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IN INTEREST OF W.M.

No. 59762.

823 S.W.2d 128 (1992)

In the Interest of W.M., Jr.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Division Four.

January 28, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blair Drazic, Creve Coeur and Max W. Custer, Jr., Kell, Custer, Weller, Miller & Flach, St. Louis, for appellants.

John S. Sandberg and Roger K. Rea, Sandberg, Phoenix & von Gontard, St. Louis, for St. Louis Children's Hosp.

John T. McCaffrey, St. Louis, for respondent, Juvenile officer.

Donald T. Ridley, Brooklyn, N.Y., for amicus curiae Watchtower Bible and Tract Soc. of New York, Inc.

SMITH, Presiding Judge.

Parents appeal, individually and on behalf of their son, W.M., Jr., born April 20, 1974.1 Section 211.261 RSMo 1986. W.M., Jr. has a sub-form of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia, T-cell variety. Mother and W.M., Jr. are Jehovah's Witnesses and object to the use of blood transfusions.2

On December 11, 1990, the Honorable Robert G. Dowd, Jr., entered the following ex parte...

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