The Pettier Family Wins Custody Battle

A lot of media focus has been centered around a young girl, Justina Pelletier, and her parent's custody battle with the state of Massachusetts. The state claimed child abuse due to the medical care she received at the Children's Hospital, for their inability to treat her mitochondrial disease. Her parent's were outraged with the Children's Hospital, and demanded her release, only to have the hospital contact the Massachusetts child protection agency. Read more about this story below...

This is not the first time a controversial diagnosis of a new or less understood disease has resulted in a custody battle involving accusation of medical child abuse. According to the Boston Globe, during the same 2013 period that Pelletier was admitted to Children’s Hospital, a 5-year-old Massachusetts girl, who had also been previously treated for mitochondrial disorder, was also admitted to that facility. Just as in Pelletier’s case, the child’s mother lost custody of her daughter – a pattern that has been seen in numerous similar cases.

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