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Psychiatrist Sued in Death of 4- year old Rebecca Riley_Boston Globe



 
 
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Old April 8th 08, 05:19 AM posted to alt.support.attn-deficit,misc.health.alternative,misc.headlines,alt.support.breast-implant,misc.kids.health
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Default Psychiatrist Sued in Death of 4- year old Rebecca Riley_Boston Globe


"WWWSC #2" wrote:
marcia expounded:

On Apr 6, 10:33 am, "
wrote:
On Apr 5, 9:57 am, marcia wrote:

On Apr 5, 7:50 am, FalseFlagUSA wrote:

I strongly suspect that this is a very common occurrence, the
proverbial tip of the iceberg! I would guess that t thousands of
innocent children have met a very untimely demise by a rush-to-
judgment in misdiagnosing ADD.
Now is the time to find redress in the courts!

If it were a common occurrence, we'd hear more about it in the press.
I suspect something like this happens only very rarely.

Note that false flag is FARTIE.


Sad when all Mark S Probert disbarred attorney form Merrick, NY
can only call names when a death of a 4 year old is caused by some
sick Psychiatrist over medicating a FOUR year old. The parents are in jail
but the shrink
is still on staff.

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Watch the youtube videos there.



Oooooh. Thanks for exposing the cover-up. If I'd known it was
Fartie, I probably wouldn't have responded at all... I thought this
was some *new* anti-meds nut, not the same old anti-meds nut.


lol. Poor Marica can't remember the email addy.

Shame on the *gang* from this so-called support group.

The shift is diverting to the poster rather than the KILLING of a four year
old child.

Started by Mark S Probert who has exposed himself.

LYING for years.

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I strongly suspect that this is a very common occurrence, the
proverbial tip of the iceberg! I would guess that t thousands of
innocent children have met a very untimely demise by a rush-to-
judgment in misdiagnosing ADD.
Now is the time to find redress in the courts!


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FYI



A Boston lawyer Andrew C. Meyer Jr., who represents the estate of Rebecca
Riley, the 4-year old child whose prescribed psychotropic drugs killed
her,
filed a malpractice lawsuit against Tufts Medical Center psychiatrist, Dr.
Kayoko Kifuji. The suit asserts that the psychiatrist who diagnosed the
girl as bipolar when she was 28 months old and then treated her for two
years with a regimen of powerful drugs is to blame for her death.



"This child was subject to mostly telephone prescriptions and a slipshod
diagnosis."



"According to the medical examiner, her heart and lungs were damaged, and
this was due to prolonged abuse of these prescription drugs, rather than
one
incident. Prolonged abuse of these prescription drugs."



The truth about these drugs' lethal effects is finally breaking through
the
carefully crafted layers of false claims about their safety and
effectiveness.



Tufts-New England Medical Center, where the child was treated, released a
statement supporting its doctor and calling the care "appropriate and
within
responsible professional standards."



Hopefully those "professional standards" promoted by influential child
psychiatrists at Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital-- Dr. Joseph
Biederman and Dr. Janet Wozniak--who endorse "aggressive" prescribing of
psychotropic drugs for children, will come under scrutiny in open court.



The Pediatric Bipolar Program at Mass General has been in the forefront of
aggressive recruitment campaigns for manic-depression studies.
A television ad (November, 2001), MGH sought 4 to 18 year old child
subjects
is an example of disease mongering.
The MGH ad made false claims suggesting:
"Your child may be facing a chemical problem that you can't manage without
help."
"We're Mass General, and we can help."
The number given to call is 617-724-4 MGH.



What scientific basis suggests a chemical rather than a behavioral
problem?



Contact: Vera Hassner Sharav

212-595-8974



http://www.boston.com/news/local/art...girl_4?mode=PF
Boston Globe
Doctor is sued in death of girl, 4
Her psychiatrist treated her with powerful drugs
By Shelley Murphy, April 4, 2008



The parents of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley are awaiting trial on charges that
they killed her in December 2006 with an overdose of psychiatric drugs.



A medical malpractice suit filed yesterday asserts that a Tufts Medical
Center psychiatrist who diagnosed the girl as bipolar when she was 28
months
old and then treated her for two years with a regimen of powerful drugs is
to blame for her death.



"This child was subject to mostly telephone prescriptions and a slipshod
diagnosis," said Boston lawyer Andrew C. Meyer Jr., who represents Rebecca
Riley's estate and filed the suit against Dr. Kayoko Kifuji in Suffolk
Superior Court.



Six weeks before Rebecca Riley was found dead on Dec. 13, 2006, in a Hull
house shared by her parents and other relatives, a nurse at her Weymouth
preschool warned Kifuji that she suspected the child was overmedicated
because she was often too tired to participate in school activities and
appeared like a "floppy doll," according to Meyer. Kifuji did not reduce
her
medication after examining the child, he said.



"They made her a 4-year-old zombie," said Meyer, whose Boston law firm
Lubin
& Meyer specializes in medical malpractice cases. "We don't believe that
she
did suffer from bipolar or that this was the appropriate medication."



The suit was filed on behalf of a court-appointed guardian who is serving
as
administrator of Rebecca Riley's estate and is protecting the interests of
the girl's 13-year-old brother and 7- year-old sister. It seeks
unspecified
damages for the wrongful death and pain and suffering endured by Rebecca,
as
well as the loss suffered by her brother and sister, who are in foster
care
and have been named the beneficiaries of her estate.



Kifuji could not be reached for comment yesterday. Since the child's
death,
Kifuji remains on staff at Tufts Medical Center, but no longer treats
patients. She has voluntarily agreed not to practice medicine, pending an
investigation by the state Board of Registration in Medicine.



Tufts Medical Center released a statement yesterday saying: "We have not
received any official notification of a lawsuit. We remain in support of
Dr.
Kifuji and the care she provided."



Kifuji diagnosed Rebecca Riley with bipolar disorder and attention deficit
and hyperactivity disorder and prescribed clonidine, a blood pressure
medication that is sometimes used to calm aggressive children, Seroquel,
an
antipsychotic drug, and Depakote, an antiseizure drug, according to court
records. The child died from an overdose of the prescription drugs, and,
by
itself, the amount of clonidine in her system was fatal, court records
indicate. Clonidine and Depakote are approved by the FDA for adults only.



A trial date has yet to be set for Michael and Carolyn Riley, who were
initially charged with first-degree murder in intentionally overmedicating
their daughter and knowing that it would be fatal.



In December, a judge reduced their charges to second-degree murder, ruling
that there was insufficient to evidence to support the prosecution's
assertion that the death was premeditated. Prosecutors are appealing that
ruling to the state appeals court.



In court after the parents' arrests, a prosecutor alleged that the Rileys
falsely said their daughter was mentally unstable so she would qualify for
Social Security disability benefits and then deliberately overmedicated
her.
Carolyn Riley's brother, who was living with the Rileys in Hull, told
investigators that Rebecca was ill for days prior to her death and that he
pleaded with her parents to take her to the hospital, but they refused,
according to a State Police affidavit filed in the case.



Kifuji told police she was "shocked and very concerned" in October 2005
when
Carolyn Riley told her she had gradually increased Rebecca's nighttime
dose
of clonidine and warned her not to do so again because increasing the
dosage
could be fatal, according to the affidavit.



Brockton lawyer John G. Darrell, who represents Michael Riley, said the
suit
raises "an interesting question" about who is responsible for Rebecca
Riley's death. "I think the facts will eventually show that my client did
not do anything criminal."



Carolyn Riley's lawyer could not be reached for comment. The Rileys remain
in custody without bail, pending trial.



Meyer said that even if a jury finds Rebecca Riley's parents guilty of
murder, it does not alleviate Kifuji of liability.



"The primary responsibility falls on this doctor," Meyer said. "The
failure
of this doctor to respond to the warnings she was given and to thoroughly
investigate the symptoms that her medication was causing ended with this
very sad result here of a young girl dying."



Shelley Murphy can be reached at .
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