Care for the little girl, aged eight months, was “discontinued following Friday’s appeals court decision,” the Christian group said in a press release.
Continuing treatment “in vain and painful”
The parents of little Indi Gregory have been fighting for months against British doctors who recommended interrupting care to keep their baby, who suffered from an incurable mitochondrial disease, alive.
Doctors at the Nottingham hospital where the child was treated claimed that further treatment would be futile and painful, which Dean Gregory and Claire Staniforth rejected.
In this photo taken in September 2023, Indi Gregory’s parents surround their baby, a little girl with a terminal illness.
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On Friday, the courts decided in a final hearing that the termination of care should take place in a medical facility and not, as desired, with the parents.
“Indi was taken from the hospital by ambulance with a security escort” to a “hospice,” according to Christian Concern, which adds that she “stopped breathing last night and then started breathing again.”
A diplomatic twist
The matter took a diplomatic turn when Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni – whose far-right party promotes traditional Catholic family values - intervened directly and granted the baby Italian citizenship at the last minute.
But on Wednesday, an English High Court judge ruled that Rome’s intervention did not change previous decisions.
There is no treatment for mitochondrial diseases, which are genetic and prevent the body’s cells from producing energy.