{"id":6111,"date":"2006-09-04T08:47:24","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T08:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/haleigh-poutrue.html"},"modified":"2006-09-04T08:47:24","modified_gmt":"2006-09-04T08:47:24","slug":"haleigh-poutrue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/haleigh-poutrue.html","title":{"rendered":"Haleigh Poutrue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember her?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesleyjsmith.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/haleigh-poutre-continues-to-improve.html\">Wesley Smith reminds us:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last year, doctors wrote 12-year old Haleigh Poutre off as good as dead after she was beaten nearly to death, allegedly by her adoptive mother and step father. After only one week, they assumed she was in a PVS and urged the State of Massachusetts to dehydrate Haleigh to death. The State Supreme Court approved a few months later. Then, just before the dehydration was to commence, it became clear that Haleigh was not even unconscious and the dehydration was called off. At the time, <a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=YjMzOThlNDU0NGI0Zjc4ZDY0ZDg3ODZkYjAyYjM3NTQ=\"><span style=\"color: #5588aa\">I wrote about Haleigh&#8217;s case here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Haleigh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/chicopeeholyoke\/republican\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-1\/1157183508227930.xml&amp;coll=1\"><span style=\"color: #996699\">has continued to improve<\/span><\/a>, apparently, and now is even speaking a few words. But this is no thanks to the doctors or the courts, which are duty-bound to protect helpless children like Haleigh from harm, and failed her utterly. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/chicopeeholyoke\/republican\/index.ssf?\/base\/news-1\/1157183508227930.xml&amp;coll=1\">More from a Massachusetts paper<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/archives\/005850.htm\">a bit more from Michelle Malkin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember her? Wesley Smith reminds us: Last year, doctors wrote 12-year old Haleigh Poutre off as good as dead after she was beaten nearly to death, allegedly by her adoptive mother and step father. 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