Middlesex District Attorney Martha Coakley has launched a homicide investigation into the death of a 2-month-old Dracut boy, an alleged victim of shaken baby syndrome who was taken off life support yesterday afternoon.
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Dracut police said Williams reported that the baby was choking. Doctors at Lowell General Hospital, where the baby was first taken, found the baby to be in respiratory distress, and by Thursday he was declared brain dead at Floating Hospital at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston.
Yesterday, doctors performed surgery to harvest the baby's organs for transplantation, said Coakley. At the time, life support was withdrawn and Liam's death was officially announced by authorities.
"So this is officially a homicide investigation into the cause of death of Liam Garvey," Coakley said at a press conference with officials from the Dracut police.
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Authorities said they have moved carefully in the past few days in deciding whether to withdraw life support, concerned about the issues that arose in the case of Haleigh Poutre, a victim of alleged child abuse. After taking custody of the comatose girl last fall, DSS moved quickly for a court order to remove her life support.
Four months later, after winning the high court's approval to withdraw life support, DSS officials said they discovered the girl was breathing on her own and was capable of responding to commands.
The 12-year-old girl from Westfield is now at a Brighton rehabilitation hospital in stable condition, her case causing statewide reforms to be enacted on end-of-life cases involving minors in state custody.
Baby's death investigated as homicide, Coakley says
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How can we change the rules to avoid family feuds faced in the Terry Schiavo Case for 15 years? Let Constance d’Angelis, former attorney for Michael Schiavo, share her first-hand insights and alternative solutions to help families keep the peace.
(PRWEB) December 25, 2006 -- How can we resolve family matters without dragging everyone through painful court battles? How can we change the rules to avoid family feuds faced in the Terri Schiavo Case for 15 years? Let Constance d’Angelis, former attorney for Michael Schiavo, share her first-hand insights and alternative solutions to families keep the peace.
After the first removal of the gastric tube Constance said; “The Schiavo case does not belong in an adversarial, combative and war-like forum. These people are the core of our fabric as a society. They are a family. What have we done?”
1. Why the Court System Doesn’t Work for Family Disputes
2. Alternative Dispute Resolution Practices
3. New Family Collaborative Council
Keep the Family Peace with New Alternative Dispute Resolutions
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I never get over the bureaucratic madness of this one. Here is a little girl who has been horribly abused. She was burned with cigarettes, starved, pushed repeatedly down the stairs and beaten with a baseball bat. Our human sympathies cry out to save her, care for her, make her well. But look at the reaction of the agency charged with protecting children: the bureaucrats went straight to court to KILL her!
They had to be in the cannibal trade, selling human organs for profit.
When was the baby brought to the hospital?