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 come from a long line of the effete core of impudent snobs.
One day perhaps soon, he may be known merely as Who Wu.
Actually, it was corps, not core or corpse, I think. I had better check.
What she wears, now who :-)
Probably has a vast selection of Manolo Blahnik.
Corps, yes. He also called them nattering nabobs of negativity :-)
When he walks by girls on the street, he says, "Wu wu!" This is called pitching wu.
More Yen Tu Wu.
A comic strip character just had a stroke and they are discussing if he'll ever recognize them again and it's pretty negative. I'm waiting for them to pepper right to die issues on their strip until the stroke patient is deceased. Maybe it's cheaper for health care providers and governments to change the meaning of stroke. They keep enlarging the pool of people to be forced out instead of treated it seems.
Talkin' about MURDER. All these politicians are advocating state or health care sponsored murder.
your 1304. Hypocrites are unacceptable, no matter whose snake oil they're peddling. And, remember, they want you to volunteer and do precinct walks for them. They'll have to walk into hell alone.
Angel Trumpets are poisonous.
lexicon entry: partnership: Government and health care providers unite to deliver a death care system designed by secularists, lobbyists and death lawyers.
Gee, any wonder she reacted negatively whenever hino was around.
Side effects are here:
http://www.blankees.com/house/plants/datura.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52493
As a Norwegian by marriage, I have had to learn to like lutefisk. It wasn't easy, doncha know, then. I still get some funny looks when I sprinkle tabasco on it.
But that lefse, then...it's not too bad of a deal.
Will this comic strip "off" their stroke patient? Comic Strip:
http://www.fborfw.com/strip_fix/
This one certainly was!
a malicious hoax. Poisoned minds love the kill.
This one is a beautiful addition to a garden (in the right climate zone). I am satisfied that naming a new variety of Brugmansia for Terri was truly in her honor.
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