NEW ULM, Minn. — A 13-year-old cancer patient and his mother, who fled Minnesota last week to avoid court-ordered chemotherapy for him, returned voluntarily Monday, and the boy was being evaluated by a doctor, said a sheriff and the family’s attorney.
Daniel Hauser was “immediately checked over medically” when he and his mother arrived on a charter flight at 3 a.m., said Brown County Sheriff Rich Hoffmann.
Brown County Attorney James Olson said he probably would dismiss the felony complaint against Colleen Hauser because she returned voluntarily. E.K. Wilson, Minneapolis spokesman for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said a federal charge of unauthorized flight also is apt to be dropped.
On a video released by the Sheriff’s Department, Colleen Hauser described how the first chemotherapy treatment Daniel had for Hodgkin’s lymphoma made him sick, and she said that he planned to run away from home.
“Then what do I have? I mean, he was going to run,” Hauser said. “And that just broke my heart. ”
Hauser expresses optimism that her son can beat cancer, but the video doesn’t disclose where they were or when it was made.
Hoffmann did not say where the pair have been since they missed a court hearing Tuesday, but authorities had focused the search on Southern California and its proximity to a number of alternative cancer clinics in northern Mexico.
