[nonny]

Do they have three other healthy children at home?

[mrgmrg]

Not at all surprised to discover news reports about the child being supposedly ripped away from her parents by an overzealous hospital (one of the most respected in the country) were false.

[Tetto]

Originally Posted by Stratford, Ct. Resident

You obviously didn't read the judge's ruling.

"Tufts doctors had been treating Pelletier for mitochondrial disease, a group of rare genetic disorders affecting cellular energy production, but physicians at Children’s concluded that her symptoms were largely psychiatric in origin. Her parents rejected the new diagnosis, and when they tried to move the girl back to Tufts, the Children’s team notified the state that it suspected the parents of medical child abuse."

You dont see anything wrong with this? The PARENTS disagreed with Boston's diagnosis so they are incapable of custody? This is insane on so many levels and nobody seems to think its a big deal. Yes the father swore at the staff, so what? What else woud you expect a powerless parent to do after having his daughter held captive? Either the parents are religious freaks who refuse any kind of medical intervention (which obviously they're not) or the state of MA and CT are just too damed powerful and need to be brought down a notch or two. This never should have happened like it did.

[mrgmrg]

The Boston doctors, some of the best in the world, believed that the parents suffered from Muchausen-by-proxy or a similar disease, which is a psychiatric condition in which someone intentionally seeks attention from doctors by inducing or fabricating medical problems in another person. It wasn't simply a matter of a difference in opinion regarding a diagnosis. Also, the information you are getting in news reports is primarily from parents, since the hospitals can't release information without violating the law.

Absent evidence of a valid reason to disbelieve the ruling of a judge--the only qualified 3rd party who has reviewed the confidential medical files at issue in this case--I can't think of any reason to believe the parents at this point.

[Stratford, Ct. Resident]

Originally Posted by Tetto

"Tufts doctors had been treating Pelletier for mitochondrial disease, a group of rare genetic disorders affecting cellular energy production, but physicians at Children’s concluded that her symptoms were largely psychiatric in origin. Her parents rejected the new diagnosis, and when they tried to move the girl back to Tufts, the Children’s team notified the state that it suspected the parents of medical child abuse."

You dont see anything wrong with this? The PARENTS disagreed with Boston's diagnosis so they are incapable of custody? This is insane on so many levels and nobody seems to think its a big deal. Yes the father swore at the staff, so what? What else woud you expect a powerless parent to do after having his daughter held captive? Either the parents are religious freaks who refuse any kind of medical intervention (which obviously they're not) or the state of MA and CT are just too damed powerful and need to be brought down a notch or two. This never should have happened like it did.

I know that you can read.

Read the full decision issued by the judge.

Read what the judge wrote regarding CT-DCF.