On 2014-09-02 17:41:22 +0000, David Hill said:

On 02/09/2014 18:26, Chris Hogg wrote:
On Tue, 2 Sep 2014 17:21:41 +0100, Sacha
wrote:

On 2014-09-02 15:32:44 +0000, Phil Cook said:

On 02/09/2014 16:25, Bob Hobden wrote:

My problem is that this could all have been averted if they, the parents,
had talked it over with the hospital and told them their intentions instead
of just taking the child away without warning leaving the hospital with no
choice but to inform the Police.

+1

They were told - apparently - that if they failed to do as Southampton
Hospital told them to do, the child would be made a ward of court. They
appear to have been backed into a corner and their sole concern is
trying to save their son's life. Everyone else involved has jumped in
with hobnailed boots on. Arrestiing them and keeping them and all their
family away from their child is beyond cruel and imo, is wicked.

+1. Fortunately, the UK authorities do now seem to be seeing sense,
and backing off from their mindless, unfeeling and bureaucratic
stance. They may have had the little boy's best interests at heart, as
they saw it, but they've made the most appalling mess of the whole
thing.


And if he had died after his parents removed him from the hospital the
media would have been yelling "Why weren't they stopped?"
You would think that if they considered the hospital good enough to
carry out the operation, they would have stayed with them for after
care. or at least get a second opinion.

I doubt they had a choice as to where the op took place if it was on
the NHS and a specialist op, at that. I realise the hospital felt it
had to alert the authorities that the child had been removed from their
care but the CPS and police response was waaaaay over the top.
--
Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon