Child Victim of "Alternative Medicine"

JFDee

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As reported by Respectful Insolence several days ago:

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2...rm-a-preventable-death-from-an-ear-infection/

It's a wrap-up of a case in Wyalusing, PA, which has led to a police investigation and ultimately to an indictement of the child's parents in June.

The article refers to the report by a local news site from Wyalusing, the "Rocket-Courier":
An autopsy performed on March 26 at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton, NY, conducted by Dr. James Terzian, indicated that the 18-month-old toddler had died of “streptococcus pneumoniae meningitis”, which caused a cerebral abscess and terminal cerebral edema. The meningitis reportedly originated in a left ear infection, which had been left untreated by conventional antibiotic therapy.
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Even in the emergency room, the mother complained when the staff attempted reanimation.
Criminal investigators were told by a registered nurse on staff that the victim’s mother, Christine Delozier, and aunt, Rebecca Delozier, arrived at the hospital shortly after the victim. The nurse said that the victim’s parents made it clear they were against antibiotics and other chemicals associated with modern medicine.

While emergency room staff worked on the toddler, who was not breathing, the nurse said she overheard Christine Delozier making statements such as, “You’re putting holes in her” and, “You’re putting chemicals in her.”
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Could you provide a brief synopsis in your post.
The article tells of an eighteen-month old girl who developed an ear infection, was treated homoepathically by her anti-science parents, and subsequently developed a form of pneumonia that could have been easily prevented by or treated with anti-biotics. The girl slipped into cardiac arrest and died even as her parents were admonishing medical personnel for 'putting holes and chemicals in her'.
 
A similarly hertbreaking tragedy recently occurred with an aboriginal family in Canada:
Makayla Sault, [an] Objiwa [First Nation] girl who refused chemotherapy in favour of indigenous medicine, died on Monday... [age] 11 years old....

Makayla was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last January. She refused chemotherapy at McMaster Children's Hospital after 12 weeks, opting for indigenous medicine and other alternative therapies, despite the high likelihood she would have been cured through modern treatment....

She was the first of two Ontario First Nations girls to reject chemotherapy to treat her leukemia.... The parents of the second girl... won a precedent-setting court case when Ontario Court Justice Gethin Edward ruled that aboriginal parents have a... right to choose traditional forms of treatment for children.
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http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news...h-leukemia-who-refused-chemotherapy-dies.html

Fortunately, the second girl has since resumed chemotherapy.
 
A similarly hertbreaking tragedy recently occurred with an aboriginal family in Canada:
Makayla Sault, [an] Objiwa [First Nation] girl who refused chemotherapy in favour of indigenous medicine, died on Monday... [age] 11 years old....

Makayla was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia last January. She refused chemotherapy at McMaster Children's Hospital after 12 weeks, opting for indigenous medicine and other alternative therapies, despite the high likelihood she would have been cured through modern treatment....

She was the first of two Ontario First Nations girls to reject chemotherapy to treat her leukemia.... The parents of the second girl... won a precedent-setting court case when Ontario Court Justice Gethin Edward ruled that aboriginal parents have a... right to choose traditional forms of treatment for children.
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http://m.thestar.com/#/article/news...h-leukemia-who-refused-chemotherapy-dies.html

Fortunately, the second girl has since resumed chemotherapy.
Thank you.
 
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