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Baby Charlotte can leave hospital, but loses family |
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The Rt. Hon. Ann Widdecombe MP (Daily Express, 26 Apr 06) chronicled the efforts of Charlotte’s parents, Darren and Debbie, to prevent hospital doctors letting her die. Doctors “told one court that Charlotte would not survive the winter of 2004-5. Wrong. Earlier this year, they were still insisting she was in a critical condition and would die within weeks. Wrong again.” Each time the parents appeared before the court, they had to wait in suspense for the judge’s ruling.
In April Charlotte was well enough to leave hospital, but her parents by then had split up. Ann Widdecombe commented: “If the Health authority had invested half as much energy into supporting the loving parents as it put into securing the child’s death, a seriously sick little child would now be in her own family home instead of facing being farmed out to foster carers.”
Charlotte has been in the same part of the same hospital as David Glass, whose mother Carol was also told that he was “going to die”. His aunts and uncle were imprisoned for rescuing him.
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