Admittedly, some of the sources cited are dubious at best. However, one has no trouble believing this chicanery,
babblery, and abusiveness:
http://westhartford.patch.com/group...ht-hospitals-kidnapping-of-west-hartford-girl
babblery, and abusiveness:
http://westhartford.patch.com/group...ht-hospitals-kidnapping-of-west-hartford-girl
The hospital refused to allow the girl, 15-year-old Justina Pelletier, to leave after her parents brought her in with a case of the flu. Justina had been diagnosed and treated by Tufts doctors for Mitochondrial Disorder, a rare genetic disease. On Feb. 10 her doctor was unavailable and sent her to Boston Children’s Hospital.
But the hospital told Justina’s parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier, that Mitochondrial Disease, which Justina’s 25-year-old sister is also being treated for, does not exist, Pelletier told the Daily Mail. Instead, hospital doctors diagnosed the teen with Somatoform Disorder, a mental illness characterized by pain and gastrointestinal symptoms that have no identifiable physical cause.