Posted on 04/13/2018 8:07:36 AM PDT by ebb tide
The parents of baby Alfie Evans have lost custody over their son and he has now become a “ward of the court,” effective noon today. The news was shared by the family’s media coordinator.
“We are outraged that in further legally indefensible steps during the night, the hospital obtained a faxed order making Alfie a ward of the court, removing parental rights from Tom and Kate over their son Alfie, taking effect at noon today,” a press release authorized by the family’s legal team states.
“This once again is logically backwards, as all parents are responsible to protect their child from threats to life, and the hospital is effectively claiming that it is more dangerous for Alfie to live in peace with love and quality care than to die by the hands of his doctors. This is not a sign of a free country; this is dictatorship of the state.”
Alfie Evans in a recent photo with his eyes open, sucking his soother. Thomas Evans / Facebook
The news comes after Alfie’s parents Tom and Kate attempted to remove their child from Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool yesterday afternoon after being assured that Alfie was neither a “prisoner” nor a ward of the court. They had a medical team prepared to transport Alfie to a plane standing by. Alfie’s family want him to receive treatment at the Bambino Gesù hospital in Rome. However, the hospital called police, who threatened to arrest Alfie’s father for assault if he took his son.
"Alder Hey hospital called in police to stop Alfie’s transfer, locking all doors, setting off a fire alarm and removing all children from the PICU. This merely proves first that Alder Hey is acting in violation of parental rights, second that Alfie is indeed a prisoner if the police are being used, and third their tactics are simply hysterical," states the press release.
Hundreds of “Alfie’s Army” supporters surrounded the hospital yesterday evening, demanding the release of the sick child. They blocked the roads for hours while allowing free passage of pedestrians and ambulances.
'Alfie's Army' supporters show up in front of Alder Hey hospital, April 12, 2018.
Later in the evening, Alfie’s dad told supporters that he had been threatened by police with arrest for so much as touching his son.
“If I take Alfie, I’m gonna get arrested for assault,” Tom Evans said he was told by police. “If I pick Alfie up, with legal responsibilities and parental responsibilities, I’m getting told that I’m gonna get arrested for assault.” He made the comments in a Facebook Live video recorded outside the hospital.
The press release from the family called the police activity “unlawful.”
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“The fact is the police were committing unlawful detention by blocking the parents.”
A court order was handed down Thursday, mandating Alfie be kept on life support until Monday, when the boy’s parents and legal team will again return to court in yet another attempt to keep their son alive. They will ask a Court of Appeal to allow their 23-month-old son to remain on life support and receive further treatment for his undiagnosed condition. They claim that Alfie has been illegally imprisoned (Habeas Corpus) by the hospital.
The parents hope to move their son to a different location so he can receive better treatment. The position of Alder Hey Children’s Hospital is that dying is in the child’s best interests.
“The family wishes to immediately move Alfie by air ambulance to the Bambino Gesu hospital in Rome, which has offered free care for the rest of Alfie’s life, including the comfort and health-enhancing standard tracheostomy and PEG feeding tube which Alder Hey refuses to give,” the press release states.
“The parents are delighted to accept the generous offer by the prestigious Carlo Besta Neurological Institute in Milan, putting a staff of 300 at Alfie’s service for directing comprehensive diagnostics. This will determine the course of Alfie’s future care and allow the family to put the long-denied questions and concerns to rest. After the diagnostics and resulting care plan are followed, Alfie will be able to be transferred to live at home with his parents.”
The family says Alfie does not need palliative care, “because he is not dying.”
“He has suffered injury to his brain of an undiagnosed origin, but he is improving as he grows and overdoses of sedating drugs are reduced.”
“We can only imagine what could happen when Alfie receives proper diagnostics and standard humane care, and the parents are prepared to love and care for their son in any case,” states the press release.
In other news, somehow 96 year old Prince Phillip has been granted a hip transplant which he is now recovering from with family around him.
Until some judges understand the consequences of their activist actions this will continue. I wouldn’t blame the kid’s dad one bit.
This is simply the logical result of an all-powerful nanny state.
Once the government has your kid’s life in their control, they’ve got you by the balls.
Notice how the protestor’s are unarmed. Their last resort has already been stripped. This soon to be murdered boy needs to become the poster boy of socialized medicine.
The British government is about as morally credible as the Maduro government in Venezuela.
Its elected but authoritarian.
“However, the hospital called police, who threatened to arrest Alfie’s father for assault if he took his son.”
Another example of why you NEVER give up your right to keep and bear arms!
When the police are acting to kill a child then they DESERVE TO BE SHOT.
bfl
- Gerald R. Ford
This euthanasia frenzy will only end when those who commit such acts are made afraid of retribution. In effect, determine who the murderers are: doctors and nurses, and kill them based on how many they have murdered.
These should not be nice executions, but painful, “Dexter” style killings, that are graphic and gory, with many photos taken, that will be put on the Internet in other nations. With explanations of why.
While they may die easily, their bodies should be mutilated and made horrifying.
It would probably take fewer than a dozen such cases in the UK before many medical personnel would no longer be willing to murder.
Children’s hospitals are run by leftist Nazis. Stay away.
Children’s hospitals are run by leftist Nazis. Stay away.
Prayers for Alfie and for his parents.
Disarm your citizens, and they can’t fight back against tyranny.
So when do the doctors plan to strangle him?
Or is the preferred method just injecting some poison?
And we are supposed to defend this country?
Im a pretty reasonable guy but if anyone ever forcefully prevented me from helping my child it would be one of the last things they ever did consequences be damned
This bullsh!t is what democrats want in this country!!!!
Latest news:
A court order was handed down Thursday, mandating Alfie be kept on life support until Monday, when the boy’s parents and legal team will again return to court in yet another attempt to keep their son alive. They will ask a Court of Appeal to allow their 23-month-old son to remain on life support and receive further treatment for his undiagnosed condition. They claim that Alfie has been illegally imprisoned (Habeas Corpus) by the hospital.
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