Via Michelle Malkin
Child abuse victim Haleigh Poutre, once deemed to be "virtually brain dead" by medical experts, continues to improve and is even speaking a few words, her biological grandmother said this week.
Sandra Sudyka, of the Feeding Hills section of Agawam, angered over the state Department of Social Services apparent termination of her and her daughter’s bimonthly visits to Haleigh at her Boston hospital, said she has decided to speak publicly of her granddaughter’s condition.
"She was doing well," Sudyka said of the last time she saw Haleigh on July 18. "She was bright-eyed and smiling. She is always responsive to us."
DSS had asked Sudyka and Haleigh’s biological mother, Allison Avrett, not to disclose the 12-year-old girl’s condition to the media.
"I decided since they broke the deal, I am going to talk. People should know how well she is doing," Sudyka said. Avrett declined comment this week.
DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro declined comment yesterday. DSS officials have said, however, that Sudyka’s and Avrett’s visiting privileges have been suspended and not terminated.
DSS took custody of Haleigh nearly a year ago after her adoptive mother and stepfather, Holli A. and Jason D. Strickland, of Westfield, were charged with beating her.
Doctors initially reported that the battered and emaciated Haleigh was in a vegetative state due to a sheared brain stem. Social services sought to end life support systems, a plan approved by the state Supreme Judicial Court on Jan. 17, before improvements in Haleigh’s condition were known.
"They don’t want people to know how she is doing after they wanted to pull the plug," Sudyka said.
That is certainly good news. The fact that DSS had a deal to not disclose the girl’s improving condition just shows that cover up is more important for than truth. Just whatever happened to "where there is life there is hope?"
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Having been in foster care 3 times and the last time from 15 to nearly 18, you would not believe the things the foster care system could do to your kids if they ever got ahold of them. From rapes to forced abortion to entirely loosing a kid. Kids dying in foster care and nobody telling thier parents. They don’t care. They get 30 thousand dollars on average for every foster child in care from the federal government, they can do whatever they want and nobody will stop them. The next time you hear about a foster child getting an abortion you can bet its coerced and the foster parent impregnated her. And under the framework built to protect the child they isolate them and hide evidence. Its disgusting.
DSS (in Massachusetts) is firing on all cylinders. This is the same gov’t agency which awarded the honor of “Parents of the Year” to 2 gay men.
Sometimes people don’t see the harsher side
of abortion and allow the kid to go on too
long as a individual without support.
Many of us need to take a look deeper into the relationship with children and help them grow
to be responsible adults. I have thought of making a resume for kids to get through school on, or is it to difficult for us to take time
for school kids in the classroom. concerned adlut abut raising of kids in public schools.
I remember seeing this in a copy of the Boston Herald somebody left on the bus. It’s amazing (and sickening) to think that once the doctors were “certain” that she would almost certainly die soon, and that she definitely wouldn’t recover at all. I suppose they’ll excuse me for being skeptical when scientists and doctors make “certain” pronouncements. Am I an old-fashioned fool for believing in “superstitious religion” over “concrete science and medicine”. Maybe, but the Church has NEVER been proven wrong.
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