FACTS OMITTED: Susan Pane fled with the baby thirteen months ago, in October 1999, to Florida from Massachusetts. She did not have the consent of the baby's father or approval by the court. The baby was then 2 months' old.

CORRECTION: Brian Meuse took the child from Florida back to Massachusetts on October 1, 2000, not on October 11, 2000, as the paper reported. This fact is significant because Susan Pane did not have a court order explicitly giving her custody on October 1, 2000.

The court gave her custody in a closed courtroom -- the Kangaroo Court -- without a hearing on October 11, 2000. That custody order issued only AFTER Judge Manzi refused to read the medical evidence of the child's condition, refused to read the legal papers Meuse's counsel submitted to the court, and refused to allow Meuse's counsel to speak.

That order giving custody to the mother was eleven days AFTER Meuse had taken the baby.

CORRECTION: There was NO "custody arrangement," as the article reported, to be violated. There had been a "visitation schedule" to accommodate both an anticipated medical evaluation on June 22, 2000, and subsequent treatment of the child in Florida.

CORRECTION: The paper wrongly reported that mother "cancelled several of the baby's appointments for developmental therapy...." In truth, according to the medical records, the mother cancelled all but two weeks of the physical and occupational therapy scheduled for each week from June to mid-September. This was clearly medical neglect of the child.

When on his visit last month, Meuse saw no improvement in the child's condition, he knew he could not risk the child's muscles atrophying from the mother's intentional physical neglect of the child: Mother, who is unemployed and already living near the Florida seashore, had chosen to take a month's vacation rather than take the child to therapy treatments so she could learn to hold a bottle or a spoon and to sit up, crawl, and eventually walk.

The child, at fourteen months, had developed muscularly only to the level of a five-month-old infant.

CORRECTION: Judge Manzi did not issue any warrant yesterday, as reported by the paper, or any other day in my presence for Meuse. According to Assistant District Attorney Robert Weiner, in a telephone call to me a few weeks ago, a warrant had issued. I have no personal knowledge that the statement is true. I have seen no affidavit seeking a warrant.

CORRECTION: The paper quotes the mother's attorney as having said that I "altered medical evidence to make it appear that Ms. Pane has a drug problem." That is slander per se and I shall contemplate suing Ms. Pane's attorney for defamation.

I had caused over two dozen subpoenas to be served on pharmacies, hospitals, and doctors, as well as Pane's former drug-distributing employer and health insurer (Merck-Medco). Around 70 prescriptions were filled for Pane within the two years she lived in Massachusetts. Pane wrote in her answers to interrogatories that there is another Susan Pane living in Haverhill who got those prescriptions. The first question then becomes, Will the real Susan Pane please stand up? The second, How did this other Susan Pane get the date of birth, social security number, and name of the health insurer for Meuse's ex-girlfriend Susan Pane?

Mother's narcotics of choice appear to be hydrocordone/APAP (acetominephen) and oxycodone/APAP, which she was taking when the breast-feeding child was 8 days' old. According to both Merck-Medco and the selling-pharmacy records, she received a prescription for 360 Ultram from a local doctor, Dr. David Byrne, around the time her pregnancy began. I have been unable to get confirmation from Dr. Byrne, who is known to be quite conservative medically, that he gave her such a prescription. We doubt it, because although Ultram is not a narcotic, it is believed by some medical and pharmaceutical professionals to be addictive and dangerous to be taking while pregnant.

One question arises from this scenario: Did Susan Pane use her position as a pharmacy technician at Merck Medco to self-prescribe?

COMMENT: I have no knowledge that Susan Pane has sought or gotten one or more restraining orders against Brian Meuse. Although I have not communicated with Brian since October 5th, I doubt that he has any knowledge of them either.

COMMENT: Mr. Mimni, a court-appointed attorney for the child, has appeared in courts three times allegedly on the child's behalf. Not once has he ever mentioned or been concerned with the child's physical condition. In my opinion, our taxes are being wasted on paying him for his deficient and biased so-called legal services.

COMMENT: The issue about what money Brian Meuse had or is using to support himself and the child is a smokescreen. While it is true that his ability to earn was seriously impaired this year because he had to commute, literally, between his home and Florida in order to visit with and eventually get his daughter back, he has, suffice it to say, hundreds of supporters amongst those dads who have also been victimized by the family courts' bias in favor of moms, as well as an extremely functional and supportive family who are very caring and gracious and determined to see that little Marissa gets the very best medical care, something she was denied while in her mother's care.