NATIONAL BRIEFING / MINNESOTA
Authorities were seeking to arrest the mother of a 13-year-old boy with cancer after the pair fled and missed a court hearing on his welfare. The boy has refused chemotherapy.
A judge in New Ulm issued an arrest warrant and ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in a foster home and be examined by a pediatric oncologist so he can get treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
The cancer is considered highly curable with chemotherapy and radiation, but Daniel quit chemotherapy, and his parents opted instead for “alternative medicines,” citing religious beliefs. That led authorities to seek custody.
Brown County District Judge John R. Rodenberg ruled last week that Daniel’s parents, Colleen and Anthony Hauser, were medically neglecting their son.
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