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Girl Vegetative State Abuse Testimony - Politics, Business, Civil, History - Posted: 1st May, 2008 - 3:40pm
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Girl In Vegetative State Gives Abuse Testimony
It is a miracle that this girl is alive and she was able to testify of the terrible abuse she went through. I hope justice is served.
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| Last winter, just as the state's highest court was about to rule that a girl in an "irreversible vegetative state" should be removed from life support, 14-year-old Haleigh Poutre started to breathe on her own. Haleigh, who spent the past two years at a pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Brighton, Mass., suffered a near-fatal head injury in September 2005. Communicating with simple words and hand gestures and by spelling out full sentences by pointing to alphabet letters on a board Haleigh in December described to police the intense physical abuse she allegedly suffered at the hands of her adoptive mother and stepfather, Holli and Jason Strickland, The Boston Globe reported on Tuesday. Incidentally, Haleigh's sister, Samantha Poutre, has given police a new statement about Haleigh's injury, which put her in a coma. Samantha initially told investigators that Haleigh was practicing a back flip when she hit her head on a basement pipe, according to defense lawyers. Now, Samantha is saying that Jason Strickland kicked Haleigh down a flight of stairs. Haleigh would not give investigators specifics about the events surrounding her injury. She only said that the Stricklands used corporal punishment regularly during her childhood.... |
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Testimony Abuse State Vegetative Girl
Corporal punishment is all well and good but I do not think kicking a child down the stairs fits in with this. I believe that is abuse. I think the two parents responsible for this girls injuries should be severely punished. Lets kick them down a few flights of spiked stairs.
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