US police look for girl after mom takes her from hospital

Associated Press : Wed Dec 05 2012, 00:44 hrs

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AUTHORITIES are looking for an 11-year-old girl with leukemia and a heart catheter who they say may die in a matter of days if she isn't brought back to a hospital after her parents inexplicably took her out of the facility last week.

The girl, Emily, had been receiving chemotherapy at Phoenix Children's Hospital for about a month, Phoenix police Sgt. Steve Martos said Monday.

An infection forced doctors to amputate her right arm and insert a catheter in her heart. The device was set to be taken out before her mother removed an IV from the girl, changed her clothes and walked her out of the hospital Wednesday night.

"If she contracts an infection, it really could just be a matter of days that could result in the young girl's death," Martos said. "It's pretty serious."

Authorities had been stymied by health privacy laws that kept them from releasing the parents' names, but police Monday said US Border Patrol stopped the girl's father, Luis Bracamontes, 46, as he crossed into Arizona from Mexico over the weekend.

Police released his name, along with that of the girl's mother, Norma Bracamontes, 35, in hopes it will help locate the child.

Authorities speculate the parents may have been concerned about paying the bill.

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