Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:45 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Haleigh Poutre was the victim of child abuse and was nearly killed via euthanasia when Massachusetts officials gave up on her after she entered a coma. Now Poutre, once termed "brain dead" by doctors, continues to improve and is speaking a few words, her grandmother says.
Sandra Sudyka, the girl's biological grandmother, is no longer allowed to visit her granddaughter and now says she is ready to speak to the media about Poutre's condition.
She told The Republican newspaper that she last saw Poutre on July 18 but indicated she was "doing well."
"She was bright-eyed and smiling. She is always responsive to us," Sudyka explained.
Department of Social Services had asked Sudyka not to talk with reporters about Haleigh, but since they will no longer allow her and Haleigh's biological mother, Allison Avrett, to visit the 12 year-old, she said she's going to talk to the media.
"I decided since they broke the deal, I am going to talk. People should know how well she is doing," Sudyka told the newspaper.
"They don't want people to know how she is doing after they wanted to pull the plug," Sudyka said.
DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro declined an interview with The Republican but said that the visiting privileges have been suspended, not terminated.
Haleigh first began speaking in June, her grandmother told the newspaper.
"I was saying to her 'I love you,' and she was trying to say 'love' and it came out as a vibration...'ove,'" Sudyka said.
Sudyka, who is working with an attorney to adopt the girl, said she has said hello, responds to comments and questions, speaks nonverbally and is able to write her name. Haleigh can't walk and is confined to a wheelchair.
Avrett, Poutre's biological mother, lost custody of her daughter after physically abusing her. Poutre was put into a foster home where her adoptive parents also abused her. Her adopted mother committed suicide after abusing Poutre so much she had to be hospitalized.
DSS took Poutre into custody and when she appeared to slip into a coma, the agency asked the state Supreme Court for permission to take her life. That's when Poutre began responding.
Poutre has been receiving physical, speech and occupational therapy since January 26 at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton.
Gov. Mitt Romney appointed a commission to look into how the state failed to properly handle the girl's case.
Please see #1278 for a reply to all concerned and a few more thanks :-)
Now I did say advertising.
May there be a couple of angels looking out for every good and faithful Freeper, and for their families, and for our heroes in the armed forces.
Dr. Hammesfahr identified Terri's vision problem and even measured her shortsightedness. He also warned that response time would be slow. But then, Dr. Hammesfahr took the time to do it right. He spent ten hours with Terri in three different meetings, plus the hours he spent studying her medical records.
bb, thank you for reminding folks that we have screen names for a reason and we don't discuss personal information for a reason, whether it's at free republic or at a knitting web site (yes they have knitting message boards). Pearl one, knit two.
That ad looks so lifelike.
The media blocked Max Linn's quote from Charlie Crist that Crist is gay. Key west dems are supposed to be attempting to out CC next. It's the lying part I have a problem with. If Crist is gay, he better not lie about it. If he's going to marry Katie, he better get it over with. Then, he'd have a 7 year old stepdaughter, etc. Admittedly, Crist isn't that attractive any more but that may be due to knowing that he's not mr. nice guy. The money he gets in New York and New Jersey is not clean.
After Mikey's lawyers got all of Terri's rehab monies, they pretty much split. Deathknell made sure that Terri was murdered as planned. She was the physical presence at hostage woodside barring the door. wicked witch of the gulf coast. somebody burned her bad because she was so bitter and evil. she's also a trickster.
"No judge shall act as guardian after this law becomes effective, except when he or she is related to the ward by blood, marriage, or adoption, or has maintained a close relationship with the ward or the ward's family, and serves without compensation."
Aw, phooey. This one didn't have a copyright notice, and it was, after all, posted in google images.
Could you kindly remove this "unauthorized access" notice?
Enjoy the photos anyway.
She didn't have to take it out on Terri.
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No, she just wanted to.
"We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest."
You'll have your hands full from now on. I just can't
accept that now people will be in peril of their lives
because of other people. I can't accept it and I find it
horrifying. Never tell me that it's for the sake of Fatherland. -Sophie Scholl
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On September 13, the William and Mary student group Students for Life sponsored a lecture by Bobby Schindler, the brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Ms. Schiavo was the center of media uproar as a woman who had been living in a compromised neurological state since 1990 and passed away in March 2005 after the court ordered her feeding tube removed.
Schindler argued that the media attention and controversy surrounding his sister’s case suggested that it was a right to life case, but in reality, it was a case for people with disabilities. “The only difference between [Terri] and us today is that she needed to be fed with a feeding tube,” Schindler said. The media had reported that Terri was in a Persistent Vegetative State (PVS), a fact that Schindler disagrees with.
Schindler is against the diagnosis of PVS, saying that it was invented in order to legally remove food and drink from patients that could not feed themselves. Schindler says that the PVS diagnosis is completely subjective and cited data that demonstrated that PVS was misdiagnosed 50 percent of the time. In fact, in Terri’s case, many doctors believed that Terri was not in a PVS. Terri’s autopsy proved that her temporal lobes (which control emotion) had been intact.
“Why should we treat people with disabilities any differently?” Schindler asked, questioning why people in a PVS had no constitutional rights. America is heading down a “frightening path in the way we treat the disabled and elderly,” Schindler cautioned.
For more information, visit the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation website, www.terrisfight.org
Terri Schiavo’s brother speaks on campus, against PVS diagnosis
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Wu is pro-choice, so he gets the expected high marks from the National Abortion Rights Action League and low marks from National Right to Life.
The political football of 2005 came in March, with Congress taking the unprecedented step of asking a federal court to ignore previous court rulings in the case of Terri Schiavo and side with parents to keep her on life support. Wu joined the majority in opposing the bill.
Wu's record in Congress detailed
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