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Here is another take on the story from CBS4.

"We've established a visiting schedule months ago and we're going to keep it that way," said DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro.

Monteiro said DSS officials tried to contact Avrett's lawyer, Wendy Murphy, on Thursday. Murphy said she received no messages from the agency.

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A fairly recent [2004] bio on Wendy Murphy. It seems obvious she's a big leaguer. That is unexpected good news, as is, also, her professional concern for the victims of abuse. After the hell Haleigh has been through, she needs the best quality help she can get.

Wendy Murphy is an attorney in private practice specializing in the representation of women and children victims of violence. A former Middlesex County prosecutor, she founded and directs the Victim Advocacy and Research Group, a volunteer legal program that has provided free legal services to victims of violence, rape crisis centers and battered womens’ shelters since 1992. Attorney Murphy served as Mary Joe Frug Professor of Law at the New England School of Law where she remains a faculty member and supervises the internet-based “Sexual Violence Legal News” and “Judicial Language” Projects. She has generated several test cases to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to develop privacy rights for victims and has authored numerous articles and lectures extensively on the criminal justice system, sexual violence, child abuse, and related legal topics. Attorney Murphy was appointed last year to serve on the Massachusetts Governor's Crime Commission and the Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence. She is a legal analyst for CBS News and CNN and has appeared on NBC, ABC, MSNBC, FoxNews, Court TV and NPR. She received a B.A. from Boston College and a J.D. from New England School of Law.