Posted on 07/25/2006 5:33:56 AM PDT by ohhhh
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=51219
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER Threat: Cancer teen to be taken by force 16-year-old Virginian: 'I'm not going to receive chemotherapy no matter what'
Posted: July 25, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
The father of a Virginia teen seeking an alternative treatment for his cancer says a social worker has threatened to use force to take the boy away from the family for court-ordered chemotherapy.
Jay Cherrix of Chincoteague, Va., is concerned there could be an Elian Gonzalez-style showdown over his 16-year-old son, Abraham, who has already undergone chemotherapy for his Hodgkin's disease to no avail.
Appearing on Sean Hannity's national radio program yesterday, Jay Cherrix said, "When the social-service worker came and interviewed me, I told him how Abraham felt and about how we had met a person who had been cured by this [alternative treatment] and how we were supporting Abraham's decision. I said, 'What will you do with my little boy? Will you take him somewhere and strap him down and put duct tape on his mouth and pump full of this stuff if he doesn't want it?'
"He said, 'No, I will come to your house with a uniformed officer, and I will take your son by force if he resists. And I will take him to somebody who will do that.'
"And I said, 'I don't think I can let you do that.'"
He added there have also been other threats to take Abraham away from the family.
"They told Abraham that if he did not go and have an X-ray, they would put him in a juvenile detention center with drug dealers. They told him that if he did not do that they would put him in a foster home. ... We never thought that people could actually say that to a young fellow like that. We've been surprised by lots of stuff but we have a strong faith and we believe that we'll prevail. We think there will be a judge that will use common sense and compassion and grant a stay on that [mandated chemotherapy] order."
"I can't believe we're gonna live in a society where the government now, through a court order, is gonna send some bureaucrat into your house, take you out in handcuffs, slap you on a gurney and stick some medicine in you because they deem that you've made the wrong decision in life. I can't believe we're actually on the verge of that happening here," said an outraged Hannity. "It's almost like Elian Gonzalez for crying out loud."
In 2000, 6-year-old Elian Gonzalez, a Cuban child who made it to Florida by sea, was forcibly taken by armed federal agents in a late-night forced entry into a Miami home to return him to his father in Cuba.
"We have to stop this in the United States," Jay Cherrix said. "This is an intrusion. This is the way you destroy families and it's not fair and it's not America."
On Friday, Judge Jesse Demps of Accomack County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court ordered Abraham's parents to bring him to Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk by 1 p.m. today and give consent to whatever treatment the hospital recommends.
Judge Demps also found Abraham's parents neglectful, and required them to share custody of the teen with the Accomack County Department of Social Services.
"I'm not going to receive chemotherapy no matter what," Abraham said on "Hannity & Colmes" last night. "This is my body, the body that God gave to me, and in the Bible it says for me to take care of this body. It's my temple. ... If you are not able to do with your body what you want to, then you have no rights whatsoever."
When asked to describe his previous chemotherapy treatment, the teen said, "It was worse than dying itself. It was more like torture."
Abraham is looking to stick to a diet of all-natural foods and nuts and take the Hoxsey Treatment from Tijuana, Mexico.
"The diet is an anti-cancer diet which further enhances the immune system; so the three factors, the supplement, the diet and the herbs allow your body to kill off its own cancer," Dr. Allen Chips, who researched the treatment told WVEC-TV in Norfolk.
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And who was the idiot judge that made this decision?
While it might be unwise of this kid to choose not to undergo chemotherapy, the state has no business telling him he has to. This is utter nonsense.
The judge is sick...typical of the current breed. They have become out of control. The justice department should have come to this kid's aid.
Off the subject, 'Cancer Teen' would be a great name for a band.
Judge Jesse Demps of Accomack County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court is a state judge, not a federal judge.
"They told Abraham that if he did not go and have an X-ray, they would put him in a juvenile detention center with drug dealers."
Those social workers were really full of compassion, weren't they?
The dad should just take the kid to Mexico now.
This is crazy! The courts want to kill the handicap people like Terri Schiavo but want to force treatment on someone who does not choose conventional medicine. I'm getting pretty scared folks.
They would have to crawl over my bullet-riddled body to get to my teenage daughter!
If I was in that kids place there would be fewer social workers in this world as soon as they decided to enforce the judge's ruling.
Yes, & I read somewhere that the city of Chicago is trying to pass a law that keeps fast food places from using trans fats. It's getting very scary. I feel like a frog sitting in a pot of water......it's starting to get hot!
>>While it might be unwise of this kid to choose not to undergo chemotherapy, the state has no business telling him he has to. This is utter nonsense.<<
He went through it once....From the article.
"When asked to describe his previous chemotherapy treatment, the teen said, "It was worse than dying itself. It was more like torture."
My Dad, God rest his soul, went through the same thing. He was told that he was terminal and the Quack Doctor wanted him to keep coming in for Chemo. It plays hell on your body. My dad said no.
The doctor went to the family and told us that we could keep him alive for six more months if we called and had him moved to a hospital every time he went into distress. They would give him more Chemo when he came in.
Daddy wanted to die with dignity at home.
His heart went out two weeks later, with all of us around.
Let this kid have his quality of life.
It's pretty darn sad when it comes to that in this country, eh?
But its for "THE CHILDREN".
ooops /s
'I don't think I can let you do that.'
Ah....a legally veiled threat!
Somebody needs to let these damn social worker know that they don't run the world.
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