For Ashya - change.org petition - please sign

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I hope this won't offend anyone but please can as many of you lovely mumsnetters sign this petition to help this little boy who must be so scared being kept away from his family in a foreign country.

I'm a regular!

Signed,
I agree with this petition as parents don't have a say in anything when a child has insists with hospital because as soon as the hospital says anything against parent because the doctors and the parents aren't in a agreement, we are then frightened with social services and other government services. Who is really bringing up are children us or this over run government who keeps missing out on the children who are tortured, left uneducated, beaten or killed to death. These people who manage to get away it why but they don't take their kids to hospitals or other appointments regularly so their faces aren't missed!! This is crazy, we bring our children on to this planet but we can't bring our children up or care for them without this dictating country! That's why I signed because in a statement from the police when they first found the parents of ashya they stated how they aren't unarrest in British law it's only because on Spanish law they are being put though this and it's wrong!

Why not trust the many professionals involved to make the best decisions for this child

Because sometimes professionals (on an individual or at organisation level) get it really wrong or are bad people.

So if something looks/sounds really wrong, its worth considering that it may be. Rotherham, Rolf Harris, Baby P just a few examples off the top of my head about massive failings in the system.

We have no idea of the full story here - it is misguided and naive to start petitioning without the facts

This is a tragic and complex case but the interference of well meaning people who don't know any of the detail is unlikely to be helpful

To everyone who is saying..."there is more to this, we don't know the facts".... ...really? Is there more?? I'm torn between thinking "actually, no this is a major fuck up"!

You can be sure you'll never get the full story from the police ir hospital

Just ask yourself if it's ok for these parents to be imprisoned and denied access to a child they clearly love and would not harm.

It's an abuse of State power

Agree we have no idea of the full story. But it certainly stinks. I actually feel some interference from higher up might be useful. Sounds like the hospital/nhs has been heavy handed. I hope they're ready and able to account for their decisions.

If it become clear that the child was never in any real danger I will sign.

If it becomes clear that the parents put him in unnecessary danger I will be glad I didn't sign.

From what I've read they could have sold their house in Spain and THEN taken him abroad for the procedure in a proper, medically supervised way. So I'm not signing (yet).

Patient confidentiality prevents the public having the full facts. Cameron won't do a thing with this petition

Signed.
I know, to my cost, that not everyone in the medical profession is a god. Sometimes you have to question doctors and look elsewhere for different treatment.
The boy is dying anyway. Don't these parents have rights? Or is he owned by the hospital?
And as a former journalist, please, please don't believe everything you read in the papers...

Enough signatures and Cameron will nudge someone to go and check what's gone on. He doesn't want any more embarrassment from the police.

Signed. My heart is breaking for this family. The Brain Tumour Charity are also sharing this link.

Signed. Really feel that the comments re 'bandwagons' are quite distasteful.

No thank you. I can't agree that taking a seriously ill child on a ferry to France was in his best interest.

OP-just had a look, over 79,000 signatures now.

I signed.

Because no matter what keeping a seriously ill child from his parents in a foreign country is wrong. I know enough about the NHS to believe that what the parents are saying is the truth.
Regardless of anything else either the hospital or the police have deliberately misrepresented the facts from the outset. It was a lie to say that he could not be fed without the pump. It was a lie to say the patents could not recharge the batteries on the pump. I suspect the hospital or at least the consultant had an inkling that they would seek second opinions abroad (and rightly so)
Nobody has the right to judge these parents until they have been sat in their position. His poor mother hadn't left his bedside for a month. Maybe it wasn't the decision people thinking rashly would have made but they were being put through hell.

Sorry cant sign. I just don't (same as everyone else not involved) know the facts if it came out that the parents did the right thing then I would back them all the way. It must be terrible to have such a poorly child. But without cold hard facts then there is nothing to support.

Fjalladis
'Nobody has the right to judge these parents' - totally correct. But you have to see this without bias. You also cannot judge the consultants when you also know nothing about the case.
This is to everyone, not just fjalladis,
Wait until all the true facts come out and pants will be hoisted, probably with some degree of smugness, sadly, whichever side is 'right'. While a poorly little boy lies in hospital.
Instead of feeling good by jumping on a bandwagon with no facts, wait and see where your indignation would be best placed.