The man authorities believe could be with a Minnesota teenager who ran away to avoid chemotherapy did the same thing more than a decade ago in Massachusetts.
Officials believe Billy Joe Best could be traveling with 13-year-old Daniel Hauser and his mother. The Hausers allegedly fled New Ulm, Minn., after a court-ordered medical exam showed his Hodgkin’s lymphoma had worsened.
In 1994, 16-year-old Best ran away to avoid having more chemotherapy to fight his Hodgkin’s disease. He returned after three weeks in Houston when his parents promised they would not force him to have the treatments.
Daniel Hauser and his mother, Colleen Hauser, apparently left their southern Minnesota home sometime after a doctor’s appointment and court-ordered X-ray on Monday showed his tumor had grown.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg, who had ruled last week that Daniel’s parents were medically neglecting him, issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Colleen Hauser and ruled her in contempt of court. Rodenberg also ordered that Daniel be placed in foster care and immediately evaluated by a cancer specialist for treatment.
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Officials believe Billy Joe Best could be traveling with 13-year-old Daniel Hauser and his mother. The Hausers allegedly fled New Ulm, Minn., after a court-ordered medical exam showed his Hodgkin’s lymphoma had worsened.
In 1994, 16-year-old Best ran away to avoid having more chemotherapy to fight his Hodgkin’s disease. He returned after three weeks in Houston when his parents promised they would not force him to have the treatments.
Daniel Hauser and his mother, Colleen Hauser, apparently left their southern Minnesota home sometime after a doctor’s appointment and court-ordered X-ray on Monday showed his tumor had grown.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg, who had ruled last week that Daniel’s parents were medically neglecting him, issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Colleen Hauser and ruled her in contempt of court. Rodenberg also ordered that Daniel be placed in foster care and immediately evaluated by a cancer specialist for treatment.
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5 comments:
Re runaway from chemo:
If we live in the Land of the Free, there must be CHOICE! Choice for another option.
There are a lot of quacks out there, and moneymen, but the trend to natural health is growing. It has been around longer than chemo. It's clearly safer.
What is preventing our CHOICE? The medical and BigPharma lobby!
Lobbying should be outlawed!
I wholly support this teenager's decision to run. It's sometimes the only way to achieve justice - sadly.
I hope Daniel Hauser gets safely away!
To the two people that left comments, your obviously NOT parents. Come'on he has CANCER. Although I am a believer of natural remedies and holistic healing, I would NEVER deny my children ANY medical care that they needed in order to SURVIVE. Mr. Hauser and his wife are obviously VERY uneducated people, I quote Mr. hauser as saying "Chemo isn't fool proof", does he honestly think Natural healing IS? He's a joke. My mother in law was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a rough time going through chemo and radiation, it SUCKS I'm sure but she has been cancer free for 4 years and has been 100% healthy since. I can't even believe a doctor would have to OBTAIN a court order to get a child care he needs in order to survive, there are kids AND adults in other countries (and the U.S. for that matter) that would give their left arm for treatment. This is the MOST selfish thing I have EVER heard of.
Judge John Rodenberg is a cold hearted - perhaps even heartless - person.
I hope the people remember his actions come relection time.
Treatments are often painful and they only delay the enevitable. Daniel Hauser should be allowed to refuse.
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