article_snippet.sent: A Connecticut teenager with cancer who took Cassandra Fortin fight to stop Cassandra Fortin chemotherapy treatments to Connecticut Supreme Court must remain in custody of the state even though Cassandra Fortin disease has gone into remission, a judge ruled on Wednesday.
article_snippet.sent: Connecticut Supreme Court Judge Carl Taylor in Middletown, Connecticut, denied requests made last month by attorneys for both Cassandra and Cassandra mother, Jackie Fortin, that the 17-year-old be released from the temporary custody of the state Department of Children and Families, or that Cassandra be permitted to visit Cassandra in the hospital.
article_snippet.sent: a judge ruled on Wednesday a judge must remain in DCF custody until completing court-ordered chemotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.
article_snippet.sent: : Cassandra has been at Children's Medical Center in Hartford since December receiving chemo to which Cassandra was originally opposed .
article_snippet.sent: In state care: The Department of Children and Families took temporary custody after Cassandra refused Cassandra chemotherapy treatments for Hodgkin lymphoma .
article_snippet.sent: The state agency last fall won temporary custody of Cassandra after Cassandra and Cassandra mother argued Cassandra did not want chemo treatments despite the risk of dying without them.
article_snippet.sent: the Connecticut Supreme Court then ruled against Cassandra's claim that Cassandra was mature enough to make Cassandra own medical decisions.
article_snippet.sent: But after Cassandra was declared by doctors to be in remission in March, Cassandra lawyer Joshua Michtom and attorneys for her mother appealed at a closed-door court hearing seeking permission to allow Cassandra to go home to complete treatments, or at least to permit her mother to visit Cassandra in the hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Ms Fortin, left, said the hospital tried to prevent Cassandra mother, Jackie, right, from visiting Cassandra room .
article_snippet.sent: Ms Fortin, left, said Cassandra was behind Cassandra daughter's decision to not undergo cancer treatment.
article_snippet.sent: DCF Commissioner Joette Katz said in a statement Wednesday DCF Commissioner Joette Katz agency is 'looking forward to the day later this month when Cassandra can happily return home after Cassandra treatment is completed and the doctors are confident that Cassandra has beaten the cancer.'
article_snippet.sent: Both the teen and Cassandra said Cassandra didn't want to poison Cassandra body, and Cassandra ran away after two chemo treatments.
article_snippet.sent: Michael Taylor, an attorney for the teen's mother, Jackie Fortin, said if the judge will not lift the temporary custody order, Michael Taylor, an attorney for the teen's mother, Jackie Fortin would like for the teen at least to be able to visit with Cassandra mother at the hospital.
article_snippet.sent: Lawyers for Cassandra and Cassandra then sought an injunction prohibiting medical treatment but failed.
highlights_snippet.sent: Cassandra Fortin, 17, wanted to decline chemotherapy for Cassandra Fortin cancer .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: The teenager complained that Cassandra Fortin had been 'treated like an animal'
  Cassandra Fortin said the hospital refused to allow Cassandra Fortin mother to visit Cassandra Fortin .