Care & Protection of Bruce

For the first two and one-half years of her son Bruce’s life, his mother, Laura,1 took better than adequate care of him. The child was bom June 13, 1991. On January 30, 1994, Laura called the police for assistance and wound up in Pembroke Hospital, a psychiatric facility. Laura had manifested paranoid delusions. She had told police and medical personnel at Cardinal Cushing Hospital, to which she had initially been taken, that her apartment contained poisonous gas that had made her ill. Unknown men, she said, were bringing poison to her apartment. The air, water, and food were contaminated. No…