[shhrubbery!]

Why hasn't the DCF been involved before now? I didn't think they were involved the last time the feeding tube was removed for six days, were they

A question like that was asked at the news conference.

A DCF official answered that DCF has to respond to a specific complaint -- they don't just go around looking for problems.

I believe DCF received a "hotline" complaint sometime in the last couple of months.

I may be wrong, since I couldn't hear the entire press conference too well (due to that idiot Shep Smith's butting in with BREAKING NEWS); but I heard someone say later that the complaint was made by Mayo Clinic neurologist Dr. William Cheshire (the doctor who has now stated in a sworn affidavit that Terris is NOT in PVS, but is rather "minimally conscious").

[maryz]

Apparently they tried to intervene before and Greer wouldn't let them. The item below, which I found on the Jurist website, was dated March 10; I would assume they've been trying to get their ducks in a row in a way he couldn't do anything since:

AP is reporting that a judge has rejected a bid by the Florida's Department of Children and Families to intervene in the Terri Schiavo right-to-die case. The Department had sought an additional 60-day stay [JURIST report] of the removal of Schiavo's feeding tube so it could investigate allegations of "abuse, neglect or exploitation" by her husband, Michael Schiavo.

[truthluva]

Thanks for the response. I guess that makes sense. I'm just a little surprised that someone didn't file a complaint last time.