Petition Demands Restoration of Child to Vegan Parents Wrongfully Charged

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Petition Demands Restoration of Child to Vegan Parents Wrongfully Charged

Petitioners say carbon monoxide poisoning is the obvious cause of the symptoms

that were misdiagnosed as 'malnutrition' via vegan diet, leading to DCFS taking

the Thaxton's child from them. They demand that the state return child and

apologize or be charged with aggravated kidnapping.

 

Bountiful, UT (PRWEB) December 17 2003 -- An online petition has been created to

allow concerned citizens to voice their support for the parents of Matthew

Thaxton, and to demand that the State of Utah immediately release him into the

care of his parents.

 

The infant was taken from his parents by the Division of Children and Family

Services (DCFS) on June 9, 2003 on charges purporting malnourishment through

their vegan diet. The state also had charged the parents with " substantive

neglect " in the death of their son Dan Jr. the year prior.

 

The petition states that " The true and clear cause of Daniel's death as well as

of Matthew's illness is Carbon Monoxide poisoning from the Thaxton home furnace

exhaust being situated too close to the fresh air intake (a situation that was

in place at the time they purchased the home in good faith). "

 

Situating an HVAC exhaust too close to a fresh air intake is a violation of

code, and " was overlooked by the installer, and the inspectors (if the

installation was done legally), and the home appraiser, and the real estate

agent, and the city meter readers. "

 

" You can't expect the average home owner to know something like that, " said

Thomas Rodgers, who was the one who identified " the true smoking gun in this

tragedy. " Rodgers was a dairyman before he became vegan following an instance

in which he was medically dead for several minutes. When he came to, the first

words he mustered were, " nothing else is to die that I might live. "

 

The petition warns the state that if they do not return the child, and clear the

parents of all charges levied against them in this case and in the case of their

son Dan Jr., and produce a sincere public apology, that they will launch a class

action law suit against the state, levying a charge of aggravated kidnapping.

 

The petition refers to the existence of other similar cases of the State's abuse

of power, such as the Parker Jenson case. Parker was taken from his parents

because they did not agree with a Doctor's insistence on performing chemotherapy

on their son.

 

It also warns Children's Primary Hospital that a malpractice law suit is in

order, saying that among its barrage of tests and false diagnosis, it did not

administer the " clearly indicated carboxy hemoglobin test, which would have

identified the true cause of malaise early on. "

 

If the state, the DCFS, and the hospital admit to their mistake and present

sincere public apologies and seek to assure that such abuses are not repeated in

the future, the petition calls upon the parents of Matthew Thaxton to forgive

them. Otherwise, it calls on them to invoke their remedies at law.

 

The petition was composed by Sterling D. Allan, of Patriot Saints for Parental

Rights, where a press release was published regarding the plight of the Thaxton

family. The site also features the Parker Jensen case, along with a chronology

of their internationally observed saga.

 

In the first 24 hours, the petition garnered nearly 60 signatures, posted on the

afternoon of Dec. 14.

 

The petition can be found online by typing " Matthew Thaxton " into Google. It is

presently the first link mentioned.

 

 

PETITION:

http://www.petitiononline.com/thaxton/petition.html

 

 

RELEVANT LINKS:

 

Tom Rodger's Coverage of the Thaxton case

http://www.lifesave.org/FamilyVsState.htm

 

Patriot Saints for Parental Rights

http://www.patriotsaints.com/MyChildMyChoice

 

Images of the HVAC set-up at the Thaxton home:

http://www.lifesave.org/HVAC.htm

 

Video of the Furnace Exhaust wafting into intake

http://www.xmission.com/~rasmusse/tom/video6-sm.mpg

 

 

ADDITIONAL CONTACT:

 

Thomas L. Rodgers <LifeSave

http://www.lifesave.org

PO Box 304, Bountiful Utah 84011-0304

801-298-9095 (24/7 home or cell)