[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre update.

The Republican leads as usual on the latest. Now the details surrounding the nanny DSS who own Haleigh Poutre as if she were a desk, are kept jealously from the prying eyes of the public even longer. How bizarre can it get? Once failing to kill the poor kid, they shield her condition from all, even concerned family members as if she were a Top Secret National Security project.

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SPRINGFIELD - Some documents in the Hampden Superior Court child-abuse case against Jason D. Strickland will become public, but records from a Juvenile Court case involving victim Haleigh Poutre remain sealed.

In a ruling yesterday, Judge James J. Collins delayed release of the documents until Monday to allow for appeals.

His decision was the latest event in a high-profile case alleging assault and battery on a child with serious injury to Haleigh, Strickland's 13-year-old stepdaughter...................

Court records to be released

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[8mmMauser]

Haleigh Poutre, more...

Governor Deval Patrick today will create the state's first Office of the Child Advocate, a watchdog with power to investigate allegations of child abuse and neglect and to monitor state agencies that provide services to children, state officials said yesterday.

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"Finally," said MaryLou Sudders, president of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. "You need someone who can ask tough questions and has the backing of the governor. The office of child advocate is in response to a series of tragedies and legislative oversight hearings. There's no question about it."

The state agency that handles foster care, the Department of Social Services, has come under fire for several high-profile tragedies in recent years. In 2005, 4-year-old Dontel Jeffers died at the hands of his foster mother. Haleigh Poutre was left comatose in 2005 after a beating by her adoptive mother, who was under DSS supervision. And 4-year-old Rebecca Riley of Hull died after being given an overdose of psychotropic medications in 2006 by her parents, who had been monitored by DSS.

Patrick to create a child advocate

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[Sun]

“Once failing to kill the poor kid, they shield her condition from all, ..”

I wonder why they do that.

[Dante3]

This is bizarre and this is cruel.