http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8060672.stm
An alert has gone out to police forces across the US to search for a mother who fled with her cancer-stricken teenage son to avoid chemotherapy.
Colleen Hauser told a Minnesota judge she wished to treat her son Daniel's cancer with natural healing methods before she disappeared with him.
She failed to attend a court hearing on Tuesday after an x-ray showed Daniel, 13, had a tumour in his chest.
Doctors say he will probably die without conventional treatment.
He has been diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma, a highly curable form of cancer when treated with chemotherapy and radiation.
But he and his parents rejected chemotherapy after a single treatment, Colleen Hauser saying that putting toxic substances in his body violated the family's religious convictions.
Sheriff Rich Hoffmann in Brown County said that the boy's father, Anthony, was co-operating with investigators as an arrest warrant was issued for Mrs Hauser.
He was quoted by some US media outlets as saying the pair might be in California, heading for Mexico.
Court order
"I just wish we could get to Colleen and tell her to come in," said Sheriff Hoffmann.
"This is not going to go away. It's a court order."
Speaking at the family's farm near Sleepy Eye, a town of 3,500 about 80 miles (130km) from Minneapolis, Mr Hauser said his wife and son had left without telling him their plans, and that he had not heard from them.
He said he hoped his wife would either get their son treatment for his illness or would bring him home.
"If he's being cared for, and it's going to help him, I think it's going to be a good thing," he said, quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
Colleen Hauser said she had been treating the boy's cancer with herbal supplements, vitamins, ionised water and other natural alternatives.
She earlier told a judge she wished to treat the disease with methods advocated by an American Indian religious group known as the Nemenhah Band.
The group's founder said Mrs Hauser had made a mistake by running away from the law.
Phillip Cloudpiler Landis, who calls himself the Band's principal medicine chief, said: "You don't solve anything by disregarding the order of the judge."
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Yea, seen on HLP.
Idiot is too soft of a word for such people... But, oh well, it's their life, they can give it away to lots of suffering and etc. if they want to. No such c**p expected to be happening in my country though, cause otherwise I'd do a "plastic surgery" to such people.
Idiot is too soft of a word for such people... But, oh well, it's their life, they can give it away to lots of suffering and etc. if they want to. No such c**p expected to be happening in my country though, cause otherwise I'd do a "plastic surgery" to such people.
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It's not her life, it's her 13 year old sons. Perhaps 'murderer' is more accurate, but I think idiot is sadly undervalued nowadays.ShadowGorrath wrote:Yea, seen on HLP.
Idiot is too soft of a word for such people... But, oh well, it's their life, they can give it away to lots of suffering and etc. if they want to. No such c**p expected to be happening in my country though, cause otherwise I'd do a "plastic surgery" to such people.
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What mentality do you have to have to want your son to die young, possibly even suffering, just cause your stuborn?
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Hang on a sec. If the husband has claimed that she should bring the son back or get him treated she's basically lost any right to claim she's even acting as the child's parent.
Parent A says treatment. Parent B says alternative therapy. Government says treatment. End of any discussion.
Parent A says treatment. Parent B says alternative therapy. Government says treatment. End of any discussion.