[Boston.com] A man who attacked the computer network of a renowned hospital in Boston to protest the care of a teenager at the center of a high-profile custody battle was sentenced Thursday to more than 10 years in prison.
Martin Gottesfeld said he has no regrets for the cyberattacks he orchestrated on Boston Children’s Hospital and a treatment home in 2014, which cost the facilities tens of thousands of dollars and disrupted operations for days.
Gottesfeld, a self-proclaimed member of the international hacking group Anonymous who calls himself an “Obama-era political prisoner,” insists his actions weren’t criminal because he says was trying to save the life of Justina Pelletier.
The Connecticut teenager was placed in state custody in Massachusetts after her parents disputed Boston Children’s Hospital doctors’ diagnosis of their daughter.
Pelletier had previously been diagnosed with mitochondrial disease,
| ...by specialists at Tufts Medical Center, which is not in the habit of providing misdiagnoses... |
a disorder that affects cellular energy production, but Boston Children’s Hospital diagnosed her problems as psychiatric.
The case drew national media attention and ignited a debate over parental rights. Pelletier was later returned to her parents on a judge’s order.
| ...over a year later, after the doctors at Boston Children’s nearly killed her by acting on their misdiagnosis. She still has not completely recovered. |
| The Daily Wire has the background on the Pelletier story as of last November here, and more on Mr. Gottesfeld’s story here. |
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