In early March, Judge Johnson put Justina Pelletier's medical care back with Dr. Korman/Tufts

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34. I saw the names with ties in articles that I read some months ago

and the articles I read were pretty consistently, if not entirely, Boston Globe and other msm outlets. I remember at least one, if not two, DCF employees leading the DCF team had formerly worked for Childrens. I think it was in an extensive globe article on the case.

Imo, Children's, DCF and the judge effed up and now they are doing what people almost always do when they realize they effed up -- try to extricate with minimal damage to themselves. That inevitably involves pointing blame to the weakest involved.

I see it happen all the time in the hospital where I work, both between departments and within the lab. Somebody makes a mistake, and everybody immediately goes into "the best defense is a good offense" mode. I've seen it when a specimen falls through the cracks and suddenly a doctor is on the phone yelling for the results. The techs immediately point the finger at the lab assistant. I've seen it when a nurse doesn't order a test correctly, so we don't get the order and suddenly a doctor is on the phone yelling for results. The doctor and the nurse join forces and try to blame the lab. The more senior people involved immediately close ranks and point at the most junior. Or the long timers point at the newcomer. Or the 2 people that work together all the time point the finger at the odd one out. Hell, I've even had our lab supervisor blame me for a mistake when she wrongly overrode my decision and I followed her orders. But always it is a gang in positions of relative power against a less powerful individual.