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MADRID (AP) -- A British judge has given the go-ahead for a boy whose parents had been jailed after they took him out of a British hospital without informing doctors to receive treatment in the Czech Republic.
Britain's Press Association news agency reports the judge agreed that 5-year-old Ashya King can be taken to Prague by his parents for the treatment they want to prevent a brain tumor from growing again.
The King's Spanish lawyer and a spokeswoman for the hospital in Malaga where Ashya is staying did not answer calls Friday seeking comment.
British authorities issued a warrant for the couple's arrest after they took the boy out of a hospital without informing doctors. They were found near Malaga and arrested but released from a jail near Madrid on Tuesday following a public outcry.
originally posted by: Mary Rose
The British state chasing down these parents in Spain on the rationale that they are protecting the child's life . . .
British authorities issued a warrant for the couple's arrest after they took the boy out of a hospital without informing doctors. They were found near Malaga and arrested but released from a jail near Madrid on Tuesday following a public outcry.
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: tanstaafl
What? Let the child die first *then* act? Screw the child's rights. Let them die a slow, painful and easily preventable death, THEN we'll wag our finger at the parents and their ignorant, idiotic beliefs. Madness.
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: tanstaafl
Do you not realize how profoundly moronic and irresponsible "let the child die first, then we'll step in" sounds to any reasonable, rational person? Child protection services exist for a reason.
originally posted by: GetHyped
a reply to: tanstaafl
Bathing an infant in a bath tub is not even remotely the same as denying a child necessary medical intervention for easily treatable (but potentially fatal) illnesses because the parent wishes to pray instead. What planet do you live on?
You seem so hell bent on defending irresponsible and downright dangerous behavior of parents
without so much as a shred of concern for the children in their care in some fallacious logic of the parent's stupid beliefs trumping the rights of the child.
But as far as you're concerned, let the child die and simply "mourn the loss of the child". You're messed up in the head if this is your attitude.
Sorry GetHyped, but your position is the irrational, illogical and indefensible one.