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The Battle for Justina Pelletier

On which side does the truth lie?

Series2022Limited seriesEnded

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English
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4
Episode length
60m

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The story

Explore the story of Justina Pelletier, a 14-year-old girl who entered a Boston hospital with a mysterious set of symptoms and quickly became a ward of the state, leaving her family in disbelief. The events that followed inspired an anonymous computer hacker to take matters into his own hands and sparked a debate about parental rights, medical child abuse and the gray areas in b