Judge may keep parents away from Katie Wernecke
Judge may bar contact between parents and daughter
Judge may keep parents from Katie
Pressure too much for a 13-year-old to bear, Lewis says
By kathryn garcia Caller-Times
September 20, 2005
Juvenile Judge Carl Lewis, at an emergency hearing on Monday, threatened to bar the parents of teenage cancer victim Katie Wernecke from all contact with her.
Lewis called the hearing after visiting the 13-year-old's hospital bedside Friday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The hearing was recessed after Lewis suddenly became ill and was not rescheduled as of late Monday. "After having met with her, I believe that it is in the child's best interest to issue orders to limit and perhaps prohibit access to her parents," Lewis said. "I am convinced now that they are actively preventing the treatment from occurring through their contact with their daughter, and it's more pressure than a 13-year-old can bear."
Katie has been refusing the prescribed treatment of high-dose chemotherapy followed by radiation to treat her Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes, said her lawyer Linda Schauer, who added she doesn't think Katie will agree to treatment even if she is cut off from contact with her parents.
Katie's caseworker Stella Klein has said Katie has dodged treatment by attempting to pull catheters from her body, refusing to bathe and not following doctor's orders.
During his visit to Houston, Lewis said he encouraged Katie to receive the treatment. Lewis did not elaborate on Katie's response but said she wanted a guarantee that the treatment would be successful. Lewis said he told her that "when it comes to human life there is no guarantee..."
How will keeping this young woman who desperately wants to go home away from her parents convince her to get this treatment? If anything, it'll make her more defiant and perhaps suicidal. Only people who work for the government would think that being cruel to someone is the way to get them to cooperate! I call for the dismissal of Judge Lewis from the bench! He's incompetent and malicious!
Judge may keep parents from Katie
Pressure too much for a 13-year-old to bear, Lewis says
By kathryn garcia Caller-Times
September 20, 2005
Juvenile Judge Carl Lewis, at an emergency hearing on Monday, threatened to bar the parents of teenage cancer victim Katie Wernecke from all contact with her.
Lewis called the hearing after visiting the 13-year-old's hospital bedside Friday at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The hearing was recessed after Lewis suddenly became ill and was not rescheduled as of late Monday. "After having met with her, I believe that it is in the child's best interest to issue orders to limit and perhaps prohibit access to her parents," Lewis said. "I am convinced now that they are actively preventing the treatment from occurring through their contact with their daughter, and it's more pressure than a 13-year-old can bear."
Katie has been refusing the prescribed treatment of high-dose chemotherapy followed by radiation to treat her Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymph nodes, said her lawyer Linda Schauer, who added she doesn't think Katie will agree to treatment even if she is cut off from contact with her parents.
Katie's caseworker Stella Klein has said Katie has dodged treatment by attempting to pull catheters from her body, refusing to bathe and not following doctor's orders.
During his visit to Houston, Lewis said he encouraged Katie to receive the treatment. Lewis did not elaborate on Katie's response but said she wanted a guarantee that the treatment would be successful. Lewis said he told her that "when it comes to human life there is no guarantee..."
How will keeping this young woman who desperately wants to go home away from her parents convince her to get this treatment? If anything, it'll make her more defiant and perhaps suicidal. Only people who work for the government would think that being cruel to someone is the way to get them to cooperate! I call for the dismissal of Judge Lewis from the bench! He's incompetent and malicious!
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