Haleigh Turns 12 Today (Haleigh Poutre, abuse victim: Send a Card)
Posted on 02/01/2006 7:29:10 AM PST by Ohioan from Florida
In the court (and courts) of life and death, a little 11-year-old Massachusetts girl named Haleigh Poutre could be the next Terri Schiavo. For those who have not heard the tragic story, Haleigh was beaten nearly to death last September, allegedly by her adoptive mother and stepfather. The beating left her unconscious and barely clinging to life.
Within a week or so of the beating, her doctors had written her off. They apparently told Haleigh's court-appointed guardian, Harry Spence, that she was "virtually brain dead." Even though he had never visited her, Spence quickly went to court seeking permission to remove her respirator and feeding tube. The court agreed, a decision affirmed recently by the supreme court of Massachusetts.
And so, no doubt with the best of intentions, a little girl who had already suffered so much was stripped by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of even the chance to fight to stay alive. If she didn't stop breathing when the respirator was removed, which doctors expected, she would slowly dehydrate to death.
Close Call
Then came the unexpected:
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Amber Hildebrand, former media director of the Family Research Council, has joined Maximum Impact Public Relations as senior publicist. Foremost on her immediate agenda: promoting the new Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation, an organization founded by the late woman's family to end the practice of human euthanasia all over the world.
8mm
Then go up the page and read the item titled "Bronze Bandit" -- funny!
Notice the first para disinformation -- as I recall anyway, Haleigh was called "virtually" PVS or some such weasel word, meaning she wasn't PVS. Good bet they exaggerated her condition because they couldn't wait to chop her up and put her vital organs up for sale.
Now this little girl can respond yes and no, and make emotions. Doesn't sound like someone who is dead does it? Not to me for sure! This precious little girl was almost murdered by the state. Sickening!
"they knew this was coming and the hospitals should have been evacuated"
Yes, they knew it was coming and saved their own hides. Now, instead of taking responsibilty their busy pointing fingers at everyone else. Sad lack of leadership.
I have heard of brass monkeys but not that one. Guess some things are so famous, people have them bronzed.
"We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way," said DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro.
Monteiro said DSS officials tried to contact Avrett's lawyer, Wendy Murphy, on Thursday. Murphy said she received no messages from the agency.
Hahahahaha!
Of course, "famous" does not imply unusual size. These things are pretty much alike, except Brits' are just a bit smaller, if I heard right.
That was the bureaucrats' idea of how to reward an innocent child for all the abuse and beating she suffered. This was the same agency that assigned the foster parents who abused the girl, scalded her feet in hot water, burned her with lighted cigarettes, and in the end, beat her nearly to death with a baseball bat. The same agency that managed to whitewash 16 prior reports of Haleigh being abused.
There is no accounting for state child protection agencies.
I guess it's just as well that I forgot to call my tv provider then. What a shame...
I think it's pretty rotten that Haleigh's mom can't see her on her birthday. God, what is wrong with those people?
Yeah, Bush's fault. Whitey's fault. I really love how they're trying to fix it so the refugees can vote for them. It's a horrible lack of leadership. Everyone knows that LA is corrupt, but the sheer level of corruption cost the lives of a lot of people. I have always wanted to go to New Orleans, just to check out the historical homes and cemetaries, and of course the restaurants. Not during Mardi Gras, of course.
Wendy Murphy is an attorney in private practice specializing in the representation of women and children victims of violence. A former Middlesex County prosecutor, she founded and directs the Victim Advocacy and Research Group, a volunteer legal program that has provided free legal services to victims of violence, rape crisis centers and battered womens’ shelters since 1992. Attorney Murphy served as Mary Joe Frug Professor of Law at the New England School of Law where she remains a faculty member and supervises the internet-based “Sexual Violence Legal News” and “Judicial Language” Projects. She has generated several test cases to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to develop privacy rights for victims and has authored numerous articles and lectures extensively on the criminal justice system, sexual violence, child abuse, and related legal topics. Attorney Murphy was appointed last year to serve on the Massachusetts Governor's Crime Commission and the Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence. She is a legal analyst for CBS News and CNN and has appeared on NBC, ABC, MSNBC, FoxNews, Court TV and NPR. She received a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D. from New England School of Law.
That report was uncertain, so I can't really say whether the program has been cancelled. Watch the listings.
They're delicious ice cold, and served in a tall glass ;-) ( you wouldn't want to bronze these monkeys)
Wendy Murphy has a very impressive resume. If anyone can deal with CPS, it's her.
Okey dokey. I still don't have the channel, though.
Nor I. It's cable. WealthTV. They have a web site here -- WealthTV -- try poking around. You can get a preview of the 2/26 2 hour show.
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