A federal judge last week sentenced Catherine Leavy, 37, of Westfield for calling in a bomb threat that locked down Children's Hospital and part of the Longwood Medical Area at the height of an online lie campaign to whip up fury over the hospital over procedures it wasn't actually performing. Read more.
An anesthesiologist who had just started a fellowship at Children's Hospital was arrested at his Fenway apartment Thursday evening on charges he downloaded and shared pornographic photos and videos of children as young as infants over the past few months, according to records unsealed in US District Court in Boston today. Read more.
Update: Sentencing rescheduled for July 18.
Children's Hospital has joined Catherine Leavy's attorney in asking leniency for the Westfield woman when she is sentenced Friday for calling in a hoax bomb threat that forced the lockdown of the hospital and part of the Longwood Medical Area in 2022 - specifically, that she not be ordered to serve any prison time. Read more.
Catherine Leavy of Westfield yesterday pleaded guilty to two federal counts for calling in a bomb threat to Children's Hospital on Aug. 30, 2022 as part of a wave of threatened violence against the hospital and its doctors spurred by online transphobes making fake claims that the hospital was mutilating children. Read more.
After Judy Martin lost her job as an EEG technician at Children's Hospital for refusing Covid-19 shots, she sued. Attorneys for Martin and the hospital today filed an agreement to dismiss the suit with prejudice, meaning she can't bring it again. The short agreement does not specify why she dropped the case.
WCVB reports the bomb threat mailed in this morning referenced Children's Hospital's programs for transgender youth - and alleged bombs were also placed at the homes of three doctors. Police cleared the scene after an hour.
In September, the FBI arrested a Westfield woman for calling in a threat that shut the hospital for a couple hours.
A technician who helped administer EEG exams at Boston Children's Hospital today sued over her firing in December for refusing to get Covid-19 shots. Read more.
A federal judge today agreed to let Catherine Leavy swap in her retired father for a GPS device strapped to her ankle as a way to ensure she goes nowhere near Children's Hospital - to which she allegedly called in a bomb threat that shut down both the hospital and Longwood Avenue on Aug. 30. Read more.
James Meickle took a gander at the little knot of transphobes standing on Longwood Avenue across from Children's Hospital this morning. He reports: Read more.
The FBI today arrested a Westfield woman on charges she called in a bomb threat to Children's Hospital last month that led to the hospital and the area surrounding it being locked down for a couple of hours on Aug. 30. Read more.
Online trolls led by a Brooklyn real-estate broker have been targeting Children's Hospital over false claims that the hospital performs hysterectomies and other procedures on transgender children in its care. Read more.
Rendering by Gensler.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by a London-based developer and Children's Hospital for four new buildings at 819 Beacon St. that will have one wing rising 17 stories and which will include 53 units that will provide short-term housing for families living more than 50 miles from Boston who have children getting care at the hospital. Read more.
Tufts Medical Center President Michael Tarnoff announced today that, with the imminent closing of the hospital's in-patient services for children, it will stop intensive treatment of young cancer patients July 1, because many of the patients require overnight stays that the hospital will no longer have for them. Read more.
A Gottesfeld tweet, still online today.
A federal appeals court ruled today that the judges involved in Martin Gottesfeld's trial for launching a massive cyberattack against Children's Hospital over the Justina Pelletier case did nothing wrong and that Gottesfeld can spend the rest of his 121-month sentence behind bars.
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A registered nurse pursued by an angry woman who tagged Children's Hospital in a Facebook rant after learning the nurse had gotten a job there can continue her suit against the hospital under a state law intended to protect victims of domestic violence and harassment, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled today. Read more.
Live Boston reports on an incident at Boston Children's Hospital last night that sent a worker to a nearby trauma center with serious injuries.
NPR reports doctors are looking at why and have several possible explanations: Less exposure to other infectious diseases - due to isolation and better hygiene - better adherence to medical advice on inhalers and less air pollution.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Pediatric Emergency Department Utilization for Asthma - the report by Children's Hospital.
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