Arrest Warrant: Teen Cancer Victim's Mom - Daniel Hauser

May 19, 2009 - A mother has gone on the run with her cancer-suffering son after a US court tried to force the boy to have chemotherapy.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Colleen Hauser, who has been using herbal supplements to treat her 13-year-old son Daniel, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma.

The cancer is considered to be highly curable with conventional treatment but the youngster has had just one chemotherapy session.

Daniel and his parents said he would be having "alternative medicines", citing religious beliefs.

A judge ruled Daniel was being medically neglected by his parents, and Minnesota state authorities began to seek custody of the teenager.

When Mrs Hauser and her son failed to attend a court hearing on his welfare, the arrest warrant was issued.

The family's doctor, James Joyce, said Daniel's tumour had grown and that he needed immediate assessment by a pediatric cancer doctor.

Colleen Hauser told an earlier hearing her son was "not in any medical danger".

She said she had been treating his cancer with herbal supplements, vitamins, ionised water and other natural alternatives.

But the judge ruled that state laws required parents to provide necessary medical care for a child - and that complementary health care methods were not enough.

He also said Daniel, who cannot read, did not understand the risks and benefits of chemotherapy and did not believe he was ill.

The Hausers, who have eight children, believe in the "do no harm" philosophy of the Nemenhah Band, a Missouri-based religious group that believes in natural healing methods advocated by some American Indians.

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[breyboyful]

Leave the family alone! They already have enough to deal with.

[mark200666]

is he dead now?

[5haman]

@Zander101084 got my middle finger raised for you and your medical degree my friend..

[Zander101084]

too bad these people aren't a little smarter. I guess intelligence has an evolutionary advantage now a days.

[Zander101084]

@5haman do you have a medical degree? no? then SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU UNEDUCATED SELFISH NARCISSISTIC PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!!!!!!!

[jtking2504]

The moral to the story - AVOID WESTERN DRUG PUSHING DOCTORS, basically big pharma whores, seek out real medicine, the only kind that really works because it isn't driven by drugs and profit.

[5haman]

take a good llok at this boy.... your goverment is killing him... your next....

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[farriskc]

this is a perfect answer to.......is religion dangerous and child abuse

[ThePinkgymnast]

chemo kept my grandma living longer but might have killed her not all doctors are liars one guy from india told my grandad to take my grandma home hwen she was dieing because she was going to die and it would make more sence for her to die in her house