“MISSING ENDANGERED CHILD!” read an urgent alert from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office that blasted across the news. “We’re not trying to refuse any kind of treatment,” Bland-Ball told reporters Wednesday, according to WFLA. In New York, child protection authorities took custody of a 12-year-old boy fighting leukemia last September after his mother refused additional chemotherapy treatment. She lost custody, she said, calling it a “medical kidnapping.”“They don’t want me to be able to exercise my freedoms to choose medical treatment for my child,” Gunderson told the news station. “Medical kidnapping is real!” one wrote on Facebook in response to the police’s urgent “MISSING ENDANGERED CHILD!” alert.

Source: Washington Post May 02, 2019 11:20 UTC