The following info was cut and pasted from BenSwann.com, not written by me.
BenSwann.com has been closely following the story of 15-year-old Justina Pelletier, who has been in the custody of Boston Children’s Hospital for over one year against her parents’ will. Earlier today, the Massachusetts Department of Children & Families (DCF) broke its silence on what is now a highly-publicized case.
Earlier this week, a Suffolk County judge ruled that Justina be moved out of a medical facility and put into a foster home.
Justina’s parents, Lou and Linda, have been fighting to get their daughter back home
ever since the hospital initially took custody of her last
February. Years ago doctors diagnosed Justina with mitochondrial
disease, which causes loss of muscle control. Despite this diagnosis,
Justina was able to live a happy and relatively normal life with her
family in Connecticut.
During a visit to Boston Children’s Hospital during February 2013, doctors claimed that the teen has somatoform disorder, not mitochondrial disease.
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