Many folks feel that CPS is still using children as medical guinea pigs in
the
case of administration of psychotropics, in young children.
Often times, these children are are MULTIPLE MEDS. Not just one.
FL, in particular, has litigated with DCF, as to its policies of allowing
meds
without sufficient medical input.
Thanks, again.
Lil found:
>Subject: I TOOK GIRLS OUT OF HELL - AND CITY STOLE THEM BACK
>From: lilmtncbn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(LilMtnCbn)
>Date: 2/29/2004 10:28 AM Eastern Standard Time
>Message-id: <20040229102836.25780.00000607@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/19314.htm
>
>I TOOK GIRLS OUT OF HELL - AND CITY STOLE THEM BACK
>
>By DOUGLAS MONTERO
>
>
>February 29, 2004 -- Jacqueline Hoerger will never forget the raid of her
>Nyack
>home by foster-care social workers who snatched the two HIV-positive
sisters
>she was trying to adopt.
>Her crime: She was accused of neglect by the girls' doctor because she
>refused
>to give them a potentially dangerous cocktail of high-powered AIDS
>medications
>that she felt made them sicker.
>
>Hoerger, a pediatric nurse who spent two years as the girls' foster
mother,
>got
>the children from Manhattan's Incarnation Children's Center, a foster
home
>for
>HIV-infected kids, where she worked from 1989 to 1993.
>
>There, she watched an array of researchers experiment on HIV-infected
>children,
>some as young as 3 months.
>
>She did her job and figured the doctors at Columbia Presbyterian Medical
>Center, which is affiliated with ICC, knew what they were doing. It
wasn't
>until she was allowed to take the sisters, ages 6 and 4, home in late
1998
>that
>she began questioning the doctors and suspected they were conducting
>research.
>
>"They were given to me as total wrecks," Hoerger said, describing how the
>oldest was hyperactive and sickly and the youngest was lethargic,
extremely
>overweight and could barely walk.
>
>She learned the drug cocktails were highly toxic and mostly untested in
>children after listening to a speech by Dr. Philip Incao, of Denver, who
>travels across the country questioning current HIV medical practices.
>
>She decided to wean them off the drugs with Incao's help.
>
>That's when the brow-beating began. The Administration for Children's
>Services,
>which has admitted to allowing researchers to conduct medical experiments
on
>HIV-infected children, and the Catholic Home Bureau, the adoption arm of
the
>Archdiocese of New York, became the doctors' enforcers.
>
>When Hoerger refused to relent, social workers came and took the girls
away.
>
>ACS refused to comment about the case, citing the privacy of the two
sisters.
>
>
>"I gave my blood, sweat and tears to help these children, and we turned
them
>into real kids," said Hoerger, who cared for the girls with her husband,
a
>schoolteacher. "They were just taken away - two healthy kids - taken
away.
>
>"I spent a couple of days in total shock," said Hoerger, who despite her
>run-in
>the ACS maintains her license as a nurse. "I didn't do anything for two
days
>-
>I was in total, complete shock."
>
>That was in 2000. She hasn't seen the kids since.
>
>
>
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>A good friend will come and bail you out of jail . . . but, a true friend
>will
>be sitting next to you saying, "Damn . . . that was fun!"
>-----Unknown
>
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