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Updates on Haleigh's condition......

BOSTON - Haleigh Poutre is receiving physical, occupational and speech therapy on a daily basis, according to the attending physician for the 11-year-old.

A spokesman for the Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton, where Haleigh is now receiving treatment, said he could not add to the statement that was released by the hospital yesterday and approved by the state Department of Social Services.

The statement also says that Haleigh "remains medically stable."(snip

Haleigh's biological mother now has permission to visit her daughter without first having to apply to the state for permission each time, Murphy said.

Haleigh getting physical therapy

8mm

743 posted on 02/11/2006 4:42:03 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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An 11-year-old is beaten into a coma by her adoptive mother (her biological aunt) and stepfather. At first, doctors declare her "virtually brain dead." Not a single one of the sixteen accusations of abuse beforehand are verified, so Haleigh Poutre becomes a victim.

Who's to blame?

Many say the Department of Social Services. But the DSS head says they did "absolutely nothing wrong." Even Haleigh's doctors were fooled into believing her wounds were self-inflicted, he says.

Faulting DSS, and sharing the blame

8mm

744 posted on 02/11/2006 4:47:45 AM PST by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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>> without first having to apply to the state for permission each time

[EXPLETIVE DELETED] on the DSS, now and forevermore.

748 posted on 02/11/2006 5:20:40 AM PST by T'wit (Martyr applicants: You will have only 72 virgins to last for all eternity. Deflower sparingly.)
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She's getting better. Praise the Lord!


755 posted on 02/11/2006 7:20:37 AM PST by TheSpottedOwl (Support the fence....grow a Victory Garden!)
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Ping to 743!!


767 posted on 02/11/2006 1:23:47 PM PST by Ohioan from Florida (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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