Jim Robinson goes into surgery this morning. It will start at 9:00am California time and will last a couple hours. Time for more intense prayer for our founder!
See #436 post by JustAmy.
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Just received a call from Sheila ....
They will take Jim to surgery at 8:00am. The surgery will probably start about 9:00 and will take a couple of hours. He will probably get into recovery about noon.
She will call me tomorrow after surgery to let me know how it went.
9:00am Fresno time, please join me in prayers.
436 posted on
Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:14:56 AM by
JustAmy (I wear red every Friday, but I support our Military everyday!!)
Prayers for Jim Robinson (Updates at #279, #436)
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Haleigh Poutre update...More emerges about the dark role played by the DSS against Haleigh and her mom.
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Lawyers for Haleigh Poutre’s biological mother yesterday alleged she had signed away her rights to the child because of government “coersion” and possible fraud.
At a Superior Court hearing, attorneys seeking damages for what they are calling the wrongful adoption of the 14-year-old brain-damaged girl questioned why the state Department of Social Services has for two years refused to turn over two documents that purportedly explain why she was taken from Allison Avrett.
“The question remains: What is in those two secret reports?” Wendy Murphy said. “. . .Fraud may be someplace in those files.” Lawyers for DSS did not respond to the allegation, but asked Judge Linda Giles to dismiss the case, arguing that Avrett has no say in the matter because she is no longer Haleigh’s legal guardian. Giles made no decision yesterday.
Haleigh was removed from Avrett’s care when she was 4 after Avrett’s sister, Holli Strickland, told DSS the child had been molested by Avrett’s boyfriend at the time, Murphy said.
The allegation was investigated and determined to be unfounded, she said. But DSS threatened to take away Avrett’s unborn child unless she agreed to give up Haleigh, said attorney Elizabeth Clague.
Avrett agreed to allow her sister to adopt Haleigh, with the understanding that she could still visit her daughter.
But when she began to question why Haleigh often had bruises on her body, Strickland falsely reported to DSS that Avrett was neglecting her other two children, Murphy said.
Avrett’s sister and her husband, Jason Strickland, were later arrested and charged with the Sept. 11, 2005, beating that left Haleigh with a sheared brain stem. A month later, Holli Strickland was killed in a murder-suicide with her grandmother.
DSS, believing Haleigh was brain-dead, sought to have life support removed, and Avrett initially agreed, but later began to notice signs of responsiveness.
In January 2006, the day after the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that DSS could remove Haleigh from life support, DSS announced that she was breathing on her own and halted plans to remove her feeding tube.
Five months later, without explanation, DSS permanently barred Avrett from seeing her daughter.
Alison Goodwin, a spokeswoman for the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, yesterday said she was under a “gag order” prohibiting her from commenting on the case.
Poutre’s mom: I was forced to give up custody
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Father God, we pray for your angels of mercy to
surround Jim as he recovers from this very difficult
medical trial.
Shower him with your love and healing light and station
those who love you, in his care, to prevent any harm to come to him.
We beseech your blessings upon this man, who has given
so many the gift of liberty, to share the truth in this time when
it is so desperately needed in our land.
We pray for a total restoration of health, vitality and spirit
that he might continue to carry the torch, for those who have
no voice.
In the mighty name of Jesus, lover of our souls.
Amen