Ashya King missing: Police hunt five-year-old boy

[Fly]

What the hell do the parents think they are doing. If this is because of their religious beliefs,
yet again, it shows how religion can make some people act so stupid.
If it isn't religion, what is it . . . .
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/police-in-race-against-time-to-find-seriously-ill-boy-9698442.html

[simondjuk]

I dont understand it, would they let the poor child die?  If its right in the report then he could starve to death.

Parents should be charged with endangering life

[Old Cruser]

I don't know that much about the Jehovah faith TBH and can't understand why they would let their son have the OP and then take him away - unless they have been told no more can be done?
Watched the news earlier and not much was said about his prognosis.
If he's in a wheelchair and can't speak or eat he's in a pretty bad way poor lamb.
All will be revealed eventually.

[Slacker]

If an adult had an imaginary friend he'd probably be sectioned, if a lot of people have the same one they call it religion

[Old Cruser]

@ slacker that could go for Christians as well couldn't it?

[simondjuk]

Apparently, he's been found.  Not sure of his condition or how.

[Fly]

The family have been found.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737458/Missing-Ashya-King-taken-parents-Southampton-General-Hospital.html
I just don't get this one. Best I shut up !

[Old Cruser]

That reads to me as if the parents didn't want anymore treatment.
'Aggressive Tumour' 
 'latest operation'
 'parents not wanting to accept their child's fate'

Not a good situation for any family to be in.
I won't judge just feel so sorry for the situation.

[Fly]

Now the father is saying he took his son from hospital because the NHS wouldn't pay for a certain type of treatment.
He thought he could get it by paying for it elsewhere. A treatment the lad is still probably not going to get.
A very very risky decision taking a sick child from a hospital bed IMHO

http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/father-of-fiveyearold-with-brain-tumour-explains-why-he-fled-to-spain-30549788.html

[Old Cruser]

It's no secret what our family has been through during the last months - stage four and aggressive?
Sometimes there is nothing to be done, these tumours are rapid, so sorry for the boy and his family.

[Old Cruser]

Does anyone else think the parents are being dealt with a bit rough?
Ok so they shouldn't have run off with their child, but being handcuffed and not allowed to see their child?
Am I being too soft?

[Pete]

No, you're not being too soft.

This situation requires a soft touch, not brute force. IMHO

[Slacker]

Listening to Vine it seems total lies were used to issue arrest warrant;

They took him away in the hope of hem getting revolutionary  treatment abroad that was not on offer here.

The battery wasn't running out on his food pump it could easily be recharged.

 No time for religious nuts but I don't think it was the case on this occasion

[Fly]

I still think they made a bad decision to remove the lad from hospital. It's not like they had already got funding by selling a property or even a treatment appointment. This child is poorly to say the least. What if he fell seriously ill, collapsed lung etc during the journey. Yes I know it sounds a bit extreme, but would you do what these people have done.
If I had the money, maybe so, but I don't have the nedical knowledge to know if I'm doing right.

Money isn't everything, and it can't buy you love !! 

[Slacker]

There was a case on the radio yesterday where a child was given no hope and the parents moved him elsewhere for treatment and he survived