The act of stealing someone’s child over medical decisions happens so often that there is a term for it: medical kidnapping.
“When you separate a parent from a child based on medical reasons—to me that’s concerning,” said Christina.
Christina had no ill intentions in mind when seeking out alternative treatments and explained that her daughter’s chemotherapy was agonizing and all she did was suffer.
“The best way I can describe it is like my kid was on death row,” said Christina. “Every single time—you literally feel your kid’s life getting taken away.”
They stuck out the chemotherapy for six months, but it was far too painful and evidently not working. So, they both made the decision to stop it and seek a different treatment.
“I couldn’t do it anymore and my daughter wanted to go home. She had enough too. She begged me to take her home before they did more chemo,” said Christina.
In June of 2018, Kylee left the hospital and began her natural treatment using vitamins, herbs, and pure CBD oil for the cancer. And, according to the family, it worked.
“It started reversing her tumor for the first time,” said Christina, who claimed the tumor reduced in size by 90% during the past year.
“My daughter’s cancer has not spread. And no, she hasn’t had chemotherapy or any other treatments for the last 11 months,” explained Christina. “She is thriving, surviving and doing better than ever.”
Despite the dramatic improvement in Kylee’s health after they abandoned chemotherapy, the state still felt it necessary to intervene. In June, they came looking for the mother and daughter, with police claiming Christina had kindapped her own daughter and was treating her against her will. All of this, of course, was lies, according to Christina.
On June 10, 2019, the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office issued bulletin titled, “MISSING/ENDANGERED JUVENILE.” The alert included photos of Kylee Dixon and her mother, Christina along with a description of a car they might be driving, as KGW8 reports.
“Kylee is in need of medical attention. Christine may have absconded with Kylee after failing to abide by court orders to follow through with necessary medical care for Kylee,” the police bulletin read. “If you know where these individuals are at this time, call 911.”
Police were treating this family like criminals, all because they were seeking to treat their cancer in an alternative way—which happened to be working. Nevertheless, to “protect” Kylee, when police finally caught up with them, they kidnapped her. Then, last week, while fighting to get her daughter back, Christine was kidnapped as well and thrown in a cage. She was charged with two counts each of first-degree custodial interference and first-degree criminal mistreatment at the Clackamas County Jail, according to FOX 12.
A reporter from FOX 12 spoke with Christina last week and asked if she ever thought she’d be in jail over this incident.
