SLEEPY EYE, Minn. — The Daniel Hauser case took a dramatic turn Thursday afternoon when the boy’s father, speaking from the family farm, urged Colleen Hauser to end her three-day flight from the law and bring their son home.
“I know you’re scared,” Anthony Hauser said to a bank of television cameras. “I know that you left out of fear, maybe without thinking it all the way through. If you’re out there, please bring Danny home so we can decide as a family what Danny’s treatment should be.”
Daniel, 13, and his mother disappeared Monday evening, fleeing from court-ordered medical treatment for the boy’s Hodgkin’s lymphoma, an uncommon but treatable form of cancer, and triggering a nationwide manhunt.
Hauser’s plea came hours after a felony arrest warrant for deprivation of parental rights was issued for Colleen Hauser.
The statement was issued in cooperation with Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffmann, who met with Anthony Hauser on Thursday.
County Attorney James Olson, who filed the original petition for court intervention, supported the idea.
“My interest is not in prosecuting Colleen Hauser but in getting Danny home,” he said
California authorities, with assistance from the FBI, are investigating a sighting of the Hausers on Tuesday morning in Southern California.
