http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29009883
Shocking story in the news at the moment about a child, Ashya King, who was taken out of the country by his parents against medical advice to seek a treatment not available in the UK on the NHS - and the parents have been arrested in Spain.
Ashya, 5 years old, has a brain tumour. The parents want as medical treatment "proton beam therapy" that is not available in the UK under the NHS (it will be in a few years time but not currently). The NHS in certain circumstance will pay for it to be done in America but apparently not for Ashya. His parents have taken him out of the hospital against medical advice to Spain where they have a family home which they are selling to privately fund cancer treatment to be done in Prague in the Czech Republic. The council unhappy that the child was pulled out of the hospital against medical advice have got the court to make the child a ward of the state and the parents have been arrested in Spain.
I find it terribly bizarre to see people arrested when no crime has been commited. Furthermore I think the parents ought to be able to make the final decision seek treatment that is medically sound and unavailable in this country. Its not like they're refusing medical treatment altogether and there doesn't seem to be any suggestion that proton beam therapy is unsound medically (not like people relying on prayers or some other nonsense to cure cancer).