Allison Avrett, who gave up custody of Haleigh four years ago, has been allowed by the DSS to visit Haleigh twice a month since September. At that point the 11-year-old girl from Westfield, near Springfield, was allegedly beaten into a coma by her adoptive mother and stepfather.
Murphy said it was ''unconscionable" that Avrett cannot tell the public about Haleigh when DSS Commissioner Harry Spence and his staff have publicly said, as recently as last week, that Haleigh was more alert and even picking up toys on command after having been declared ''virtually brain dead" by doctors.
Injured girl's mother seeks to speak out
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Boston, MA (PRWEB) February 2, 2006 -- Not Dead Yet, the national disability rights group, is calling for an investigation into the allegedly shoddy medicine that led to a court order for the removal of life-support from Haleigh Poutre just days after her admission with a severe brain injury. She is now responsive and interactive four months after being declared "virtually brain dead" and in an "irreversible coma." If the court order had not been appealed (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Docket #SJC-09629), Haleigh Poutre would now be dead.
Disability Advocates: Poutre Investigation Must Look Beyond DSS
Also this.....
As evidence, they point to kids like Nick Prefontaine, a Shrewsbury teen who was in a coma for two weeks after a snowboarding accident in 2003, and learned to walk and talk again at Franciscan.
Child rehab center offers hope for Haleigh
And this.......
The case of Haleigh Poutre is one of the worst to emerge from the Department of Social Services in years.
Countdown on MSNBC tonight, didn't catch the time:
"Michael Schiavo tells how he plans to fight the politicians who used Terri's life."
Didn't you know the freedom of speech is on the endangered rights list in Massachusetts?
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