They are holding children hostage:
"Parents of ill UK boy fight extradition from Spain" by Danica Kirka | Associated Press September 02, 2014
LONDON — The parents say they want to give their 5-year-old-boy with a brain tumor the best chance to live with a new treatment they learned about on the Internet. But their British hospital says the boy has a 70 percent to 80 percent chance of survival with the treatment it offers, and it is the parents who are putting the child at risk.
Britain has become riveted by the case of little Ashya King, whose parents plucked him from a hospital in England and fled to Spain in a dispute over treatment, with British justice close on the family’s heels.
Sorry I'm not.
Brett and Naghemeh King signaled Monday that they would fight extradition, defying doctors and the legal system as a British court considers forcing the family to come home.
‘‘I’m not coming back to England if I cannot give him the treatment I want, which is proper treatment,’’ Brett King said as he cradled the child in a video posted before his arrest. ‘‘I just want positive results.’’
The Kings are seeking a new type of proton beam radiation therapy that typically costs at least $33,000. Southampton General Hospital says more conventional methods have a very high chance of succeeding.
It said that while proton beam therapy is effective for some tumors, in other cases ‘‘there isn’t evidence that this is a beneficial treatment.’’
The family fled to Spain hoping to sell a property to obtain enough cash for treatment in the Czech Republic or the United States. Police pursued them. Prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for cruelty to a person under the age of 16 years after the Southampton hospital realized their patient was gone.
Yeah, the British authorities really care about kids.
British authorities traveled to Spain to question the couple. Assistant Chief Constable Chris Shead, of Hampshire Constabulary, has said he would rather be criticized for being proactive than try to explain later ‘‘why a child has lost his life.’’
The hospital’s medical director, Dr. Michael Marsh, said the treatment was discussed with the family.
He put the chances of Ashya surviving under the hospital’s treatment at 70 percent to 80 percent after five years. He expressed sadness that communication with the family had broken down and that ‘‘they have lost confidence in us.’’
Ethicists say the case is unprecedented and raises questions of how much power authorities should have in interfering with the will of parents.
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"Spanish judge orders release of ill boy’s parents" by Jorge Sainz | Associated Press September 03, 2014
SOTO DEL REAL, Spain — Spanish officials have ordered the immediate release of a detained British couple who were wanted by police in the United Kingdom after they took their critically ill child for treatment abroad without doctors’ consent.
The National Court in Madrid said in a statement that a judge decided to free the couple Tuesday after British authorities dropped the case against them.
Brett and Naghemeh King were pursued by police after they took 5-year-old Ashya out of a hospital in southern England against doctors’ advice and traveled to Spain, where they planned to sell property to pay for proton beam radiation therapy in the Czech Republic or the United States.
They were arrested on a British warrant on suspicion of cruelty to a person under 16 years of age, and were being held at the Soto del Real prison, outside Madrid. Their son, who has a severe brain tumor, is in a hospital in Malaga.
The parents were detained Monday after a judge ruled they should be held while a Madrid court considered Britain’s extradition request, which was later revoked.
‘‘No further action will be taken against Mr. and Mrs. King and we are now in the process of communicating this decision to the Spanish authorities,’’ British prosecutors said in a statement earlier Tuesday, adding they were doing it so the family can be reunited as soon as possible.
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I wouldn't want to go back to Britain either:
"Report finds 1,400 children exploited in UK town" Associated Press August 27, 2014
LONDON — About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in a northern England town, a report concluded Tuesday in a damning account of ‘‘collective failures’’ by authorities to prevent victims as young as 11 from being beaten, raped, and trafficked over a 16-year period.
Report author Alexis Jay cited appalling acts of violence between 1997 and 2013 in Rotherham, a town of some 250,000. The independent report came after a series of convictions of sexual predators in the region and ground-breaking reports in the Times of London.
Reading descriptions of the abuse makes it hard to imagine that nothing was done for so long.
Not really, not once you understand the perverted sex rings of the powerful.
The report described rapes by multiple perpetrators, mainly from Britain’s Pakistani community, and how children were trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated.
Damn Muslims(?)!
‘‘There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes, and threatened they would be next if they told anyone,’’ Jay said. ‘‘Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.’’
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Related: Sticking It Where the Sun Doesn't Shine in Britain
Must have been where the Globe stuck it because not a word since.
