“This is truly astonishing. A girl is taken to the hospital for the flu and a team of doctors disagree with the diagnosis of another medical condition she has then basically kidnap her when the parents disagree. The hospital gets custody and has been holding her against her parents will for 10 months. This is like something out of the old Soviet Union not America.” Admin
A 15-year-old is stuck in a Boston hospital after the medical facility took custody of her when her parents argued against her diagnosis.
For the last nine months, Justina Pelletier has been sneaking messages to her parents in Connecticut through folded origami notes.
“It is kidnapping,” Lou Pelletier, the girl’s father, told WTIC-TV.
The local news station investigated the case, for which a judge later issued a gag order, and has the background leading up to the ongoing custody battle:
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