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.
I will never tell.
I love that woman. Peggy, if I single, I'd be at your front door with an armful of roses.
{sigh} That's what the sea lions said too.
We should develop our own lexicon, vocabulary of the death lovers and what the words mean or hide.
They only bark, or sort of honk.
I lived in Connecticut until I was eleven and we always took field trips to the museum at Yale. Back in the mid 70's they were obsessed with a tribe from the Philippines called the "Tasaday," there were all sorts of documentaries done and we went to see all of these exhibit about this totally isolated tribe that had been "lost" and lived a Stone Age existence. The US government and places like "National Geographic" gave hundreds of millions to do all sorts of research on them and to "preserve" their way of life.
After Ferdinand Marcos was removed from power it came out that the Tasaday was a complete hoax that was devised by Marcos to get money. I remember thinking how funny it is that these leftists can be duped into believing just about anything.
The girls sea lions, not the girls I dated.
Now all we need is physicians who can sing :-)
"Ask your doctor about new prescription Permomorph for a long-lasting solution to pain and breathing. Permomorph is not for everyone. Side effects include not waking up and having your in-laws paw through your belongings."
No need to confess your shady past. You're among friends here.
>> the Tasaday was a complete hoax that was devised by Marcos to get money.
One must do what one can. Imelda Marcos had extremely expensive tastes in shoes.
Not much respect for that babe.
I still have a bow from Hutu headhunter types. I was looking at the arrowheads, yesterday, two kinds, one for little birds, one for people size. Lethal little thingies.They were certainly not lost, but we were, in the barrios and had no interest meeting them or the NPA who were all around us. No mooslims in those days, not around our area in Luzon.
Mooslims were in Mindinau where the Tasaday were supposed to be. Knew people from that island but never went there, not likely to go there, either. May return one day to Ilocos, though to visit friends.
Note my shoe statement...
PHYSICIAN-ASSISTED VOLITIONAL NEGATIVE PATIENT CARE OUTCOME.
I heard tell not so long ago that she still hangs out now and then in the Pen in Manila. A great place for afternoon tea, but you have to wear shoes in the foyer. The government stole Imelda's whole collection (bureaucrats are SO insensitive), so I don't know what she wears now.
palliative permissive postliving procedural protocol
Enrile
>> 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.
That's not what the bill said, but in any case, it passed decisively. If Wu opposed it, he was decidedly in the minority. One presumes he just loves to torture disabled women to death.
That's very good! Almost as good as Spiro Agnew! Copyright it fast, you could get rich!
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