cabal never have to go through it themselves one day.

My God what have we allowed?

[asurfaholic]

Ha, they were escorted out?

Hmmft. Let them think they will just walk ME out. Ha.

[DamianTV]

They are stealing children left and right in this country because parents are researching and educating themselves. This is a disgusting display of true medical tyranny! I hope the people who constantly defend this intrusive medical cabal never have to go through it themselves one day.

My God what have we allowed?

What enables them to behave in such a manner where what Govt can do is no longer even influenced by the People? I'd have to say their ability to Print Money out of thin air!

[69360]

Why are the parents taking this lying down? Try and do that to my kid and see what happens. When it comes to my kids I don't care about the courts or the law, I would get them back at all costs.

[Anti Federalist]

You own nothing Mundane.


No release for Conn. teen caught in hospital dispute

By Neil Swidey and Patricia Wenn

December 21, 2013

http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle...XdK/story.html

[UtahApocalypse]

$#@! like this should be the cause of a hospital shooting.

[Anti Federalist]

Ha, they were escorted out?

Hmmft. Let them think they will just walk ME out. Ha.

Cops will be called.

SWAT will be called.

They will kill you dead.

[phill4paul]

Cops will be called.

SWAT will be called.

They will kill you dead.

And when it is said and done YOU were the $#@!. The malcontent. The crazy. The example. The positive reinforcement.

[Pericles]

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[Anti Federalist]

And when it is said and done YOU were the $#@!. The malcontent. The crazy. The example. The positive reinforcement.

Exactly.

[Pericles]

And when it is said and done YOU were the $#@!. The malcontent. The crazy. The example. The positive reinforcement.

Not if you kill enough of them, so that you and yours are the only ones left standing.

[rambone]

Parents lose custody of teen after seeking 2nd medical opinion; girl indefinitely detained in psych ward | Police State USA

[Working Poor]

Just wait until they get the bill...

[LibertyEagle]

I hope to see a HUGE lawsuit on the horizon.

[tod evans]

I hope to see a HUGE lawsuit on the horizon.

Meanwhile a child is locked in the psych ward against her parents wishes.

Lawsuits take both time and money, I'm of the opinion that drastic measures are called for.

Government caused this problem and waiting on government to fix it while a child is being traumatized doesn't seem right.

[LibertyEagle]

Meanwhile a child is locked in the psych ward against her parents wishes.

Lawsuits take both time and money, I'm of the opinion that drastic measures are called for.

Government caused this problem and waiting on government to fix it while a child is being traumatized doesn't seem right.

A jury of your peers, is not the "government". Also, getting the laws changed such that a hospital could ever do something like this again seems to me to be a rational position.

[LibertyEagle]

double post

[qh4dotcom]

Just curious.....who is going to pay the bill for the 10 months that the teenager is there?

and what happens when the teenager turns 18?

[donnay]

The hospital is probably pumping this poor child with psychotropic drugs. I pray God protects her!

[tod evans]

A jury of your peers, is not the "government". Also, getting the laws changed such that a hospital could ever do something like this again seems to me to be a rational position.

I'm not aware of any state that permits jury trials in child custody cases are you?

Judges and "child advocates" are most definitely government employees whose primary concern is not for a childs welfare but for their own continued employment..

[thoughtomator]

They found a highly profitable revenue stream and they'll be damned if they give it up.

[donnay]

]I'm not aware of any state that permits jury trials in child custody cases are you?[/B]

Judges and "child advocates" are most definitely government employees whose primary concern is not for a childs welfare but for their own continued employment..

Great point. Meanwhile they can kidnap whomever the hell they want. Just us!

[osan]

This is an act of warfare against sovereigns.

I am so glad mine are adults and able to do their own thing. Were I in those parents' situation I would get her out by force. I would do ANYTHING I felt necessary to regain my child's presence at home. Those people are criminals and to kill them pursuant to the release of my child would be justifiable as acts of defense of life and limb.

It gets worse by the day. It is astonishing.

[Pericles]

The hospital is probably pumping this poor child with psychotropic drugs. I pray God protects her!

You may depend upon it.

[tommyrp12]

I also live in the socialist paradise known as the common wealth. Let me tell you, you have not lived until you have been part of a state sanctioned kidnapping. Poor child, it must suck ,knowing their is no due process or rhyme or reason behind being taken away ,and yet being held as a ward. I had my knee bashed in and was drugged for resisting and I guess insulting the intelligence of a a-hole with a doctorate degree I only did 5 weeks in hospital custody.

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[LibertyEagle]

I'm not aware of any state that permits jury trials in child custody cases are you?

Judges and "child advocates" are most definitely government employees whose primary concern is not for a childs welfare but for their own continued employment..

Good point.

[Christian Liberty]

What enables them to behave in such a manner where what Govt can do is no longer even influenced by the People? I'd have to say their ability to Print Money out of thin air!

Quite frankly, and this may not be popular even here, but its an unwillingness to put a bullet in kidnapper's heads that leads to this. The government can have my money, I don't like it, but I won't kill for it. But if they ever did this to anyone in my family, some people would be getting shot.