Monroe County officials don’t often turn down grants, especially big ones. So when the county rejected a $2.6 million state grant for the Monroe County Public Defender’s Office to expand its representation of parents facing child neglect or abuse allegations, some members of the local legal and social-services communities were understandably confused. And they see […]
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A court’s eugenics revival
Some men in their 60s and 70s are suing the state of Massachusetts for branding them “morons” as children and locking them away in the Fernald State School, a hideous institution where they were abused and fed radioactive oatmeal as part of a science experiment. A Boston Globe story describes the men as “among […]
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‘Born to a no-parent family’
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.” Edmund Burke, 1775 Baby Bobbijean was born in March 2003 at HighlandHospital. Within days, the Monroe County Department of Health and Human Services filed a petition classifying her as neglected. The newborn […]
