A sad and tragic story - the story of Justina Pelletier..... to be continued, I hope

Dear friends, family, and those concerned about justice,

     What a sad and tragic story - the story of Justina Pelletier ...................

Justina Pelletier's story is of a 15-year-old ice-skating competitor who was taken from her parents by the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF), locked up for over a year, and is now confined to a wheelchair because of maltreatment for a metabolic disorder.

Fox News' Megyn Kelly Reports on Justina's declining health "The story of Justina Pelletier is like a horror movie," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel Action.  Before she was admitted to Boston Children's Hospital, Justina was being treated for mitochondrial disease, a rare genetic disorder, by Dr. Mark Korson originally at Tufts Medical Center.  At Boston Children's Hospital, a new doctor, in the seventh month of his internship, changed the working diagnosis from mitochondrial disease to somatoform disorder, shifting her treatment from physical to mental.

When Lou and Linda Pelletier tried to discharge their daughter the following day, February 14, 2013, and return her to care at Tufts Medical Center, DCF took Justina as a ward of the state and moved her to Bader Five, the psychiatric ward, where she remained for eleven months.  Today Justina is confined at Wayside Youth and Family Support, a nonmedical treatment facility.  She is suffering every day with excruciating pain, and her health is rapidly declining.

In Massachusetts, prisoners are entitled to regular visits, education, and medical care.  Justina has been treated worse by DCF than incarcerated felons.  She has one-hour, supervised visitation per week, no education, and abysmal medical care.  Seeking to silence the parents, DCF filed a complaint to old the father in contempt of court for violating an alleged gag order that was never put in writing.

Then Liberty Counsel Action got involved.

Under legal pressure and the scrutiny of the media and the public, which DCF wanted to avoid, DCF agreed to drop the contempt motion against the father for speaking to the media, not oppose the motion Liberty Counsel prepared to remove the gag order, and provide medical treatment to Justina by transferring her to Tufts Medical Center.  Since that order, however, DCF has refused to tell the Pelletiers what steps they are taking, if any, to comply with that order.  Justina has told her parents tat Dr. Korson wants to see her every week to two weeks, but DCF has told Justina they will only allow her to see him every eight weeks.

Then Judge Johnston in the Suffolk County Juvenile Court in Boston inexplicably ordered Justina remain in DCF's custody, ith that order to be revisited not prior to June 2014.

end of  Liberty Counsel Action info. sheet.

For more info:  Mat Staver, Chairman, Liberty Counsel Action, P.O. Box 190, Forest, VA 24551, www.LCAction.org

Let's continue to call for wisdom from our loving, gracious, merciful Creator Lord!  He is wise, and good , and awesome, eternal and true!!!  He is faithful!!!