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I wrote yesterday that if a child has a broken leg, how it was broken is less relevant than the physician being competent to mend it. When we speak of child abuse pediatrician we're talking about general practitioners who have attended a seminar or two on child abuse... in other words, to justify their existence they must look for child abuse first when (and if) they examine a patient. Juxtaposed against them are specialists as in the Daugherty case and the Pelletier case which we'll look at today.

To recap briefly; the Daugherty children and their mom suffer from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome), as well as other medical conditions requiring a specialist, not an ideologue. Similarly, Justina Pelletier of Connecticut suffers from a Mitochondrial disorder requiring a specialist and like the Daugherty children was removed from her home by ideologically driven physicians- many of those were involved in the Daugherty case as well. The results were predictable... denied the treatment she needed for 18 months Justina's health deteriorated drastically...

This is what happens when political ideology mixes with medicine... the lunatics take over the asylum. For example one of the doctors involved in both the Daugherty and Pelletier cases is Dr. (and I use the term in its loosest possible connotation) Carole Jenny...

who along with her husband, Dr. Thomas Roesler co-authored the book Beyond Munchausens, a book that blames parents for practically every possible malady, partially due to activism gone berserk and partially due to incompetence in diagnosing diseases requiring a specialist... and that's in the rare case when they examine a patient at all. Let's look at Dr. Jenny's bona fides:

 Dr. Jenny is part of the Helfer Society – an elite group of doctors involved with Child Abuse. She won the Helfer Society’s Award in 2004. Per their website: 

 The Helfer Award is given annually to the member of the Society who has made significant contributions to the field of Child Abuse Pediatrics. 

 The list of recipients contains several names that have come up repeatedly in our research of Medical Kidnap articles. It seems that a small group of people have acquired a great deal of power over the lives of American families as they impact policy, philosophy, and judicial decisions. See the list here.The Helfer Society recounts Dr. Jenny’s accolades:

Dr. Jenny is a Professor of Pediatrics at Brown University School of Medicine.  She graduated from University of Missouri, Dartmouth Medical School and the University of Washington School of Medicine.

 She did her pediatric residency at the University of Colorado Affiliated Hospitals and at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.  She was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania, and received an MBA in Health Care from the Wharton School. Before coming to Providence, she has served on the faculties of the University of Washington and the University of Colorado.

She directs the Child Protection Program at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island.  The program offers medical consultation, evaluation and treatment services for children with suspected physical abuse, sexual abuse, failure to thrive, psychological abuse, neglect, medical neglect, and factitious illness.

Dr. Jenny is past-Chair of the Section on Child Abuse and Neglect of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and currently serves as the Chair of the Academy’s Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect.Her research interests include abusive head trauma, Internet child exploitation, and medical child abuse. She is a researcher at the Biomechanics Laboratory of the Aprica Childcare Institute, Nara, Japan. 

Other than abuse, there's nothing in there that could be construed as any sort of specialty that would lend itself to diagnosing abstract diseases such as those suffered by the Daughertys and Justina Pelletier... so it must be abuse- Munchausens by Proxy!Here are some of the less popular accolades of Dr. Jenny:

 In “The Controversial Child Abuse Epidemic Tearing Families Apart,” journalist Jody Allard writes that:

the pioneers of the medical child abuse umbrella, including Dr. Jenny (now on the Seattle Children’s child abuse team), are the same doctors responsible for shaken baby syndrome epidemic, now largely discredited, and before that, the satanic sex abuse panic of the 1980s.

According to Dr. Maxine Eichner:

In both panics, experts saw foul play where none existed, government officials took their views at face value, and people were wrongly convicted and imprisoned, their lives ruined. Medical child abuse is causing similar harm.[T]he central reason given by these doctors that medical child abuse is better than Munchausen’s by Proxy is that it’s diagnosed much more frequently. For them, that’s a virtue. For everyone but this particular group, this should be horrifying. (Source.)

 Even though Child Abuse Specialists are not specialists in neurology, orthopedics, radiology, genetics, or even more specific fields such as Ehlers Danlos Syndrome or Mitochondrial disease, they often openly disregard the medical expertise of doctors who are noted as experts in their fields because, much like a narcissist with delusions of grandeur, they believe that they have the special ability to see child abuse that no one else is clever enough to find... a very dangerous power indeed. This is particularly disconcerting because it isn't just one or two, but an entire network of these ideologues has emerged, bent on destroying families. Another "doctor" involved in the Pelletier case is  "Dr." Brenda Bursch of Arizona.

 Connections to Arizona and California

 Bursch has played a significant role in several Medical Kidnap families losing their children in Arizona and California, including Leanna Smith, Melissa Diegel, and Jewels Stein.  Leanna Smith filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Arizona for the removal of her daughters. The lawsuit implicated Arizona DCS of using false testimony from psychologists employed by the department:

The key to this complaint is the act of Dr. Brenda Bursch (“Bursch”) and Marina Greco (“Greco”), a licensed therapist who intentionally and knowingly practiced medicine without a license. They did so pursuant to a conspiracy to manipulate a child in CPS care and custody and were aided and abetted by Bonnie Brown, CPS Supervisor , Tammy MacAlpine, CPS Case worker, Katrina Buwalda, a licensed psychologist in Arizona.

Brenda Bursch, PhD – “Professional Testifier”So how are the courts successfully keeping these children?

In some cases, they hire professional testifiers like Brenda Bursch, who gets paid $200 an hour to testify on the stand. She is contracted by different states, (in her case 5 different states). She has been practicing for over 20 years, and has been working with CPS since the early 1990s. She now gets paid to professionally and falsely testify against the parents.

Brenda Burch has a PhD in psychology. She testifies against the medical records she has reviewed, but she is NOT a licensed medical doctor. Also, in most cases, she has NEVER MET the children or the accused parent IN PERSON until the day of the trial, yet testifies as to their supposed diagnosis on the stand.

Her specialty is MBP. She boldly claims that a parent should never be able see their child again because the parent has made the child ill. In seemingly all her cases, she claims the parents suffer from “Munchhausen by Proxy/ Factitious Disorder,” yet she has never spoken to the parent or child in almost all her cases.

It is the most unprofessional thing I have ever seen. Brenda Bursch has been involved in at least 9 MBP Arizona cases and was brought up on charges of practicing medicine in Arizona without a license. She has also been involved in multiple clinical research trials. 

This woman has no license to practice medicine yet her word is taken by courts in numerous states in cases where she has never examined a patient, only reviewed medical records. This woman should be in prison! What's happening here is evident to anyone paying attention... as the public outcry against CPS and their crooked social workers intensifies, they've turned to their allies in the medical community for assistance. After all the child trafficking pipeline needs victims.

https://medicalkidnap.com/2018/02/16/california-christian-homeschool-family-torn-apart-as-children-are-medically-kidnapped-forced-into-public-school-and-mother-is-forced-out-of-family-home/