Colleen Hauser

Mother Fails To Comply With Court Order for 13 Year Old Cancer Patient

By cmacivor on | From catherinemacivor.com

13 year Old Daniel Hauser

CBS News reports that today Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for the mother of a 13-year-old boy resisting chemotherapy after the pair missed a court hearing on his welfare.” The wife apparently fled with the boy.

Brown County District Judge John Rodenberg also ordered that Daniel Hauser be placed in protective custody so he can get proper medical treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The cancer is considered highly curable with proper treatment, but Daniel quit chemo after a single treatment and with his parents opted instead for “alternative medicines,” citing religious beliefs. That led authorities to seek custody. Rodenberg last week ruled that Daniel’s parents, Colleen and Anthony Hauser, were medically neglecting their son.

The family was due in court Tuesday to tell the judge results of a chest X-ray and arrangements for an oncologist. But Daniel’s father was the only one who appeared. He told Rodenberg he last saw Colleen Hauser on Monday evening.

“She said she was going to leave,” Hauser testified. “She said, `That’s all you need to know.’ And that’s all I know.”

He said his wife left her cell phone at home.

The family’s doctor, James Joyce, testified by telephone that Daniel’s tumor has grown and he needs immediate assessment by a pediatric cancer doctor.

Joyce said he examined Daniel on Monday, with an X-ray showing that his tumor had grown to the size it was when he was first diagnosed.

“He had basically gotten back all the trouble he had in January,” the doctor said.

Daniel’s cancer is curable so if the boy doesn’t get treatment, he will die. Based on this article, the mother is under the false impression that Daniel is not in any medical danger.

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