Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:45 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Haleigh Poutre was the victim of child abuse and was nearly killed via euthanasia when Massachusetts officials gave up on her after she entered a coma. Now Poutre, once termed "brain dead" by doctors, continues to improve and is speaking a few words, her grandmother says.
Sandra Sudyka, the girl's biological grandmother, is no longer allowed to visit her granddaughter and now says she is ready to speak to the media about Poutre's condition.
She told The Republican newspaper that she last saw Poutre on July 18 but indicated she was "doing well."
"She was bright-eyed and smiling. She is always responsive to us," Sudyka explained.
Department of Social Services had asked Sudyka not to talk with reporters about Haleigh, but since they will no longer allow her and Haleigh's biological mother, Allison Avrett, to visit the 12 year-old, she said she's going to talk to the media.
"I decided since they broke the deal, I am going to talk. People should know how well she is doing," Sudyka told the newspaper.
"They don't want people to know how she is doing after they wanted to pull the plug," Sudyka said.
DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro declined an interview with The Republican but said that the visiting privileges have been suspended, not terminated.
Haleigh first began speaking in June, her grandmother told the newspaper.
"I was saying to her 'I love you,' and she was trying to say 'love' and it came out as a vibration...'ove,'" Sudyka said.
Sudyka, who is working with an attorney to adopt the girl, said she has said hello, responds to comments and questions, speaks nonverbally and is able to write her name. Haleigh can't walk and is confined to a wheelchair.
Avrett, Poutre's biological mother, lost custody of her daughter after physically abusing her. Poutre was put into a foster home where her adoptive parents also abused her. Her adopted mother committed suicide after abusing Poutre so much she had to be hospitalized.
DSS took Poutre into custody and when she appeared to slip into a coma, the agency asked the state Supreme Court for permission to take her life. That's when Poutre began responding.
Poutre has been receiving physical, speech and occupational therapy since January 26 at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton.
Gov. Mitt Romney appointed a commission to look into how the state failed to properly handle the girl's case.
(CBS4) FT. LAUDERDALE An art teacher at a Fort Lauderdale charter school is facing indefinite suspension after showing a self-made documentary on ‘good and evil’ to a group of 10 and 11 year old students, featuring gory abortion scenes. Some students and parents complained, and the school objected, but teacher Marc Greenblum says he has no regrets in showing the graphic video.
Teacher Suspended: Showed Kids Abortion Film
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RE: above:
Oops, was a thread by paltz. Thanks, wagglebee.
Hermann Goering
Michael Schiavo 
Gordon Gekko 
Josef Goebbels 
Moe Howard 
Now, now. This fellow can't be sinister. He doesn't LOOK sinister. And that settles that :-)
The same could be said about Saddam and his sons.
I thought Saddam's sons looked very peaceful and cooperative the last I saw them, which was in a morgue photo. Just goes to show you that bad lives can take a turn for the better -- sometimes with the assistance of the U.S. Army.
I think the top gold stars represent 10 million murders each. From there, each ribbon is around 1 million each. Certainly we can send Michael Schiavo some sort of honorary medal for killing off his wife for all to see.
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It is hard to believe this man is not behind bars, but his job must remind him of it. Looks like he got his prescriptions refilled, you know, the ones he never took.
Well then we need to add a female to the list who is responsible for at least 50 million murders worldwide.
Eugenicist Icon Margaret Sanger
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Honey, I'm home!
No offense to Moe, whose hair -- unlike Mikey's -- was meant to be funny.
From the look in his eyes, he should be in a padded cell.
On second thought, why waste money on padding.
Chris Matthews worked Charlie Crist over pretty good and compared one of his answers on crme to a Marion Barry answer.
Of course, all three were for the killing of the disabled, i.e. Terri Schiavo. The next governor will be governor kevorkian, no matter who wins but Jim Davis won the debate tonight. Crist gave the same vapid responses and at the end, he said he would "go to work every day with a HAPPY HEART." (for you t'wit).
C-SPAN TONIGHT AT 10:00 pm est. (watch the dem beat the pubbie and the reform candidate). Charlie Crist said tonight that he stayed out of Terri Schiavo matter. Hah! There was an investigation, his current advisor Clay Roberts told the investigator Mitch Turner to close the file. Said file was returned to a third party by mistake that has Crist's fingerprints on it. Had to protect his hero, Judge Greer. It's funny if Judge Whittemore double crossed Crist by letting Linn be in the debate.
Bad people turn on each other. JIM DAVIS WON TONIGHT. Watch the polls. He's going to be the next governor. Crist and his happy heart will have to beat somewhere else.
And I told you not to spend all that [expletive deleted] money getting your hair dyed, you [expletive deleted]! Now I'm going to show you what happens when you [expletive deleted] cross me!
Watch the Fla guv debate on c-span tonight at 10:00 pm est. It was almost a saturday night live skit.
Yeah, but wasn't Terri's problem that she drank several gallons of ice tea in the course of a couple minutes?
Well, uh, the Christian coalition didn't do a very good job of controlling the GOP if that's what Danforth thinks. We have two new supreme court justices - that's all. The GOP hasn't done anything else because the courts overrule the congress and the prez all the time and they don't even care.
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