PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Malofiy said he found proof in a disciplinary email to Jenssen and asked Judge Gwendolyn Bright to make the email public. Bright turned him down, but Malofiy was not discouraged.“It’s only a matter of time before all the truth comes out. There’s a smoking gun and that will be revealed in time,” he said. Malofiy represents 12 families that Jenssen baselessly accused of abuse. Ten others are also suing."
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STORY: "Attorney seeks to make disciplinary email public in 'medical kidnapping' suit against Lehigh Valley doctor," by Reporter Pat Loeb, published by KYW Newsradio, on February 17, 2026. (Pat Loeb began her career at KYW Newsradio just after graduating from Temple University, but she then took a very long detour into public radio, various print publications, and the Pew Center for Civic Journalism. Along the way, she worked as a foreign correspondent in Asia and covered the Department of Homeland Security, education, courts and business.)
GIST: "A hearing on Tuesday centered on potential new evidence in the bizarre case of a Lehigh Valley doctor accused of over-diagnosing child abuse, resulting in parents losing custody of their children.
Several families filed a lawsuit against the Lehigh Valley Health Network — now owned by Jefferson — in 2024. The suit accuses Dr. Debra Jenssen, then the medical director of the network’s child advocacy center, of separating families when their parents sought medical treatment for routine illnesses or injuries and found themselves accused of abuse.
It also claims the network left Jenssen in place even after her misdiagnoses became clear. Jenssen has since retired.
Attorney Francis Malofiy spoke to his clients after the hearing on his motion to make public a document he uncovered in the course of the suit.
Malofiy said he found proof in a disciplinary email to Jenssen and asked Judge Gwendolyn Bright to make the email public. Bright turned him down, but Malofiy was not discouraged.
“It’s only a matter of time before all the truth comes out. There’s a smoking gun and that will be revealed in time,” he said.
Malofiy represents 12 families that Jenssen baselessly accused of abuse. Ten others are also suing. Efforts to reach Jenssen were unsuccessful."
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SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AMFINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
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