Jove’s Garcon: Everyone needs to read the Charlie Gard Court statement and what it tells us about the careful process that has taken place

Jan Cosgrove
Jul 25, 2017 · 1 min read

by Jan Cosgrove

I urge everyone to read the court statement below about Charlie Gard carefully and completely. So much harm has been done by idiots with motives, harm to his parents, to staff at GOSH, and to the excellent NHS.

This is a world class paediatric hospital, they have done all they know for Charlie. Sometimes there are situations where even all that skill, care and, yes, Love cannot save a child’s life.

Every avenue has been explored that has gone before the court. The judge is right, we cannot begin to imagine what his parents have had to go through and we owe it to them not to compound their suffering with reckless comment/action, and anyone who thinks they have the right to threaten and abuse GOSH staff, well throw the book at them, before a judge.

Read the piece below in full, carefully, and have Charlie, his Mum and Dad, and all the GOSH people in our thoughts. Also the Judge who has had to weigh all matters in this impossible dilemma of a legal case and come to the decision no one has actually wanted because they like it.

No one else matters.

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