The post lists alternative treatments the family is using: rosemary, vitamin B complex, herbal extract, colloidal silver and mushroom tea, among others. To advocates like Olszewski, taking a child into custody like this amounts to "medical kidnapping" and a gross violation of parents' constitutional rights. "It's a pretty high bar for the state to be able to step in and say, 'If you don't do this, the child will die and this is the only way to save the child.'" "When it comes to medical decision-making, it's much more tricky because parents may have the same information but are making different value judgements," said Katherine Drabiak, an assistant professor at the University of South Florida who specializes in health law and medical ethics. The cases often are more complicated than those involving other types of abuse or neglect.
The parents are under investigation on suspicion of child neglect.Įxperts say the case highlights the complex tug-of-war that can arise between parents and a child protective system that can declare neglect for avoiding certain medical treatments. Within hours, police found McAdams, 28, and Bland-Ball, 22, at a Kentucky motel, and took Noah to a hospital.
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Authorities issued an endangered child alert Monday, and the family's photos appeared on TV screens and websites. But when the couple refused additional chemo treatment for Noah, and failed to show up to a treatment appointment last week, child protective investigators in Hillsborough County got a court order to take Noah into custody.
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