[circlecity]

"Are they waiting for her to die so the case becomes moot?"

Actually I think the judge is trying to keep the case out of the court of appeals. Only final judgments are appealable so the judge is just arbitrarily avoiding issuing a final order to keep the family from being able to take the case up on appeal.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

A good point.

But you can only delay so long before something breaks.

[Valpal1]

At first I wondered if the judge was just lazy and incompetent. He can’t be bothered to get organized and write his decision.

Now I think the multiple delays means he’s looking for the right arguments to permanently remove her from her parent’s custody. If he was going to return custody, he’d just do it and be done with the controversy.

Also because DCF promised to transfer medical care to Tufts, but then it never happened, using the delayed decision as the excuse.

I’m worried that DCF and the judge have decided to make the kidnapping permanent.