{"id":64305,"date":"2018-04-28T06:13:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-28T06:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=64305"},"modified":"2018-04-28T06:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T06:13:55","slug":"call-god-american-pro-lifers-role-alfie-evans-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/call-god-american-pro-lifers-role-alfie-evans-battle.html","title":{"rendered":"Call from God’: American pro-lifer’s role in Alfie Evans battle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Call from God’: American pro-lifer’s role in Alfie Evans battle<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Within days of the death of 11-month-old Charlie Gard last July, a Christian missionary in Rome spotted a Facebook post about a baby named Alfie Evans. The post by Alfie\u2019s father, Thomas Evans, explained that his 13-month-old son had a degenerative neurological condition and that doctors wanted to switch off his life-support. His case, unlike the plight of Charlie Gard, was little known outside Liverpool. That soon changed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Christine Broesamle, an American \u201cpro-life\u201d activist based in Italy, got in touch with Evans. Her friends were advising Charlie\u2019s parents about flying him to Italy for treatment, she said, and the same could be done for Alfie. Unsurprisingly, Evans took up her offer of help.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a month of working on the case from Rome, Broesamle answered what she described as a call from God and moved to Liverpool. Since last September she has lived in Merseyside and played a key role behind the scenes, advising Alfie\u2019s parents.<\/span><\/p>\n

This week in an interview with a Christian fundamentalist radio station in the US, she said there should be riots in Britain over Alfie\u2019s treatment by doctors at Alder Hey hospital, whom she accused of being \u201chellbent\u201d on killing him \u201cto cover something up\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

A source close to the case has told the Guardian that Broesamle arranged for doctors to fly in from overseas to pose as family friends and medically examine Alfie. A paediatric oncologist, Dr Katarzyna Jakowska, and a colleague allegedly assessed both Alfie Evans and Isaiah Haastrup, a one-year-old child at the centre of a similar life-support battle, on the same day at different hospitals under the guise of being family friends.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broesamle\u2019s role, and that of a Russian law student, can be revealed after a fraught week of unsuccessful appeals to courts, protests by hundreds of supporters and \u201cunprecedented\u201d personal abuse of medical staff on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the arguments have raged, Alfie has defied the bleakest forecasts and survived without his ventilator since Monday night. Evans and Kate James, Alfie\u2019s mother, who spends hours cuddling her boy in his hospital bed, now want to take the terminally ill child home for the first time in 16 months.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Wednesday appeal court judges called for a wider investigation into concerns that the parents\u2019 legal representation \u201cmay have been infiltrated or compromised\u201d. The Guardian has learned that an international network of Catholic fundamentalists has played a growing role in advising Alfie\u2019s parents, including organising Evans\u2019 audience with the pope last week, arranging a string of medical experts to assess Alfie, and replacing the family\u2019s Liverpool-based legal team with the anti-LGBT Christian Legal Centre this month.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broesamle, who was named in court this week after six months of keeping out of the spotlight in Britain, is connected to the Italian \u201cpro-lifer\u201d network Giuristi per la Vita (Lawyers for Life), whose president has spoken about \u201csecretly\u201d advising Charlie Gard\u2019s parents before his death on 28 July last year. The group works closely with the Italian lawyer Bruno Quintavalle, who has acted for the families of both Alfie Evans and Isaiah Haastrup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Another source says Broesamle had access to a \u201cseemingly endless pit of money and contacts\u201d, and her network arranged for air ambulances to be ready at a moment\u2019s notice to whisk Alfie from Alder Hey to the Vatican-approved Bambino Ges\u00f9 hospital in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Broesamle arranged for Alfie\u2019s assessment by Dr Matthias H\u00fcbner, a medical director of the paediatric air ambulance in Munich, Germany, which the high court heard had taken place \u201cin a clandestine manner, [H\u00fcbner] posing as a friend of the family\u201d. H\u00fcbner was said by the judge to have fallen \u201cso far below the standards expected of his profession\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Evans has credited Broesamle with organising the audience with the pope, but sources close to her say the meeting was arranged by two journalists from La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, a Catholic newspaper whose coverage has been critical of the hospital and courts.<\/span><\/p>\n

When contacted by the Guardian, Broesamle declined to speak on the record about the case, saying \u201cone wrong move and it goes nuts and the hospital really hates me because I\u2019ve worked so hard for Alfie\u2019s defence\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

Those close to her have been angered by the UK media\u2019s coverage of the case, and they directed the Guardian to the Catholic fundamentalist website Church Militant, which on Thursday published an article about the high court judge in Alfie\u2019s case, Mr Justice Hayden, pointing out that he was \u201ca pro-gay advocate and member of the Bar Lesbian and Gay Group (BLAGG), a network of gay lawyers in the United Kingdom\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

In court, Pavel Stroilov, the Christian Legal Centre law student representing Alfie\u2019s parents, came in for the most searing criticism this week. He was described by Hayden as a \u201cfanatical and deluded young man\u201d whose submissions to the court were \u201clittered with vituperation and bile\u201d that was \u201cinconsistent with the real interests of the parents\u2019 case\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Russian exile who has worked as a researcher for the current Ukip leader, Gerard Batten, since 2011, Stroilov was behind the attempt by Alfie\u2019s parents to pursue a private prosecution for murder against three Alder Hey doctors.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is understood that Alder Hey\u2019s legal team is considering pursuing a contempt of court case against Stroilov unless he provides details of his legal qualifications. \u201cThere are grave concerns about the wholly misleading advice that was provided by Mr Stroilov,\u201d said a source close to Alder Hey\u2019s legal team. Stroilov did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian Legal Centre described the media and judicial criticism of its role in the case as \u201cunfair and detrimental\u201d. It said it rejected the \u201cprejudicial and inflammatory\u201d comments by Hayden and it did not support the criminal prosecution of doctors involved in Alfie\u2019s care.<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday night, Evans struck a more conciliatory tone when he appeared outside Alder Hey and praised the \u201cdignity and professionalism\u201d of Alfie\u2019s doctors, with whom he said he wanted to \u201cbuild bridges\u201d so his son could be brought home. People close to the case are hopeful Evans will now turn his back on those described by Hayden as a \u201cmalign\u201d influence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/apr\/28\/call-from-god-american-pro-lifers-role-in-alfie-evans-battle<\/span><\/p>\n

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