Boston is home to one of the first notorious cases of medical kidnapping that garnered widespread public attention, that of Justina Pelletier, seized by Boston Children's Hospital and Child Protective Services, and confined against her will and the will of her family in a psych ward.
It appears that the Boston area is a hub for medical kidnappings of adults as well as children.
In at least 4 cases that we know of in the Boston, Massachusetts, area, there is a web of common players who are interconnected.
Jewish Family and Children's Services is the common denominator for each of these senior citizens who were seized by Adult Protective Services.
Instead of foster parents, "guardians" are court-appointed to take control of their lives, assets, and medical decisions, leaving elder adults victims of strangers they have never met, isolated from their family and friends who are the ones that truly care about them. They are accused of having "mental illness" and confined to psych wards against their will.
Lonnie Brennan is the editor of a newspaper that has reported their stories, The Boston Broadside. He was recently threatened with arrest for trying to visit one medically kidnapped lady, Mary Frank, who was trying to reach out to him to get her story published. She was confined to a nursing home and psych ward against her will, and denied basic human rights. Her perpetrators did not want her story going public.
Lonnie told a local radio talk show host:
"Once they have you, you are better off going to the nearest liquor store and saying, 'Hey, I'm robbing you.' Because you'll get better health care and you'll get better freedom if you are in prison. I hate to say it.
And you'll have more dignity in prison than you will have - than we have witnessed - in nursing homes."
