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Charlie Gard Case 4

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LovelyBath77 · 11/07/2017 08:15

A new thread to follow on from the others about this case

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Ta1kinPeace · 11/07/2017 21:44

rabbitnot
No, it's not a registered charity so I have no idea why the admin is saying that the charity commission will audit it
And if it was, they would know that the Charity Commission do not "audit" anything.
That is what Auditors are for Grin

Butterymuffin · 11/07/2017 21:44

I don't think the judge will speak about the merchandise, because it's not part of the issue about this new evidence of effective treatment for Charlie. He knows his job and will stick to doing it.

sodablackcurrant · 11/07/2017 21:46

Follow the money,

There's your answer.

LovelyBath77 · 11/07/2017 21:46

Wonder if the money really is destined for a Mito charity after all

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TinselTwins · 11/07/2017 21:46

TheWeeWitch whilst no doubt the featureworld woman may be self promoting, even with a pinch of salt that article tells a sad story about C&C being manipulated

Lightlovelife · 11/07/2017 21:47

The pastor has gone very quiet on Facebook.

11122aa · 11/07/2017 21:47

It's Connie's dad who it been said was singing that lyric.

LetsGoFlyAKiteee · 11/07/2017 21:47

Urghhhhh someone on there wants to link the parents to the little girls story..this again false hope! She is suspected anyway and not the same strain but stories like this are bound to get them thinking and again what if..it can happen sort of thing.

MommaGee · 11/07/2017 21:48

today I read that the morphine was given to cause brain damage and kill him holy cow, I normally ask for a bit of ketamine in my son's morphine just to give it extra kick!!

BoreOfWhabylon · 11/07/2017 21:49

According to the linked Guardian article, the original publicist has been ditched in favour of this 'pastor'. I've copied and pasted the following:

Re Featureworld usurped by pastor
From www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jul/10/patrick-mahoney-us-pastor-campaigning-for-charlie-gard-has-history-of-publicity-stunts?CMP=fb_gu

Alison Smith-Squire from Feature World was acting as the spokeswoman for Charlie’s parents until she was usurped by Mahoney last week. She is now concerned that Mahoney is using Charlie’s plight as a political and religious crusade.

She said: “Connie and Chris have been the sweetest and most genuine people I’ve worked with. I feel they are in a very vulnerable situation and having got all this publicity, Mahoney appears to be seizing on their case to make the most of it.”

Charlie Gard: key questions answered
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She added: “I helped to raise the profile of their case in a very sensitive way and never asked for any money from them. Initially I advised Connie and Chris not to approach the media but to try to resolve the case behind closed doors. I wanted Gosh and the family to mediate and come to some arrangement.

“Only when it came to court did we cautiously approach the media. The story then became so big that it reached the attention okf the pope and Donald Trump. After Trump tweeted things started to change. I was no longer in regular contact with Connie.

“From the day Trump tweeted he [Mahoney] had been there, wheeling his way in with his supporters. I tried to tell Connie that this could be negative for her, but she didn’t come back. And they seemed to be being told to take a much more confrontational approach with Gosh. It was wrong to march to the hospital. All the doctors there have got a very difficult job, and I felt it would be disruptive.

“I was looking after them in an ethical way and I was keen to pursue a non-confrontational approach with Gosh in the interests of everybody involved.”

LogicalPsycho · 11/07/2017 21:49

Thank you BoreOfWhabylon and WeeWitch I didn't know they'd sacked their publicist.
I'll read the link if you can find it! Thanks Smile

RJnomore1 · 11/07/2017 21:52

Those lyrics - they want him dead in the morning? and that's his grandparent yes?

Fwiw and I know it was a while ago we talked about the photos and the parents "posing" but to me they always looked like parents who were really proud of their little baby and wanted to show him off rather than anything else, whichvi understand because my friend has a poorly baby with visible disabilities but he's her son and he's beautiful to her (and he is beautiful but some people just see him as different)

Alittlepotofrosie · 11/07/2017 21:53

I thought the publicist came across well and i believe her to be honest. It was after she started losing control and the parents started doing more interviews that things started to escalate.

muckypup73 · 11/07/2017 21:54

MyPuppyIsADick, what did I say lastnight??? I said they will end up releasing a song...............................

TheWeeWitch · 11/07/2017 21:56

I agree, it's very sad Tinsel. They seem so desperate. It's the same with the lawyers, they seem to discard people and move on to whoever is telling them what they want to hear.

NorthernLurker · 11/07/2017 21:56

It absolutely sounds like the parents have been allowed to totally disassociate themselves from the reality of the situation by all the farrago around the 'fight'. I really don't know what's going to happen to them when this poor baby is allowed to die.

RJnomore1 · 11/07/2017 21:58

Oh no it was his dad not his grandad? I can't keep up with the thread sorry

LovelyBath77 · 11/07/2017 22:01

So this is the new info they are sending tomorrow to the court? Is it new though?

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Rabbitnothare · 11/07/2017 22:03

One of the scientists said that he sent Connie the info in May but felt they had to write directly to the hospital again later.
Same info apparently.

LovelyBath77 · 11/07/2017 22:04

Ok. So then there is no chance of things changing.

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goodbyestranger · 11/07/2017 22:04

TinselTwins I think the point is that parents find great comfort supporting one another, even fleetingly, on these units so no, it's not ok, or at least it's an unusual reaction, for Charlie's parents to disregard the impact on other parents to this extraordinary degree.

Puzzled yes, the judge can certainly say that they're out of time. If they don't produce the evidence of the quality required by tomorrow then exactly that: out of time. No excuse such as someone's on holiday would cut any ice, not with communication as easy across the globe as it is today.

TheWeeWitch · 11/07/2017 22:05

@LovelyBath77 that's the letter signed by the doctors (now revealed to be scientists rather than medical specialists) that the Gards gave the hospital that prompted GOSH to call this week's hearings. It's new since the last court proceedings, but it's been all over the press since they got it.

LovelyBath77 · 11/07/2017 22:05

It said on the website there is a shared coffee room for parents on that ITU.

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totallyliterally · 11/07/2017 22:06

That letter was apparently leaked as one of the signed scientists said it was sent to the hospital and I assume is the letter referred to by GOSH in their statement regarding the court case and need for it.

But I think the judge wants more than that.

LogicalPsycho · 11/07/2017 22:06

I know it was a while ago we talked about the photos and the parents "posing" but to me they always looked like parents who were really proud of their little baby

I don't know. Having your hired publicist take a photo of you both standing above church scripture saying "Suffer Little Children", seems rather contrived.