Judge Rules ‘Green Food’ Isn’t Enough To Treat Boys Cancer
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.- 13-year-old Daniel Hauser, who has Hodgkin’s lymphoma told a judge he got so ill he couldn’t walk the one time he got the treatment. Daniel is afraid the chemotherapy will kill him.
“I’d fight it if I had to take it again,” Daniel said, according to a transcript of his court testimony. “I’d punch them and I’d kick them.”
The boy’s parents are citing religious beliefs as their objecting to Chemotherapy and opted for “alternative medicines,” though doctors said he would almost certainly die without the chemo treatment, reports the Associated Press.
Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg ruled Friday the boy needs to be re-evaluated to see if he would still benefit from chemotherapy treatments — or if his cancer has advanced to a point where it is already too late.
Doctors believe the boys cancer had a 90 percent chance of being cured with chemotherapy and radiation. Without those treatments, doctors say his chances of survival are only 5 percent. Child protection workers are accusing Daniel’s parents of medical neglect, and went to court seeking custody.
Court testimony indicated his tumor shrank after first round of chemotherapy, but has since grown. Daniel’s mother, Colleen Hauser, testified: “My son is not in any medical danger at this point.”
Despite testimony from five doctors who agreed Daniel needed chemotherapy — his mother has been treating her sons cancer with vitamins, ionized water, herbal supplements and other natural alternatives from information she received on the Internet.
Daniel told the judge during closed testimony that he has also been eating “green food” such as broccoli and beans, as well as eggs and fruit.
Rodenberg noted that because of his age, Daniel “lacks the ability to give informed consent to medical procedures.”
Rodenberg wrote that state statutes require parents to provide necessary the necessary medical care for a child. The statutes say alternative and complementary health care methods aren’t sufficient.
“If the Minnesota Legislature ever reconsiders the relevant statutes, I am confident that I join all of the others involved in this matter in hoping, and indeed in praying, that Daniel Hauser lives to testify at that hearing,” Rodenberg said.
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