Daniel Hauser, mother return to Minn.

[Akoto]

Source: KTSP.com/CNN

The Brown County Sheriff's Office says Daniel Hauser and his mother have returned to Minnesota.

Officials say they will hold a press conference at 5 p.m. in front of the Brown County Courthouse.

Hauser, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma, and his mother Colleen left Minnesota Tuesday so the teen could avoid chemotherapy. They were believed to have fled to Mexico, according to authorities.

Doctors say Hauser has a cancerous tumor growing in his chest that's likely to kill him without chemotherapy, but his family prefers natural healing methods.

Read more: http://kstp.com/news/stories/S946905.shtml?cat=206

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I have updated with the first online article I could find, but I originally heard about this as CNN breaking news.

[Sultana]

1. What the fuck are the natural healing methods they speak of?

Assholes!

Let him wither away, save other people.

[ecoalex51]

5. Some natural therapies work

It depends on the type of cancer.There are many who have been cured by a change of diet,lifestyle,and special therapies such as organic raw juicing.My uncle Gene beat colon cancer diagnosed 35 years ago,Jerry Brunetti,and a few others have beat cancer without surgery,chemo,or radiation.The cancer I have tho,oral squamous cell,must be treated conventionally.I would of pursued a non toxic avenue had it existed.The Gerson Institute,William Hitt institute,and other clinics are successful,with some cancers. To dismiss all alternatives carte blanche is probably from not knowing about the successful alternatives for some cancers.Like organic/eco farming,there are alternatives.

[Zhade]

11. No evidence supports your assertion.

NT!

[wolfie001]

2. Justice says: Arrest the mother, treat the boy

Fair enough. He's been brainwashed by his fanatical B***H of a mother. Don't blame him. She's as selfish as Nancy Grace's "Tot Mom"!!

[Zhade]

12. I object to your sexist epithet. Otherwise, I agree.

NT!

[shanti]

3. i know of

a grown woman that was diagnosed with uterine cancer. when she went into the dr. to verify it, they opened her up, took a peek and closed her back up, she was so filled with tumors. this was 3-4 years ago. her mother died from cancer and her sister also has cancer.

the woman is a certifiable nutcase. she has consistently refused chemo, using "herbal" preparations, "black salve", and jaysus instead.

i simply don't understand people like this, especially when it has to do with one's own child!

[wolfie001]

4. well my take on this is...

...that religion as a rule tries to portray reasonable people as somehow the enemy. Therefore, medical authorities are also because they are questioning the patient's religious beliefs. It's a strawman argument that leads to premature death and the perps as it were (the fundamentalists), still manage to tar and feather the medical establishment.
Reason has no place in religion, as I see it.
By the way, I'm a lifelong recovering Catholic.

[JonQ]

8. Religious/personal beliefs are an acceptable reason for an adult

18+ to kill themselves through neglect. But under that, sorry, you're a minor and we have a right/obligation as a nation to protect you from stupidity.

[ButterflyBlood]

7. No "jaysus" involved, the family isn't Christian

They belong to some traditonal Native American religious sect. Please get your facts right before you speak.

[dflprincess]

13. The parents were both raised Catholic and are not Native Americans

they sect they've bought into is apparently a mish-mash of some traditional Native American beliefs thought up by a con man who claims to be a descendent of Chief Joseph.

In most instances the Catholic Church does not shun conventional medicince (unless reproduction is involved) and I have never heard of a Native American religion that does though there are so many native religions there might be some that do.

The child had been seen by doctors in their hometown as well as those at Children's Hospital, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Clinic. It was not until after his first round of chemo (which did shrink the tumor) that the parents decided to stop conventional therapy despite the high odds that it would be successful. In light of that, refusing therapy based on religious beliefs sounds pretty bogus.

[shanti]

14. if you

re-read my post, i was referring to the woman i knew of. get your OWN facts straight. :eyes:

[steven johnson]

6. Mom returns voluntarily with cancer-stricken boy

Source: AP

NEW ULM, Minn. -- A 13-year-old cancer patient and his mother, who fled Minnesota last week to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy for him, returned voluntarily Monday, and the boy was evaluated by a doctor, a sheriff and the family's attorney said.
Daniel Hauser was "immediately checked over medically" when he and his mother arrived on a charter flight at 3 a.m., Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffmann said.
He did not say where the pair have been since they missed a court hearing last Tuesday, prompting a nationwide search, or whether Daniel received medical treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphoma while they were gone.

AP Photo - This May 20, 2009 photo shows Anthony Hauser in Sleepy Eye, Minn., talking about his thirteen-year-old son, Daniel, and wife, Colleen, who are being sought by authorities after they failed to show up for a court appearance. The search for the Minnesota mother who fled with her 13-year-old cancer-stricken son to escape court-ordered chemotherapy has turned to Southern California after authorities received a tip. But the officials leading the search that continued Thursday acknowledged that Colleen Hauser and her son, Daniel, could already be in Mexico, possibly to seek treatment for his Hodgkin's lymphoma.
  Mom returns voluntarily with cancer-stricken boy
"It is a good day as Daniel and Colleen Hauser have been safely returned to Minnesota," Hoffmann said.


Read more: http://www.modbee.com/breakingnews/story/717152.html

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I think this kid deserves the 90% chance for a cure modern medical science has to offer.

[Zhade]

10. Good. Parents don't have the right to kill their kids with their delusions.

NT!

[proteus_lives]

9. Take that boy away from them!

And get him the help he needs!