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.
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TORONTO, September 11, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) The recent efforts of Australia and other nations to ban the promotion of suicide through the internet has euthanasia advocates complaining that the loss of the internet may prove lethal to the right-to-die movement itself.
Nations Move to Ban Suicide Counseling; Euthanasia Movement Complains
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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The President's Council on Bioethics held a meeting last week and members said they are concerned that the advancement of medicine is leading to tests showing disabilities in unborn children that may prompt abortions. Prenatal testing is leading to "eugenic" abortions, several members of the panel said.
The panel called the information gathered from such prenatal testing "toxic knowledge" because such a high percentage of pregnancies involving disabled babies end in abortion.
President's Council on Bioethics Worries About Abortions on Disabled Babies
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Bttt...
You nail it. Nothing makes sense here on the surface. We have to look deeper. There is one constant at every evil turning in Haleigh's life, and that's the sister, Holli Strickland. She was source of deceit, over and over.
Clearly, Holli had connections in DSS. She played them like a harp. For one, she was some sort of "welfare queen," swindling state agencies -- she had four fraudulent social securities numbers issued for Haleigh. Then later, when Haleigh was showing repeated signs of physical battering, Holli always managed to con the DSS case workers that the child was hurting herself! It should have been a giant alarm going off -- especially to trained personnel in a child welfare agency. The DSS is rightly condemned for overlooking the abuse until it was too late, but we can't rule out that Holli's connections in the bureau had much to do with it.
I think Holli simply stole the child from her sister, Allison Avrett. We should dig up that story again. Details were sketchy, but as I recall it, Holli invited Haleigh for a visit (Allison was some distance away, in Virginia, I think). Then, when the child was in her possession, she reported Allison and/or her boyfriend for abuse. The DSS conveniently turned custody over to Holli. I don't think Allison was even there to defend herself. In any case, the DSS threat against Allison's unborn baby decided the matter.
There is no question that Holli had a deep, violent hatred for Haleigh, and beat her sadistically. The only way I can get any sense out of this is that Holly hated her sister Allison and schemed to hurt her. I guess in her twisted mind, she was getting even with Allison by stealing and torturing Haleigh.
I'll bet the mother knew all about Holli's schemes.
Whew, I should read the news before I start writing! I just now saw the lawsuit story, and that's right to the point. Now I have to go read it and see if any of my theories go up in smoke :-)
Oh, my! Way to go, Wendy Murphy!
I wasn't aware that it was Holli's adoptive mother who shot her. Constance Young, 71; we didn't know her name before. There is little doubt now that Young did the shooting (the earlier stories were vaguely worded). She obviously was waiting for Holli, and shot her the day after she got out on bail. What do you want to bet that Young bought that gun when Holli and Jason were under arrest?
Lively thread over there :-) The story itself is wonderful news. For some reason, that attracts all the Joe Bfstplks and a few sex-specific denizens of the kennel. I do believe they could look at a dazzling dew drop on a rose petal in the sweet light of dawn, and see famine, plague, war, Israeli atrocities and clogging of the arteries.
I worry about bioethics. I also worry about the president having a council of bioethickers. There are a few honorable exceptions, but bioethickers as a rule are death culters. All they ever have to say is, "This case is a tragedy for all concerned, kill the patient."*
* That's what they say when meeting in committee, too.
bttt
The ILLEGAL TV COMMERCIAL CAN BE VIEWED HERE just click on the plastic VCR case:
http://www.conservative-spirit.org/
Even the Fla Elections Commission is part of the Greer TV ad coverup. They were offered the original videotape that shows the commercial aired on 8-14-04 but they turned it down, suppressing evidence. The Fla Elections Commission have lost their credibility now too.
So, it's either Jeb or Charlie's scandal. But, remember that Judge Greer is Charlie Crist's hero for killing Terri Schiavo. Maybe Jeb will clear this up before Crist gets an opportunity to bury the truth with the aid of democratic friends and trial lawyers.
MOST TV COMMERCIALS DO NOT LEAD TO MURDER. Greer's did.
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Sophisticated testing was not done until autopsy time.
She sure enjoyed ice cream though. Funny how that is......
Hahahaha!
Lifeguards should be fired and we'd all save money on our taxes if saving lives is considered "intervening".
You're barely scratching the surface. What about the TSA and all their snooping into your luggage at airports? Useless. What about school crossing guards? And all the precautions in place in schools to prevent another Columbine? EMS personnel, ERs, hospitals themselves, doctors, nurses, pharmaceuticals -- out with them. Public health services -- stop now. Food and Drug Agency -- get lost and take all of your regulations with you. Forest rangers -- go home. Police, find another job. Firemen, find another job. Secret Service -- retire. U.S. intelligence agencies -- disband. Scads of others, no use listing any more of them.
No more intervening. Everyone can fend for themselves and the strong will hurt the weak the way Terri was tortured and died.
May I say, I knew ye when, Mike? I did. Great work, young man!
Maybe, but they sure didn't want any outside observers did they? For we know she could of had "sickle cell anemia".
Ahh, the joys of committee decisions. Nobody can be blamed. Even the most dastardly of deeds get watered down and diffused in committee and responsibility is camouflaged. The result repels analysis like teflon no matter how devastating the group decision and everyone in the group can be a little Pontius Pilate.
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