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		<title>Parents charged in death of their young son</title>
		<description>Discuss Parents charged in death of their young son</description>
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			<title>snowseeker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[My issue is that even if the parents are found not guilty so much damage will have been done to their remaining son, their family, and their reputation in the community. I agree, perhaps there are aspects I am unaware of, but it seems to me that within our communities are seething cases of child neglect that garner no attention from the police or media. I wonder if this is a targetted case given statements from the brother about alternative medicine. I have a co-worker who is Dutch. She lost her son to a preventable disease and there was no investigation as to why she had not immunized her son. It was just a given that immunizations were against her belief system. If this is a situation of the family relying on alternative medicine it will be intersting to see if their belief system is taken into account. You are right Jmho, anyway you look at it, it is a very sad case indeed.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>snowseeker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:51:29 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>jmho says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[a cold doesnt turn to bacterial meningitis. A cold is caused by a virus. There were likely two infections here. Other than that as I said in another post related to this topic, I will wait for the court's decision before passing judgment one way or the other. Very sad case indeed.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jmho</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:41:38 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>snowseeker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I can really empathize with the parents if their son was exhibiting cold/flu-like symptoms for a few weeks. Emergency and walk-in doctors often make you feel stupid for bringing a child in who just has a "cold". In fact, the triage nurse made me wait in the waiting room for a long time and made me feel like my son wasn't sick enough to be in there... that was just a few hours before he was transported by ambulance to Calgary. My point is thatit can be difficult to know how sick your child is. I know with meningitis that it doesn' t just linger for a few weeks, it comes on within hours. This little boy likely had a cold that would have resolved without medical intervention. It is unfortunate that it turned to meningitis. I feel so sorry for the parents and I think criminal charges will only cause more suffering to their remainging son. It doesn't seem to have any benefit and I am sure there are much worse cases of parent neglect being overlooked in our community.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>snowseeker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 13:15:33 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>wts says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I have to agree with Acidtest. While meningitis can come on quickly a prior lung infection which, according to the police, lasted AT LEAST two weeks before the child's death would, in my opinion, be sufficient cause for most parents to seek medical attention for their toddler. As already been stated I can't imagine these charges would be laid in such a tragic chain of events if the police did not have sufficient evidence to merit a trial.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>wts</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 08:22:15 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>BobbiJo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I still think we are being overly judgmental here Acidtest. Google it. You will find that the onset of meningitis is generally within hours. We are parents; with my first child I ran to the doctor much quicker than I did with my second. Criminal negligence is a serious charge. I hope the RCMP have solid evidence for laying this charge because their reputation is not very commendable or dependable. That's even if we don't believe half of what we read about them!]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BobbiJo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:27:14 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Acidtest says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The death of a child like this must be one of the most tragic events a person can experience. I notice that you did not mention the police charging you with a criminal act. Perhaps the key difference is the care you took to seek medical help for your sick child. The young child in question had apparently been ill for two weeks, ultimately so severely that the boy could not breathe. Perhaps this boy was not just fine and then fatally ill over a couple of hours. I doubt that the RCMP would even consider a criminal charge in that case.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Acidtest</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 07:37:23 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>snowseeker says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I have personalized this story from my own experience, but I really empathize with the parents. My son had bacterial meningitis and we just about lost him. He was looking fine and healthy, playful and just a little under-the-weather. He had a fever, but nothing that we were overly concerned about it. I took him to emergency just because his fever hit 39 degrees, triage held us in the waiting room for awhile, by the time we went back to see a doctor our son was ambulanced to Alberta Chilren's Hospital. My point is that within a two hour period he went from fine to critical condition. My son suffered signficant brain damage and had I lived in a rural community with an ambulance so far out of reach maybe I would have lost my son too. I am sure the parents already torture themselves with guilt, I don't see how criminal charges will benefit anyone? Such a sad story and maybe I don't have all the facts, but this story still makes me sad.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>snowseeker</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:10:48 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>BobbiJo says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It's such a fine line Acidtest. I don't think it's that black and white. How many parents don't treat their children themselves and it usually goes well. If it can be proven that these parents knew something was very wrong and didn't take him to the doctor, then they are negligent. I suspect they treated him for fever, and it wasn't until he started having breathing problems that they called the ambulance. A nephew of mine, his first child had meningitis and the only reason he survived is because the parents were ignorant of his real sickness. When his head fell forward he would scream so they took him to the doctor. Just in time the doctor said and fortunately the medication worked. When I said there are good results with the alternative medicine, it's true; however, their doctors have worked alongside and the use both prescription medication and alternative medication. These people now have a life whereas before it was just an existence.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>BobbiJo</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:25:15 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>LMF2009 says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I agree that if police present what they have found to the Crown then the courts need to hear the evidence and make the decision. I am sure this wasn't made lightly.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>LMF2009</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:44:33 --600</pubDate>
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			<title>Acidtest says:</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Let's do some thinking about this story. The RCMP conduct an 11 month investigation, the child died last year, in March. They likely discovered that there was reasonable grounds to make a criminal charge of failing to provide the basics to this baby - and you think this story shows that the parent "where" guilty of nothing and that it is wrong to act on the evidence the police collected? What might be wrong with this perspective?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Acidtest</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:28:41 --600</pubDate>
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