Pictured: The shocking decline of 15-year-old girl 'kidnapped' by doctors nine months ago who her parents claim are using her as a 'guinea pig for medical experiments'

• Justina Pelletier, 15, admitted to Boston Children's Hospital nine months ago suffering from flu on suggestion of normal doctor who was away at time
• She hasn't returned home since and is locked in psychiatric ward where staff have told her 'she is never going home'
• Tufts doctors said she had Mitochondrial Disease but doctors at Boston Children's diagnosed 'Somatoform Disorder' in four days
• Somatoform is a rare mental illness where she 'imagines physical pain' 
• Department for Children and Families handed hospital custody after parents questioned diagnosis even though they claim they had backing of previous doctors
• Can only see her family for hour a week and calls home are listened in on
• Distraught parents reveal their Kafkaesque nightmare to MailOnline
• She is a shadow of her former ice-skating self and can no longer not walk unaided

By ANNETTE WITHERIDGE IN WEST HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

PUBLISHED: 18:27 EST, 25 November 2013 | UPDATED: 06:26 EST, 26 November 2013

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Like something out of a Kafka novel, Justina Pelletier has been 'disappeared'.

The 15-year-old was admitted to hospital nine months ago suffering from a bout of the flu and has been locked away in a stark psychiatric unit at Boston Children's Hospital ever since with sex abuse victims and children who have self-harmed themselves.

For her devastated parents and her three sisters, her plight is almost too heartbreaking to bear. Unable to contact her beloved family or friends, her every move is monitored.

Everything sacred to a teenager: her phone, iPad, music and collection of pink fluffy toys – has been taken away from her. She can only see her family for one hour a week and calls home are listened in on.

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