Who Failed Rebecca?

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 06:20:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Rebecca Riley's story is the horrific stuff you'd expect to see at a cineplex.  Before the 4-year-old from Boston died in December 2006, she had been on a steady regimen of some very strong psychotropic drugs, prescribed by a doctor to treat her bipolar condition.  Allegedly, her parents used her in a scheme to collect Social Security disability payments.  Bottomline is that the parents are facing second-degree murder charges and the doctor is being sued by Rebecca's estate as the "primary cause" of her death.

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