The Archie Battersbee’s familythe British boy who is brain dead, said he felt “shattered” after exhausting all legal avenues to maintain the mechanisms child assisted breathingwho is admitted to a London hospital, according to the Christian Concern group.
The 12-year-old boy, whose case has received great media attention, was found by his mother, Hollie Dance, unconscious on April 7 at his home in Southend, in the county of Essex (southeast England), with a rope tied around his head and believes that he may have suffered an accident while participating in some viral challenge through social networks.
In recent months, the family has sought legal action to stop the hospital Royal London, where the minor remains admitted, removeas the health unit wants, the assisted breathing considering that no chance of recovery.
After several appeals in the British courts and the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights, which gave reason to the hospital, the family tried unsuccessfully in the last days allow Archie was taken from the hospital to a hospice so that he could die in this place, away from the noise of Royal London.
The last effort in this direction was exhausted last Friday night after the European Court of Human Rights indicate that the case of transfer to a hospice was “outside” your purview.
The hospital argued that putting Archie in hospice was a risk because a slight movement of the body could further aggravate the condition of the child.
A spokesman for the group Christian Concern, which supports Archie’s family, acknowledged that “all legal routes have been exhausted” and that the relatives are “shattered”but spend “valuable moments” with the child.
Hospital has not confirmed when the devices will be disconnected to Archie, but it is expected to be this Saturday.
During the court proceedings, British judges reiterated that continuing to offer life support to the child was “against his best interests”.
Judge Lucy Theis, of the family division of the High Court of London, highlighted, in denying the transfer to the hospice, the “unconditional love and dedication” of the family and stressed that she hoped that the child would have the opportunity to die in peace “with his family”.