Mother Fails To Comply With Court Order for 13 Year Old Cancer Patient
13 year Old Daniel Hauser
CBS News reports that today Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for the mother of a 13-year-old boy resisting chemotherapy after the pair missed a court hearing on his welfare.” The wife apparently fled with the boy.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg also ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in protective custody so he can get proper medical treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The cancer is considered highly curable with proper treatment, but Daniel quit chemo after a single treatment and with his parents opted instead for “alternative medicines,” citing religious beliefs. That led authorities to seek custody. Rodenberg last week ruled that Daniel’s parents, Colleen and Anthony Hauser, were medically neglecting their son.
The family was due in court Tuesday to tell the judge results of a chest X-ray and arrangements for an oncologist. But Daniel’s father was the only one who appeared. He told Rodenberg he last saw Colleen Hauser on Monday evening.
“She said she was going to leave,” Hauser testified. “She said, `That’s all you need to know.’ And that’s all I know.”
He said his wife left her cell phone at home.
The family’s doctor, James Joyce, testified by telephone that Daniel’s tumor has grown and he needs immediate assessment by a pediatric cancer doctor.
Joyce said he examined Daniel on Monday, with an X-ray showing that his tumor had grown to the size it was when he was first diagnosed.
“He had basically gotten back all the trouble he had in January,” the doctor said.
Daniel’s cancer is curable so if the boy doesn’t get treatment, he will die. Based on this article, the mother is under the false impression that Daniel is not in any medical danger. According to
According to CNN, the Judge’s order said ”It is imperative that Daniel receive the attention of an oncologist as soon as possible…His best interests require it.”
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This is complete bullshit on the part of the judge who made this order. Has anyone asked the boy whether he wants this treatment? If he doesn’t want it, then it is totally within his rights and that of his mother to refuse the treatment. FUCK the government for interfering with people’s right to choose!
Does It Matter
May 20, 2009 at 8:49 am
Add kidnapping and child endangerment to that growing list of legal problems this family is having. How will these religious convictions help them pay for legal fees when their child dies (manslaughter or child abuse charges)?
This is the real world. Any religion that would tell its followers not to seek medical attention when someone is sick is demented. We don’t live in the Middle Ages. Heck, those people called the air we breathe ether. No doubt these same people think Caribbean spiritualism is devil worship, but basically what these parents are espousing is nothing short of voodooism.
I feel so sorry for this boy. My tumors were gone after two months. And yeah, I felt lousy, but only slightly more lousy than before I knew what was wrong with me– and the knowledge that I was recovering and eventually in remission was the greatest compromise for six months of chemotherapy.
skyewriter
May 20, 2009 at 9:35 am
this woman makes me vomit…she i sunfit nd she should be jailed..no mercy.
paul
May 26, 2009 at 12:24 am