text: We are outraged by the egregious mistreatment of the Diegel family and have grave concerns regarding your facilitys medical practices in particular your treatment and lack thereof for the young Diegel sisters Kayla and Hannah ages and respectivelynnYour actions have resulted in these young children being removed and denied access from their parents and put under the states care where their medical and emotional needs are being seriously compromised and threatenednnYour actions of accusing the mother of medical abuse and reporting her to CPS for the same put every potential patient of Phoenix Childrens Hospital at risk of becoming a ward of the state for the inalienable right of requesting a second opinion that differs from yoursnnYou are in effect denying parents their most basic rights ie to care for love and nurture their sick child EVEN VISIT THEM and you are violating Civil Rights irrefutably protected under the Constitution from Parental rights to the denial of medical choice access and advocacynnWhile the Diegels continue to be denied a second opinion you have taken these young girls at a critical time in their physical and emotional development off of their feeding nutrition denying the use of the very tubes your own specialists prescribed and ordered to be surgically implanted in them This was done to enable each of them to absorb nutrition because their stomachs again determined by your own physicians no longer function properly so that they receive adequate nutrition The nuclear scans in the parents possession ordered by the same physician offer proof of this and show that Kayla and Hannah each developed GI issues that required these feeding tubesnnThe girls are both losing weight Kaya is at a dangerous nearly body fat and has lost appropriately of her body weight Her sister has lost They both exhibit bruises on their bodies which could be the result of physical abuse while they are in foster care or an extreme vitamin deficiency Whichever the reason neither is acceptable These children are suffering physically and emotionally with every passing day That you could allow this to continue another moment is reprehensiblennYour hospital took Hannah and Kayla fourteen months after Justina Pelletier was kidnapped under similar circumstances in the state of Massachusetts The world watched as one media outlet after another picked up on this outrageous case and public outrage boiled to the point of massive rallies to FREE JUSTINA Congressmen and women alike took notice of this atrocity and proposed a bill named after her JUSTINAs LAW to stop just this sort of abuse and malpractice A hospital of your ilk should have been quick to take heed of what has happened in Justinas case the physical and emotional damage done to JUSTINA and her family and the public outrage and stopped this abominable practice immediatelynnnIt should not take a law or public outrage for hospitals to do what is right most especially since you are sworn to Do No Harm What you are doing to the Diegel sisters goes to the heart of what hospitals have been doing and getting away with and what Justinas case has shown to the world MUST STOPnnWe demand the release of the Diegel sisters and any other patients you have treated similarly and that you retract your allegations of medical abuse from the state so that the children can go home to their loving family forthwith A parent should be allowed to seek a second even third medical opinion and care without the threat of losing parental rights as is now happening to the Diegels We will petition Congress for their intervention in this matter since the proposed Justinas Law might not be passed before you literally starve these young children and deny them of any comfort of their loving family along the waynnFREE THE DIEGEL SISTERS TODAYnn November of TGen entered into a collaborative agreement with Phoenix Childrens Hospital the governor mayor judges and GALs are on the board of directors at TGennMarch th unknown to the parents a drug trial opened up at Phoenix Childrens Hospital for their childrens rare conditionnHannah and Kaylas GI doctor was fired on March st for neglect and child endangermentnHannah was taken from her hospital bed by DCS on April th nKayla was taken from her hospital bed by DCS on April th nThe claim against the mother is Medical abuse over medicalizingnThe mother and father are separated but he is very involved in the childrens lives He lived in a separate residence He had partial custody of the children DCS would not give the children to the father They said Because you support the mothernThe two sisters were taken off of there feedings tubes and were starvednAugust st Mom sent a letter to the hospital asking if the girls were on a drug trial no response was ever gi