Haleigh and Rebecca
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The Bay State came perilously close to flunking a federal watchdog group’s child protection study and it was only after several months of virtually knocking down the doors of DSS workers and local pols that its grade was raised to a D-, the study’s authors said yesterday.
Only nine states fared worse than Massachusetts in the study, titled “State Secrecy and Child Deaths in the U.S.,” which is scheduled to be released today.
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The study highlights Massachusetts as “crying out for reform,” noting the cases of: Haleigh Poutre, who was beaten into a coma while in foster care after DSS dismissed more than a dozen allegations of abuse; Rebecca Riley, whose parents are charged with manslaughter in connection with her allegedly prescription drug-related death at age 4 in Dec. 2006; and the Middleboro 7-year-old who was allegedly burned and beaten by his mother’s boyfriend despite several warning signs to DSS.
Nev Moore, a longtime DSS critic who has filed legislation to reform DSS, said the agency operates in a vacuum.
“They can’t keep investigating themselves, and that’s what’s happening,” she said. “You need external oversight.”
Bay State ’crying out for reform’
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I will buy nothing from eBy.
Haters on the left try their best to be hilarious but since words to them are mere tools, they have no clue as to the meaning of humor.
As Puffington Host puffs cheeky droolings over whatever is left of the GOP, (Anyway all that is left of GOP is left and not much right, IMO...) they just can't help invoking Terri's Legacy, no joke to them.
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Distractions
When the Terri Schiavo case came to prominence in 2005 there was some really bad news for the Busbaby Administration starting to come out regarding Iraq. Using Mrs. Schiavo as political cover, the Republican Party energized their base and created a major distraction in the media. Sen. Bill Frist of Tennessee, a doctor, used only a short video of Mrs. Schiavo to diagnose her as a cognizant woman who should not have her feeding tube removed.
At the same time, the so-called "Schiavo Memo" was leaked to the media. It was written by Brian Darling, the legal counsel to Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez. It suggested the Schiavo case offered "a great political issue" that would appeal to the party's core supporters and could be used against Sen. Bill Nelson because he had refused to co-sponsor Terri's law which was a bill that congress cooked up to try to use to circumvent the courts.
When the feeding tube was removed for the third and final time Mrs. Schiavo passed away. The autopsy on her brain showed that she had lived the last five years of her life in a persistent vegetative state. Frist's grandstanding medical diagnosis had been completely wrong. The Bushbaby, Brotherbush, Florida governor at the time, Darth Cheney nor Doc Frist ever bothered to apologize............
Learn From History or Repeat It
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