Mom Charged With Withholding Sons Chemotherapy
So once again we have a case where a parent plays Russian roulette with her child’s life. A little boy has non hodgkins lymphoma which the doctor say is highly curable. He get treated and goes into remission, however he must still continue chemo for up to a year after that to make sure the cancer won’t return and is completely gone.
This poor child’s parents are not together and the boy was in moms custody. After the doctor found out that mom had not been picking up the chemo from the pharmacy, he called the father to tell him the boy was sick again and in the hospital. The father had no idea what was going on and the mom was arrested and charged.
Dad has the boy now and says he is very ill and only has a 10% chance of making it.
I don’t even know where to begin with this story. Why would a mother do that to her own child? I realize that chemo is very difficult especially for a child, but if it’s a choice between her child dying and feeling ill for a while, I’ll take the ill child. What a shame.