Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant'
18th December 2012, 16:47
Not sure if this story belongs in Politics...just feel it's an interesting topic (parental rights over the rights of the child and state / judicial interference).
A seven-year-old boy with a brain tumour should undergo surgery against his mother's wishes, a court has ruled.
Neon Roberts had a tumour removed last year and his mother Sally was fighting legal action for him to have radiotherapy.
Doctors told the High Court the question had now become whether he had to have an "urgent" operation because some of the tumour remained.
Mr Justice Bodey ruled the surgery should go ahead on Wednesday.
Neon's case was in the Family Division of the High Court because New Zealand-born Mrs Roberts, 37, was opposing action taken by a number of organisations which wanted him to have radiotherapy.
She earlier went into hiding with her son because she did not want him to have the treatment, sparking a nationwide search on 5 December before both were found unharmed.
(More here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20769155)
A seven-year-old boy with a brain tumour should undergo surgery against his mother's wishes, a court has ruled.
Neon Roberts had a tumour removed last year and his mother Sally was fighting legal action for him to have radiotherapy.
Doctors told the High Court the question had now become whether he had to have an "urgent" operation because some of the tumour remained.
Mr Justice Bodey ruled the surgery should go ahead on Wednesday.
Neon's case was in the Family Division of the High Court because New Zealand-born Mrs Roberts, 37, was opposing action taken by a number of organisations which wanted him to have radiotherapy.
She earlier went into hiding with her son because she did not want him to have the treatment, sparking a nationwide search on 5 December before both were found unharmed.
(More here - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-20769155)