∆‡ Attleboro sect: "Attleboro Sect Couple Facing Jail over Duty of Care Issue"


International Cultic Studies Association Article News Summaries
		Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002


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News Summaries
	News Summaries: March 31, 2002
	Group: Attleboro sect, The Body	Founder: Jacques Robidoux
	Category: Religious: bible based	Topic: children, custody, legal
Children / Jacques Robidoux Attleboro Sect Couple Facing Jail over Duty of Care Issue Prosecutors looking for the newborn of a religious sect (led by Jacques Robidoux) couple offered them some immunity if they reveal the burial site of the remains of the baby they say was miscarried. Rebecca and David Corneau were jailed Tuesday for contempt for refusing to reveal what happened to the baby she was carrying. After weeks of refusing to even acknowledge she was pregnant, the couple did say Rebecca Corneau had a miscarriage. In a letter sent Thursday, Bristol District Attorney Paul J. Walsh Jr. said their statements would not be used against them for the misdemeanor — illegal disposal of the baby. He did not rule out other charges, however. ''We want to know where the remains are,'' said First Assistant District Attorney Gerry FitzGerald. (Boston Globe, 2/9/2002, Internet) [CG1] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had for a time prevented the jailing of the Corneaus, who refused a lower court order to turn over the conjectured newborn to a Juvenile Court judge. In early January, the state Department of Social Services initiated a "care and protection" proceeding seeking temporary custody of a baby the department believed Rebecca Corneau bore in November or December. Fourteen other children — including the Corneau's four daughters — have been taken in similar proceedings after a judge found the sect members unfit parents because sect members do not seek medical care for their children, do not send them to school, and use a paddle to punish them for behavior such as soiling a diaper. Three sect members have been charged in the 1999 starvation death of one sect child, and prosecutors did not file charges in the death of the Corneu's son, who investigators believe died shortly after birth from a complication that could have been treated through modern medicine. [The group buried two of the children in rural Maine.] Under state law, all children who are subject to the care and protection proceeding must be presented to the court, but the Corneaus have refused to present their newborn. Indeed, they have refused to confirm whether a baby was born [although Mrs. Corneau appeared to be pregnant until recently]. They have cited their protections in the state and federal constitutions against being forced to implicate themselves in a crime. (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/25/02, Internet) Rebecca Corneau carried a paddle around her waist that she used for hitting children, according to a sworn affidavit from M. Carol Bridges, an investigator with the state Department of Social Services. Officials had previously said members of the sect were declared unfit as parents, and the children were placed for adoption because the sect members did not secure proper medical care for the children or send them to school. The court documents say publicly for the first time that physical abuse was also a factor that led to Corneau and her husband losing parental rights to at least one of their girls. "The child, age 26 months at the time of her removal from her parents' care, was spanked or paddled by her parents for soiling her diaper," Bridges's affidavit says. "When the child was placed in foster care she had bruising on her buttocks consistent with paddling. Her older sisters also had thickened skin on their buttocks consistent with paddling." The affidavit also says, "This practice was common in the religious group in which the Corneaus were members. The practice of severely paddling the children was believed to be necessary in order . . . that the children's 'will' be 'broken.' " (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/10/02, Internet) Commentary: Basic Right Endangered in Attleboro Case Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe, 1/9/02, Internet "Does a woman's right to control her fertility extend to childbirth? Or have the abortion wars so warped our perspective that we now define reproductive choice only as a woman's right to prevent or terminate an unwanted pregnancy? "The question arises in the troubling case of Rebecca Corneau, the mother whose membership in a religious sect in which two children died under suspicious circumstances prompted a judge to declare her and others in the group unfit parents. "Corneau was not charged in either the death of her son, Jeremiah, who she says was stillborn, or the death of 10-month-old Samuel, who prosecutors say was starved by his parents, Jacques and Karen Robidoux, the sect's leaders. "The Robidouxs rightly will stand trial in March for their son's death, but Corneau's branding as an unfit mother seems to stem solely from her membership in a sect that refuses to accept modern medical care. In the fall of 2000, fearing that the fetus she was carrying might meet the same fate as Jeremiah, Attleboro Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth P. Nassif imprisoned Corneau to await the birth and to submit to prentatal medical exams against the beliefs of what he called her ''bizarre and dangerous cult.'' Her newborn daughter was placed in foster care with her three other children. Nassif's stunning assertion of jurisdiction over the body of a pregnant woman never charged with a crime was never subject to appellate review because Corneau refused legal representation. "Now, based on visual clues that Corneau recently might have been pregnant but no longer appears to be so, Nassif is back, taking the extraordinary step of awarding the state temporary custody of an infant who might not exist. Since the state has yet to prove a child was born, one has to ask how the judge can assert that the phantom infant is in danger of abuse and neglect. . . . "No one wants to see a life endangered, but DSS officials, Nassif, and Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh have forgotten that the law stands on evidence, not on speculative fears. Carney is not being hyperbolic when he cautions against a ''witch hunt'' in this case." _____________________________________________ ^

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International Cultic Studies Association Article News Summaries
		Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002


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News Summaries
	News Summaries: March 31, 2002
	Group: Attleboro sect, The Body	Founder: Jacques Robidoux
	Category: Religious: bible based	Topic: children, custody, legal
Children / Jacques Robidoux Attleboro Sect Couple Facing Jail over Duty of Care Issue Prosecutors looking for the newborn of a religious sect (led by Jacques Robidoux) couple offered them some immunity if they reveal the burial site of the remains of the baby they say was miscarried. Rebecca and David Corneau were jailed Tuesday for contempt for refusing to reveal what happened to the baby she was carrying. After weeks of refusing to even acknowledge she was pregnant, the couple did say Rebecca Corneau had a miscarriage. In a letter sent Thursday, Bristol District Attorney Paul J. Walsh Jr. said their statements would not be used against them for the misdemeanor — illegal disposal of the baby. He did not rule out other charges, however. ''We want to know where the remains are,'' said First Assistant District Attorney Gerry FitzGerald. (Boston Globe, 2/9/2002, Internet) [CG1] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had for a time prevented the jailing of the Corneaus, who refused a lower court order to turn over the conjectured newborn to a Juvenile Court judge. In early January, the state Department of Social Services initiated a "care and protection" proceeding seeking temporary custody of a baby the department believed Rebecca Corneau bore in November or December. Fourteen other children — including the Corneau's four daughters — have been taken in similar proceedings after a judge found the sect members unfit parents because sect members do not seek medical care for their children, do not send them to school, and use a paddle to punish them for behavior such as soiling a diaper. Three sect members have been charged in the 1999 starvation death of one sect child, and prosecutors did not file charges in the death of the Corneu's son, who investigators believe died shortly after birth from a complication that could have been treated through modern medicine. [The group buried two of the children in rural Maine.] Under state law, all children who are subject to the care and protection proceeding must be presented to the court, but the Corneaus have refused to present their newborn. Indeed, they have refused to confirm whether a baby was born [although Mrs. Corneau appeared to be pregnant until recently]. They have cited their protections in the state and federal constitutions against being forced to implicate themselves in a crime. (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/25/02, Internet) Rebecca Corneau carried a paddle around her waist that she used for hitting children, according to a sworn affidavit from M. Carol Bridges, an investigator with the state Department of Social Services. Officials had previously said members of the sect were declared unfit as parents, and the children were placed for adoption because the sect members did not secure proper medical care for the children or send them to school. The court documents say publicly for the first time that physical abuse was also a factor that led to Corneau and her husband losing parental rights to at least one of their girls. "The child, age 26 months at the time of her removal from her parents' care, was spanked or paddled by her parents for soiling her diaper," Bridges's affidavit says. "When the child was placed in foster care she had bruising on her buttocks consistent with paddling. Her older sisters also had thickened skin on their buttocks consistent with paddling." The affidavit also says, "This practice was common in the religious group in which the Corneaus were members. The practice of severely paddling the children was believed to be necessary in order . . . that the children's 'will' be 'broken.' " (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/10/02, Internet) Commentary: Basic Right Endangered in Attleboro Case Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe, 1/9/02, Internet "Does a woman's right to control her fertility extend to childbirth? Or have the abortion wars so warped our perspective that we now define reproductive choice only as a woman's right to prevent or terminate an unwanted pregnancy? "The question arises in the troubling case of Rebecca Corneau, the mother whose membership in a religious sect in which two children died under suspicious circumstances prompted a judge to declare her and others in the group unfit parents. "Corneau was not charged in either the death of her son, Jeremiah, who she says was stillborn, or the death of 10-month-old Samuel, who prosecutors say was starved by his parents, Jacques and Karen Robidoux, the sect's leaders. "The Robidouxs rightly will stand trial in March for their son's death, but Corneau's branding as an unfit mother seems to stem solely from her membership in a sect that refuses to accept modern medical care. In the fall of 2000, fearing that the fetus she was carrying might meet the same fate as Jeremiah, Attleboro Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth P. Nassif imprisoned Corneau to await the birth and to submit to prentatal medical exams against the beliefs of what he called her ''bizarre and dangerous cult.'' Her newborn daughter was placed in foster care with her three other children. Nassif's stunning assertion of jurisdiction over the body of a pregnant woman never charged with a crime was never subject to appellate review because Corneau refused legal representation. "Now, based on visual clues that Corneau recently might have been pregnant but no longer appears to be so, Nassif is back, taking the extraordinary step of awarding the state temporary custody of an infant who might not exist. Since the state has yet to prove a child was born, one has to ask how the judge can assert that the phantom infant is in danger of abuse and neglect. . . . "No one wants to see a life endangered, but DSS officials, Nassif, and Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh have forgotten that the law stands on evidence, not on speculative fears. Carney is not being hyperbolic when he cautions against a ''witch hunt'' in this case." _____________________________________________ ^

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International Cultic Studies Association Article News Summaries
		Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002


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News Summaries
	News Summaries: March 31, 2002
	Group: Attleboro sect, The Body	Founder: Jacques Robidoux
	Category: Religious: bible based	Topic: children, custody, legal
Children / Jacques Robidoux Attleboro Sect Couple Facing Jail over Duty of Care Issue Prosecutors looking for the newborn of a religious sect (led by Jacques Robidoux) couple offered them some immunity if they reveal the burial site of the remains of the baby they say was miscarried. Rebecca and David Corneau were jailed Tuesday for contempt for refusing to reveal what happened to the baby she was carrying. After weeks of refusing to even acknowledge she was pregnant, the couple did say Rebecca Corneau had a miscarriage. In a letter sent Thursday, Bristol District Attorney Paul J. Walsh Jr. said their statements would not be used against them for the misdemeanor — illegal disposal of the baby. He did not rule out other charges, however. ''We want to know where the remains are,'' said First Assistant District Attorney Gerry FitzGerald. (Boston Globe, 2/9/2002, Internet) [CG1] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had for a time prevented the jailing of the Corneaus, who refused a lower court order to turn over the conjectured newborn to a Juvenile Court judge. In early January, the state Department of Social Services initiated a "care and protection" proceeding seeking temporary custody of a baby the department believed Rebecca Corneau bore in November or December. Fourteen other children — including the Corneau's four daughters — have been taken in similar proceedings after a judge found the sect members unfit parents because sect members do not seek medical care for their children, do not send them to school, and use a paddle to punish them for behavior such as soiling a diaper. Three sect members have been charged in the 1999 starvation death of one sect child, and prosecutors did not file charges in the death of the Corneu's son, who investigators believe died shortly after birth from a complication that could have been treated through modern medicine. [The group buried two of the children in rural Maine.] Under state law, all children who are subject to the care and protection proceeding must be presented to the court, but the Corneaus have refused to present their newborn. Indeed, they have refused to confirm whether a baby was born [although Mrs. Corneau appeared to be pregnant until recently]. They have cited their protections in the state and federal constitutions against being forced to implicate themselves in a crime. (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/25/02, Internet) Rebecca Corneau carried a paddle around her waist that she used for hitting children, according to a sworn affidavit from M. Carol Bridges, an investigator with the state Department of Social Services. Officials had previously said members of the sect were declared unfit as parents, and the children were placed for adoption because the sect members did not secure proper medical care for the children or send them to school. The court documents say publicly for the first time that physical abuse was also a factor that led to Corneau and her husband losing parental rights to at least one of their girls. "The child, age 26 months at the time of her removal from her parents' care, was spanked or paddled by her parents for soiling her diaper," Bridges's affidavit says. "When the child was placed in foster care she had bruising on her buttocks consistent with paddling. Her older sisters also had thickened skin on their buttocks consistent with paddling." The affidavit also says, "This practice was common in the religious group in which the Corneaus were members. The practice of severely paddling the children was believed to be necessary in order . . . that the children's 'will' be 'broken.' " (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/10/02, Internet) Commentary: Basic Right Endangered in Attleboro Case Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe, 1/9/02, Internet "Does a woman's right to control her fertility extend to childbirth? Or have the abortion wars so warped our perspective that we now define reproductive choice only as a woman's right to prevent or terminate an unwanted pregnancy? "The question arises in the troubling case of Rebecca Corneau, the mother whose membership in a religious sect in which two children died under suspicious circumstances prompted a judge to declare her and others in the group unfit parents. "Corneau was not charged in either the death of her son, Jeremiah, who she says was stillborn, or the death of 10-month-old Samuel, who prosecutors say was starved by his parents, Jacques and Karen Robidoux, the sect's leaders. "The Robidouxs rightly will stand trial in March for their son's death, but Corneau's branding as an unfit mother seems to stem solely from her membership in a sect that refuses to accept modern medical care. In the fall of 2000, fearing that the fetus she was carrying might meet the same fate as Jeremiah, Attleboro Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth P. Nassif imprisoned Corneau to await the birth and to submit to prentatal medical exams against the beliefs of what he called her ''bizarre and dangerous cult.'' Her newborn daughter was placed in foster care with her three other children. Nassif's stunning assertion of jurisdiction over the body of a pregnant woman never charged with a crime was never subject to appellate review because Corneau refused legal representation. "Now, based on visual clues that Corneau recently might have been pregnant but no longer appears to be so, Nassif is back, taking the extraordinary step of awarding the state temporary custody of an infant who might not exist. Since the state has yet to prove a child was born, one has to ask how the judge can assert that the phantom infant is in danger of abuse and neglect. . . . "No one wants to see a life endangered, but DSS officials, Nassif, and Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh have forgotten that the law stands on evidence, not on speculative fears. Carney is not being hyperbolic when he cautions against a ''witch hunt'' in this case." _____________________________________________ ^

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International Cultic Studies Association Article News Summaries
		Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002


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News Summaries
	News Summaries: March 31, 2002
	Group: Attleboro sect, The Body	Founder: Jacques Robidoux
	Category: Religious: bible based	Topic: children, custody, legal
Children / Jacques Robidoux Attleboro Sect Couple Facing Jail over Duty of Care Issue Prosecutors looking for the newborn of a religious sect (led by Jacques Robidoux) couple offered them some immunity if they reveal the burial site of the remains of the baby they say was miscarried. Rebecca and David Corneau were jailed Tuesday for contempt for refusing to reveal what happened to the baby she was carrying. After weeks of refusing to even acknowledge she was pregnant, the couple did say Rebecca Corneau had a miscarriage. In a letter sent Thursday, Bristol District Attorney Paul J. Walsh Jr. said their statements would not be used against them for the misdemeanor — illegal disposal of the baby. He did not rule out other charges, however. ''We want to know where the remains are,'' said First Assistant District Attorney Gerry FitzGerald. (Boston Globe, 2/9/2002, Internet) [CG1] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had for a time prevented the jailing of the Corneaus, who refused a lower court order to turn over the conjectured newborn to a Juvenile Court judge. In early January, the state Department of Social Services initiated a "care and protection" proceeding seeking temporary custody of a baby the department believed Rebecca Corneau bore in November or December. Fourteen other children — including the Corneau's four daughters — have been taken in similar proceedings after a judge found the sect members unfit parents because sect members do not seek medical care for their children, do not send them to school, and use a paddle to punish them for behavior such as soiling a diaper. Three sect members have been charged in the 1999 starvation death of one sect child, and prosecutors did not file charges in the death of the Corneu's son, who investigators believe died shortly after birth from a complication that could have been treated through modern medicine. [The group buried two of the children in rural Maine.] Under state law, all children who are subject to the care and protection proceeding must be presented to the court, but the Corneaus have refused to present their newborn. Indeed, they have refused to confirm whether a baby was born [although Mrs. Corneau appeared to be pregnant until recently]. They have cited their protections in the state and federal constitutions against being forced to implicate themselves in a crime. (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/25/02, Internet) Rebecca Corneau carried a paddle around her waist that she used for hitting children, according to a sworn affidavit from M. Carol Bridges, an investigator with the state Department of Social Services. Officials had previously said members of the sect were declared unfit as parents, and the children were placed for adoption because the sect members did not secure proper medical care for the children or send them to school. The court documents say publicly for the first time that physical abuse was also a factor that led to Corneau and her husband losing parental rights to at least one of their girls. "The child, age 26 months at the time of her removal from her parents' care, was spanked or paddled by her parents for soiling her diaper," Bridges's affidavit says. "When the child was placed in foster care she had bruising on her buttocks consistent with paddling. Her older sisters also had thickened skin on their buttocks consistent with paddling." The affidavit also says, "This practice was common in the religious group in which the Corneaus were members. The practice of severely paddling the children was believed to be necessary in order . . . that the children's 'will' be 'broken.' " (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/10/02, Internet) Commentary: Basic Right Endangered in Attleboro Case Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe, 1/9/02, Internet "Does a woman's right to control her fertility extend to childbirth? Or have the abortion wars so warped our perspective that we now define reproductive choice only as a woman's right to prevent or terminate an unwanted pregnancy? "The question arises in the troubling case of Rebecca Corneau, the mother whose membership in a religious sect in which two children died under suspicious circumstances prompted a judge to declare her and others in the group unfit parents. "Corneau was not charged in either the death of her son, Jeremiah, who she says was stillborn, or the death of 10-month-old Samuel, who prosecutors say was starved by his parents, Jacques and Karen Robidoux, the sect's leaders. "The Robidouxs rightly will stand trial in March for their son's death, but Corneau's branding as an unfit mother seems to stem solely from her membership in a sect that refuses to accept modern medical care. In the fall of 2000, fearing that the fetus she was carrying might meet the same fate as Jeremiah, Attleboro Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth P. Nassif imprisoned Corneau to await the birth and to submit to prentatal medical exams against the beliefs of what he called her ''bizarre and dangerous cult.'' Her newborn daughter was placed in foster care with her three other children. Nassif's stunning assertion of jurisdiction over the body of a pregnant woman never charged with a crime was never subject to appellate review because Corneau refused legal representation. "Now, based on visual clues that Corneau recently might have been pregnant but no longer appears to be so, Nassif is back, taking the extraordinary step of awarding the state temporary custody of an infant who might not exist. Since the state has yet to prove a child was born, one has to ask how the judge can assert that the phantom infant is in danger of abuse and neglect. . . . "No one wants to see a life endangered, but DSS officials, Nassif, and Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh have forgotten that the law stands on evidence, not on speculative fears. Carney is not being hyperbolic when he cautions against a ''witch hunt'' in this case." _____________________________________________ ^

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		Vol. 1, No. 1, 2002


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News Summaries
	News Summaries: March 31, 2002
	Group: Attleboro sect, The Body	Founder: Jacques Robidoux
	Category: Religious: bible based	Topic: children, custody, legal
Children / Jacques Robidoux Attleboro Sect Couple Facing Jail over Duty of Care Issue Prosecutors looking for the newborn of a religious sect (led by Jacques Robidoux) couple offered them some immunity if they reveal the burial site of the remains of the baby they say was miscarried. Rebecca and David Corneau were jailed Tuesday for contempt for refusing to reveal what happened to the baby she was carrying. After weeks of refusing to even acknowledge she was pregnant, the couple did say Rebecca Corneau had a miscarriage. In a letter sent Thursday, Bristol District Attorney Paul J. Walsh Jr. said their statements would not be used against them for the misdemeanor — illegal disposal of the baby. He did not rule out other charges, however. ''We want to know where the remains are,'' said First Assistant District Attorney Gerry FitzGerald. (Boston Globe, 2/9/2002, Internet) [CG1] The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had for a time prevented the jailing of the Corneaus, who refused a lower court order to turn over the conjectured newborn to a Juvenile Court judge. In early January, the state Department of Social Services initiated a "care and protection" proceeding seeking temporary custody of a baby the department believed Rebecca Corneau bore in November or December. Fourteen other children — including the Corneau's four daughters — have been taken in similar proceedings after a judge found the sect members unfit parents because sect members do not seek medical care for their children, do not send them to school, and use a paddle to punish them for behavior such as soiling a diaper. Three sect members have been charged in the 1999 starvation death of one sect child, and prosecutors did not file charges in the death of the Corneu's son, who investigators believe died shortly after birth from a complication that could have been treated through modern medicine. [The group buried two of the children in rural Maine.] Under state law, all children who are subject to the care and protection proceeding must be presented to the court, but the Corneaus have refused to present their newborn. Indeed, they have refused to confirm whether a baby was born [although Mrs. Corneau appeared to be pregnant until recently]. They have cited their protections in the state and federal constitutions against being forced to implicate themselves in a crime. (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/25/02, Internet) Rebecca Corneau carried a paddle around her waist that she used for hitting children, according to a sworn affidavit from M. Carol Bridges, an investigator with the state Department of Social Services. Officials had previously said members of the sect were declared unfit as parents, and the children were placed for adoption because the sect members did not secure proper medical care for the children or send them to school. The court documents say publicly for the first time that physical abuse was also a factor that led to Corneau and her husband losing parental rights to at least one of their girls. "The child, age 26 months at the time of her removal from her parents' care, was spanked or paddled by her parents for soiling her diaper," Bridges's affidavit says. "When the child was placed in foster care she had bruising on her buttocks consistent with paddling. Her older sisters also had thickened skin on their buttocks consistent with paddling." The affidavit also says, "This practice was common in the religious group in which the Corneaus were members. The practice of severely paddling the children was believed to be necessary in order . . . that the children's 'will' be 'broken.' " (Paul Edward Parker, Providence Journal, 1/10/02, Internet) Commentary: Basic Right Endangered in Attleboro Case Eileen McNamara, Boston Globe, 1/9/02, Internet "Does a woman's right to control her fertility extend to childbirth? Or have the abortion wars so warped our perspective that we now define reproductive choice only as a woman's right to prevent or terminate an unwanted pregnancy? "The question arises in the troubling case of Rebecca Corneau, the mother whose membership in a religious sect in which two children died under suspicious circumstances prompted a judge to declare her and others in the group unfit parents. "Corneau was not charged in either the death of her son, Jeremiah, who she says was stillborn, or the death of 10-month-old Samuel, who prosecutors say was starved by his parents, Jacques and Karen Robidoux, the sect's leaders. "The Robidouxs rightly will stand trial in March for their son's death, but Corneau's branding as an unfit mother seems to stem solely from her membership in a sect that refuses to accept modern medical care. In the fall of 2000, fearing that the fetus she was carrying might meet the same fate as Jeremiah, Attleboro Juvenile Court Judge Kenneth P. Nassif imprisoned Corneau to await the birth and to submit to prentatal medical exams against the beliefs of what he called her ''bizarre and dangerous cult.'' Her newborn daughter was placed in foster care with her three other children. Nassif's stunning assertion of jurisdiction over the body of a pregnant woman never charged with a crime was never subject to appellate review because Corneau refused legal representation. "Now, based on visual clues that Corneau recently might have been pregnant but no longer appears to be so, Nassif is back, taking the extraordinary step of awarding the state temporary custody of an infant who might not exist. Since the state has yet to prove a child was born, one has to ask how the judge can assert that the phantom infant is in danger of abuse and neglect. . . . "No one wants to see a life endangered, but DSS officials, Nassif, and Bristol District Attorney Paul F. Walsh have forgotten that the law stands on evidence, not on speculative fears. Carney is not being hyperbolic when he cautions against a ''witch hunt'' in this case." _____________________________________________ ^

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