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Teen Now in Wheelchair After Gov't Snatches Her from Family

shodan

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On Monday, Mat Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel, appeared before a juvenile court to defend the family of Justina Pelletier against abuse by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF).

15-year-old ice-skating competitor was taken from her parents by DCF, held for over a year, and is now confined to a wheelchair because of maltreatment for a metabolic disorder--simply because her family questioned a diagnosis.

cont. http://www.charismanews.com/us/4290...air-after-government-snatches-her-from-family

Glenn Beck: Help Family of 15-Year-Old at the Center of Boston Children’s Controversy Before She ‘Wastes Away and Dies’ - See more at: http://www.christianlifenews.com/he...she-wastes-away-and-dies#sthash.e0MHjjbM.dpuf
 
Even The Huffington Post is on this story with malice toward the hospital and the Massachusetts DCF. This is about nothing more than medical arrogance, and sadly many of the self-designated "children's hospitals" around the country have this same attitude. Doctors at these hospitals seem to think their alleged expertise in children's diseases gives them the right to be cold, distant, and arrogant. Their nurses soon develop the exact same attitude. Perhaps in other cities the local Children's Hospital does not fit into this category, but Children's Mercy in Kansas City certainly does, and if Boston's is like this, perhaps it is time to investigate these pediatric hospitals, as well as the child welfare agencies, and ferret out the arrogance and stupidity.
 

preachinjesus

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This has been a horrible story to watch and grieve over. It is the spectre of government mismanagement.
 

Gina B

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The judge now gave the state permanent custody of the girl. Of course, the state also very recently "identified" a hospital they think can provide the girl with good care. It happens to be the same one the parents were taking her too. Odd, with the claim her treatment there constituted "medical abuse."
Sounds like they're punishing the family for proving them wrong. Typical of that agency...

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/...-remain-in-custody-massachusetts-judge-rules/
 
We are now finding out Justina Pelletier is not the only victim of this arrogance and elitism displayed in her case by the Massachusetts DCF.
The DCF will pretend to help you, when they are really gathering evidence to take your children. It's a new police state out there.
The DCF will try to get you to talk. SHUT UP!! Everything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law to take and keep your children.
DCF agents will abuse and traumatize your children themselves.
The DCF will try to get one parent to say incriminating things about the other, especially about domestic abuse.
The DCF will try to get your child to make ‘disclosures' about you, using manipulation, coercion, and fear.
The DCF will try to make sure you get a lawyer who will work with them, not against them.
After DCF takes your children, the court must give you a hearing within 72 hours. They rarely do. At the hearing, DCF will rarely meet the legal standard for keeping custody of your children, but will do so anyway.
The DCF agent will try to get into your home to do an assessment, but will use the evidence gathered there against you to take your children.
The DCF has a network of "mandated reporters" everywhere your child is, to snitch on you. All helping professionals are required to report you to DCF if they suspect abuse; The people you think will help you will now betray you, even clergy.
If DCF takes your children, they will keep them a year, and try to adopt them out. They earn up to hundreds of thousands of dollars per year per child taken, and keep a lot of cronies in work.
The DCF will try to get you to sign a "service plan" that will incriminate you, and help them get information to make their case against you.
The DCf will withhold key records that you need to make your case, even though they are required by law to give them to you.
The DCF allows you to challenge their findings of abuse - But their own agents do the review, usually a year or two later, and call it a "Fair Hearing".
The DCF will rarely let you visit your children, and will not let you show them affection when you do.
Although the law requires the DCF to place your children with relatives, if available, they will try to stop it.
The DCF will keep you from any legal challenge to their custody of your children for a year or more.
If the DCF can't get you for abuse or neglect, it will get you for not stopping abuse and neglect by your partner i.e., "Safety issues" or "Putting them at risk".
If you do not "suck up" to the social worker, you will never get your children back.
Each of these abuses is detailed fully on the website -- these are just the headings.

Incidentally, the Massachusetts DCF has an "unofficial motto": "Men are abusers, women are victims, the children are ours." It is what they believe, even though, particularly in the Pelletier case, they've proven themselves incompetent to care for children.
 
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