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NEW ULM, Minn. — The 13-year-old cancer-stricken boy who ran off with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy treatment has been entered into the network of National Missing & Exploited Children, said Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffman at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.
Daniel Hauser, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma, and his mother, Colleen, apparently left their southern Minnesota home sometime after a Monday doctor's appointment and X-ray showed his tumor had grown. Doctors say the chemotherapy is needed to save the boy's life.
"All I'm asking is that she come in and just do what the court ordered," Hoffman said. "This is not going to go away."
Hodgkin's lymphoma is considered highly curable with chemotherapy and radiation. Daniel's father, Anthony Hauser, said he does not know where his wife and son are.
He said he last saw his son Monday morning, and he saw his wife only briefly that evening when she said she was leaving "for a time. "I'd like to tell them to come back and be safe and be a family again," the boy's father, Anthony Hauser said during an interview posted on the Web site of KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Officials distributed the arrest warrant nationwide. Hoffman said Tuesday that investigators were following some leads locally, but declined to elaborate. A crime alert said the Hausers might be with Susan Daya, also known as Susan Hamwi, a California attorney who accompanied them to a medical appointment Monday, or with a man named Billy Joe Best.
Best appeared at a news conference held by the family in early May to say he supported the Hausers.
In 1994, Best — then a 16-year-old — ran away to avoid having more chemotherapy to fight his Hodgkin's disease. He returned after three weeks in Houston when his parents promised they would not force him to have the treatments.
Best has claimed his cancer was cured by natural remedies.
In an interview in Wednesday's editions of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Anthony Hauser said he knew places where his wife might have gone though he did not know where she was.
He said he and his wife had a plan for Tuesday's hearing and he was a "bit disappointed" she didn't follow it. "We were going to present a treatment plan to the court. If they didn't go with it, we would appeal it," he told the newspaper.
Daniel quit chemo after a single treatment. With his parents, he opted instead for "alternative medicines," citing religious beliefs. That led authorities to seek custody. Rodenberg last week ruled that Daniel's parents were medically neglecting their son.
Anthony Hauser also says he isn't against chemotherapy "if it's a necessary thing," but thinks doctors use it too much.
Daniel testified he believed the chemo would kill him and told the judge in private testimony unsealed later that if anyone tried to force him to take it, "I'd fight it. I'd punch them and I'd kick them."
The Hausers are Roman Catholic and also believe in the "do no harm" philosophy of the Nemenhah Band, a Missouri-based religious group that believes in natural healing methods advocated by some American Indians.
NEW ULM, Minn. — The 13-year-old cancer-stricken boy who ran off with his mother to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy treatment has been entered into the network of National Missing & Exploited Children, said Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffman at a press conference Tuesday afternoon.
Daniel Hauser, who has Hodgkin's lymphoma, and his mother, Colleen, apparently left their southern Minnesota home sometime after a Monday doctor's appointment and X-ray showed his tumor had grown. Doctors say the chemotherapy is needed to save the boy's life.
"All I'm asking is that she come in and just do what the court ordered," Hoffman said. "This is not going to go away."
Hodgkin's lymphoma is considered highly curable with chemotherapy and radiation. Daniel's father, Anthony Hauser, said he does not know where his wife and son are.
He said he last saw his son Monday morning, and he saw his wife only briefly that evening when she said she was leaving "for a time. "I'd like to tell them to come back and be safe and be a family again," the boy's father, Anthony Hauser said during an interview posted on the Web site of KARE 11 Minneapolis-St. Paul.
Officials distributed the arrest warrant nationwide. Hoffman said Tuesday that investigators were following some leads locally, but declined to elaborate. A crime alert said the Hausers might be with Susan Daya, also known as Susan Hamwi, a California attorney who accompanied them to a medical appointment Monday, or with a man named Billy Joe Best.
Best appeared at a news conference held by the family in early May to say he supported the Hausers.
In 1994, Best — then a 16-year-old — ran away to avoid having more chemotherapy to fight his Hodgkin's disease. He returned after three weeks in Houston when his parents promised they would not force him to have the treatments.
Best has claimed his cancer was cured by natural remedies.
In an interview in Wednesday's editions of the Star Tribune of Minneapolis, Anthony Hauser said he knew places where his wife might have gone though he did not know where she was.
He said he and his wife had a plan for Tuesday's hearing and he was a "bit disappointed" she didn't follow it. "We were going to present a treatment plan to the court. If they didn't go with it, we would appeal it," he told the newspaper.
Daniel quit chemo after a single treatment. With his parents, he opted instead for "alternative medicines," citing religious beliefs. That led authorities to seek custody. Rodenberg last week ruled that Daniel's parents were medically neglecting their son.
Anthony Hauser also says he isn't against chemotherapy "if it's a necessary thing," but thinks doctors use it too much.
Daniel testified he believed the chemo would kill him and told the judge in private testimony unsealed later that if anyone tried to force him to take it, "I'd fight it. I'd punch them and I'd kick them."
The Hausers are Roman Catholic and also believe in the "do no harm" philosophy of the Nemenhah Band, a Missouri-based religious group that believes in natural healing methods advocated by some American Indians.
