Lou and Linda Pelletier lost the custody of their daughter 15 months ago, but Liberty Counsel has announced that Massachusetts' Department of Children and families (DCF) now wants to shift the location of the teen girl to Connecticut, which is her home town. The distance of the proposed location is an hour from the family's home in Connecticut.
Currently, Justina is in Massachusetts, where she has been kept by DCF. "Ironically, DCF says that it will support reunification if the Pelletiers follow Tufts Medical Center care plan, which is what the Pelletiers wanted to do 14-months ago when Boston Children's Hospital created a new plan and brought in DCF to enforce it", said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel.
Staver said that the decision to move Justina to Connecticut has not been welcomed by her parents, who say that the facility is very far away from the family's home. Also, Lou Pelletier said that they are just transferring her off to another psychiatric facility, which will be really horrible for the family.
He claimed that they are trivializing her physical needs. He said that Justina is suffering from a heart a condition, which she has yet not been provide the treatment for since she was moved to Boston Children's Hospital last year.
The teen girl had received treatment for mitochondrial disease, a disorder that affects cellular energy production, from Tufts Medical Center. However, she was later diagnosed with psychiatric problems by Boston Children's Hospital. In March, the court ordered to send the kid in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.
Staver said that DCF must assure Justina's parents that it will be in line with Tufts Medical Center recommendations. Moreover, accurate information must be provided to the Pelletiers by Dr. Mark Korson and other Tufts Medical Center healthcare providers.
Apart from this, the other concerning factor for Justina's parents is the fact that she would be placed in a facility that will treat her for alleged psychological issues, and won't provide her proper health care facility.
As the name of the species suggests, a megamouth shark is quite a rare sighting. But group of Japanese fishermen were able to caught Megamouth shark off the coast of Japan from a depth of around 800m.
The current sighting is the 58th...
An EU-funded research project was launched by Berlin the previous week. This project was...
During the course of her address at Intel's Datacenter Day on Monday, Diane Bryant - general...
In a partnership which will enable German operator Deutsche Telecom (DT) to expand its network coverage, the company has joined forces with crowdsourced Wi-Fi Hotspot provider Fon for building what it claims will be the biggest Wi-Fi hotspot...
According to a latest report, the new Finance Minister Michael Spindelegger has recently...
A group of researchers from the University of Maryland has carried out a research on the extent...
Pfizer has issued voluntary recall for Effexor XR in the United States market after a pharmacist found Tikosyn capsule in one of the bottles of Effexor XR. Pfizer has recalled three lots from the US market but the company added that the chances...
According to reports, fledgling Chinese firm OnePlus has...
According to FierceWireless, US wireless carrier Sprint...
A telescope that only filters ultraviolet light is...
Health officials have revealed that higher number of men...
© 2011 AustrianTribune - Tribune Online Services. All times CET (GMT + 1.00).
