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“The Hospital is not the custodian or the legal guardian of the patients in its care, nor is it affiliated with any state agency. Our staff are caring and supportive professionals who aim to provide the best and most appropriate care for each and every child, regardless of diagnosis.”

Justina enjoyed ice-skating before being

confined to Boston Children's Hospital

“Many parents and their advocates complain, however, that the state agency, because of its lack of in-house medical expertise and its longstanding ties with Children’s, is overly deferential to the renowned Harvard teaching hospital.”

Justina Pelletier's sisters (from left to right): Julia,

Jennifer, and Jessica

Justina Pelletier's family is only allowed two twenty-minute phone calls

with her per week.

“Due to concerns regarding Justina’s regressive behavior changes around her family, the multiple medical procedures and care episodes she has been through … and both parents’ resistance towards recommended treatment plans for Justina … a child protection team was convened.”

Dr. Mark Korson was Justina's primary doctor

before being excluded by BHC “I am dismayed. … It feels like Justina’s treatment team is out to prove the diagnosis at all costs. … The (Boston Children’s Hospital) team has demanded that Justina be removed from the home. … This represents the most severe and intrusive intervention a patient can undergo … for a clinical hunch,” Dr. Korson wrote.

BCH issued the Pelleteirs "guidelines"

for their daughter's care which include

"No Second Opinions"





Justina Pelletier with her mother during one of her

weekly visits allowed by the hospital

Justina passes handwritten notes to her family via origami art

“The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the 19th century in On Liberty. The proper role of government is to prevent other people from harming an individual. Government, he said, never has any right to interfere with an individual for that individual’s own good.”

UPDATE (12/20/2013): Court Rules Indefinite Detention May Continue

The Pelletiers react to a judge's decision to keep Justina locked away indefinitely in a psych ward

“I don’t understand how they can do this. I didn’t do anything wrong,” said Linda Pelletier as she left the courtroom, sobbing.





Her red-faced father, Lou, said, “It’s a ******* corrupt state” as he left.





The judge appointed a new guardian ad litem for Justina, and another hearing is scheduled for January 10th, 2014.





UPDATE (2/17/2014): Desperate Parents Break Gag Order, Allege Torture





February 14th marked a full year that Justina has been held hostage by Boston Children’s Hospital. Her parents — emotionally and financially drained — are growing increasingly disillusioned and vocal about the situation. There seems to be few legal and peaceful options left for them to reunite their family.

In desperation, Justina’s father has broken the court’s gag order on him talking about the oppression of his family. Lou Pelletier disclosed to the Blaze how his daughter is being punished by her captors if she passes too much information to her parents.





UPDATE (2/18/2014): Lou Pelletier Charged with Contempt of Court

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