Mother who refused to bring son's vaccinations up to date sentenced to 7 days in jail

Take her child away.

 

She's against vaccination or against vaccination on the recommended schedule? If she want to space it out, that's not an issue.

Ordering her kid (how old?) to receive all missing vaccination in a week? Have that been done on a large scale and tested? No. I wouldn't follow the order either. Let her do it over some more reasonable period of time.

 

"God forbid if he were to be injured by a vaccine," she continued. "I would have to take care of him."

Ah yes, god forbid the child suffers from injury due to vaccination, as opposed to something arbitrary like Polio. Ohhh the horror.

 

I don't get the "anti-vax" crowd, I get the idea that it should be your own choice, but the problem with that line of logic is that choosing not to vaccinate can create a public health risk. Due to that, I don't think you really get to make that decision.

 

I doubt it is dangerous at all. But there are people who still think vaccinations cause issues.

I'm speculating without proof that she did not want her son vaccinated at all, which is why he has so many outstanding in the first place, and is mostly using this timing issue as a less tenuous legal argument. Even if she's a bit batty about the whole thing though, I don't see why the court couldn't have settled on a vacc schedule to accommodate her battiness. Do one shot now, another in 3 months, whatever. Mass refusals to vaccinate are a public health hazard, but one person behind on their vaccinations isn't a huge threat that you must close off within the week. I guess I don't really feel bad for anyone here, but it's ridiculous and a shame that it got so combative that people are going to jail over it.

 

They sort of did ask her to do it over a reasonable time - this was a dispute between the parents. She was asked to give the kid the vaccines as of November of last year... and chose not to do any of them. Now the dad asked the court to force it all to be done in this week to get him caught up and the court ruled in his favor. As JV said, the court could have pushed something in between, but it seems one parent wanted it all done immediately.

 

Seems like she's had close to 1 year.

Court documents obtained by ABC News state that Bredow was first asked to have the immunizations provided to her son in November 2016.

 

If the mother had simply had her child receive the vaccinations when appropriate, this "all at once" issue wouldn't have been an issue.

 

I doubt it also. But I know enough to know that leveraging large scale field "testing" is great while taking a one-off (pretty sure it has been done before, but statistically, it's one-off) is likely fine, but I wouldn't take the chance for my child.

Correct.

One un-vaccinated child is not a risk to a community or to the child that require a MUST BE DONE NOW order. Should be done, but not at such a compressed schedule.

Mass refusal is a concern. For those that can't be vaccinated due to age, for medical reasons and we all need that herd immunity. This is one area where individual liberty should not be prioritized over community health. Exception is fine as long as it doesn't impact the herd immunity.

In this case, I wonder why the parent that want the vaccination just not go get his child vaccinated? Does he not have some type of custody?


And... Poor child.

 

Thanks @FranchiseBlade I appreciate you posting this. I just wanted to say that in the medical community it's people like this that set us all back. All these diseases they never grew up with are some sort of fantasy. If you don't vaccinate your children, you are putting them in harm's way and should be dealt severe penalties.

 

It seems the vaccinations were a point of contention in the parents' court battle, and he doesn't have primary custody. So he may not have had the rights to do it himself? Not really sure how that stuff all works. He has custody for the next week while she's in jail, so maybe he can get it all done now.

 

I personally know of one anti-vaxxer -- she is the mother of an autistic son that's been fed the gospel of Andrew Wakefield, who unfortunately moved to Austin and has made Texas a kind of ground zero for the movement. I think it's easy for otherwise sensible parents to get caught up in the fear when it comes to the health of their children, but it clearly puts others at risk and I'm glad this woman went to jail.

 

Divorce brings out the absolute worst in people.

 

It is. Well not common but it can cause reactions some of them severe esp vaccines with alive virus.
I know very well coz I got one myself. Uveitis from the measles vaccine (ΜΜR). Back then it was reccomended to get it when the child was at 10-12.
Unfortunately it was such a rare reaction that it was undiagnosed and I had to suffer about 1-2 months of mild photophobia, until it went away on its own.

However that's not reason not to vaccine your child and I'm all for this crazy irresponsible mother to go to jail and take her children away from her.

In Italy they passed a law to ban unvaccinated kids from going to school until they do. Great measure to protect the public safety.
Right now Germany ,Italy and the rest of Europe is suffering through a measles epidemic because of the anti vaccination "movement".
Here in just two months we had 300 measles cases whereas the previous year it was almost non existant.
Because of gypsies who leave their kids unvaccinated.

 

Don't yall think that's a little extreme?

 

Not vaccinating children is about as irresponsible as you can get. Not only do you risk your child's life but also any children around them.

 

Never got the whole anti vaccination wave. Yes there are some risks to be sure, but that’s why we have risk/reward scales. I feel that most people in the anti vax crowd mean well and that they lack a basic level of understanding of how vaccines work.

 

Natural Selection at work.