NATION : Judge Rejects Plea by Father of 12-Year-Old Leukemia Victim
A Cook County circuit judge today denied a request to force 3 1/2-year-old twins to undergo blood tests to determine if they are suitable bone-marrow donors for their dying half brother.
Judge Monica Reynolds said the court had no authority to force James and Allison Curran of Elk Grove Village to undergo the tests.
The ruling came in a case filed by Tamas Bosze, the father of Jean-Pierre Bosze, 12, of Hoffman Estates, who is dying of leukemia. Tamas Bosze, the father of the dying boy and the twins, filed the suit in hopes of determining if the twins are biologically compatible donors.
But the twins’ mother, Tamas Bosze’s former girlfriend, Nancy Curran, objected, saying she feared for the health and safety of her children.
The suit said blood tests from a paternity suit Curran earlier brought against Bosze indicate the twins are a potential match for the sick boy. All other relatives have been tested and the twins are a last resort, the suit said.
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