RIP Indi Gregory - 8 Month Old Baby Dies in the UK after her Life Support is removed and a Court Refuses Vatican Hospital's Offer for Care
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The baby Indi Gregory, from the United Kingdom, has died after a British hospital yanked her life support over her parents’ objections and after a court rejected their plea to let her live.
A UK appeals court ruled that the hospital could proceed with removing Indi’s lifesaving medical care despite her parents efforts to send her to a Vatican hospital that offered provide it. The hospital removed her life support on Sunday, November 12th, and Indi died on Monday.
The 8-month-old Indi Gregory died in her mother’s arms in a hospice at 1:45 a.m. on November 13th, according to British advocacy group Christian Concern. She was born on February 24, 2023.
Pope Francis sent a message of prayer and closeness to the family.
Indi’s parents said they “are angry, heartbroken and ashamed. The NHS and the Courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi’s dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged.”
“Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges and the Trust. The whole world is watching and is shocked at how we have been treated,” the child’s father, Dean Gregory, said.
Indi suffered from a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease. She had been receiving life-sustaining treatment on a ventilator at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, England.
A Vatican hospital had agreed to provide care for 8-month-old baby Indi Gregory, but a British court ruled her life support could be revoked even though her parents are fighting for her life.
Indi’s parents got her baptized after the UK appeals court decision.
Indi’s parents, who are not religious, arranged for their daughter baptized, saying they have seen the “pull of hell” in this fight with the courts denying their daughter the care and blocking their efforts to transport Indi to a Vatican hospital for appropriate care and treatment.
“When I was in the court, I felt as if Hell pulled at me,” said Dean Gregory, Indi’s dad. “I thought that if Hell exists, then Heaven must exist too.”
“It was like the devil was there,” he told an Italian newspaper. “I thought that if the devil exists, then God must exist too.”
“I have seen what hell is like and I want Indi to go to heaven.”
The father, Dean says that he’s decided he would also be baptized. “We want to be protected in this life, and go to heaven.”
Dean praised the testimony of a Christian volunteer who has visited Indi every day, and who told him that baptism “opens Heaven’s gates.” He also noted the work of his legal team provided by the Christian Legal Centre.
Indi had been receiving life-sustaining treatment on a ventilator at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, England.
Dean Gregory, said: “Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges and the Trust. The whole world is watching and is shocked at how we have been treated.
“Claire and I have always wanted what is in Indi’s best interests. She has human rights and we wanted her to have the best treatment possible. If the UK did not want to fund it, why can she not go to Italy and receive the treatment and care which the amazing Italian Prime Minister and government has offered.
The pro-life legal group Christian Concern, which represented the Gregory family, also condemned the ruling.
“The ruling was made despite Indi being granted Italian citizenship and yesterday her Italian guardian making an urgent application to UK High Court calling on Mr Justice Robert Peel to cede jurisdiction of the case to him under Article 9§2 of the 1996 Hague Convention,” it told LifeNews.
The Italian Prime Minister has been public in her support of Indi Gregory and the right of her parents to access treatment in Rome and the British Prime Minister has remained silent.
Indi’s parents said they “are angry, heartbroken and ashamed. The NHS and the Courts not only took away her chance to live a longer life, but they also took away Indi’s dignity to pass away in the family home where she belonged.”
“Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges and the Trust. The whole world is watching and is shocked at how we have been treated,” the child’s father, Dean Gregory, said.
Indi suffered from a rare degenerative mitochondrial disease. She had been receiving life-sustaining treatment on a ventilator at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, England.
A Vatican hospital had agreed to provide care for 8-month-old baby Indi Gregory, but a British court ruled her life support could be revoked even though her parents are fighting for her life.
Indi’s parents got her baptized after the UK appeals court decision.
Indi’s parents, who are not religious, arranged for their daughter baptized, saying they have seen the “pull of hell” in this fight with the courts denying their daughter the care and blocking their efforts to transport Indi to a Vatican hospital for appropriate care and treatment.
“When I was in the court, I felt as if Hell pulled at me,” said Dean Gregory, Indi’s dad. “I thought that if Hell exists, then Heaven must exist too.”
“It was like the devil was there,” he told an Italian newspaper. “I thought that if the devil exists, then God must exist too.”
“I have seen what hell is like and I want Indi to go to heaven.”
The father, Dean says that he’s decided he would also be baptized. “We want to be protected in this life, and go to heaven.”
Dean praised the testimony of a Christian volunteer who has visited Indi every day, and who told him that baptism “opens Heaven’s gates.” He also noted the work of his legal team provided by the Christian Legal Centre.
Indi had been receiving life-sustaining treatment on a ventilator at the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham, England.
Dean Gregory, said: “Claire and I are again disgusted by another one-sided decision from the judges and the Trust. The whole world is watching and is shocked at how we have been treated.
“Claire and I have always wanted what is in Indi’s best interests. She has human rights and we wanted her to have the best treatment possible. If the UK did not want to fund it, why can she not go to Italy and receive the treatment and care which the amazing Italian Prime Minister and government has offered.
The pro-life legal group Christian Concern, which represented the Gregory family, also condemned the ruling.
“The ruling was made despite Indi being granted Italian citizenship and yesterday her Italian guardian making an urgent application to UK High Court calling on Mr Justice Robert Peel to cede jurisdiction of the case to him under Article 9§2 of the 1996 Hague Convention,” it told LifeNews.
The Italian Prime Minister has been public in her support of Indi Gregory and the right of her parents to access treatment in Rome and the British Prime Minister has remained silent.
Edited from LifeNews
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